LNC vs. UNM, PRI, CNO, CIA, AFL, MET, PRU, PUK, CRBG, and RGA
Should you be buying Lincoln National stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lincoln National include Unum Group (UNM), Primerica (PRI), CNO Financial Group (CNO), Citizens (CIA), Aflac (AFL), MetLife (MET), Prudential Financial (PRU), Prudential (PUK), Corebridge Financial (CRBG), and Reinsurance Group of America (RGA). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Lincoln National vs.
Lincoln National (NYSE:LNC) and Unum Group (NYSE:UNM) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, risk, community ranking and dividends.
Lincoln National currently has a consensus target price of $33.40, suggesting a potential upside of 0.80%. Unum Group has a consensus target price of $75.45, suggesting a potential upside of 0.58%. Given Lincoln National's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Lincoln National is more favorable than Unum Group.
Lincoln National pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. Unum Group pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Lincoln National pays out 128.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Unum Group pays out 18.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Unum Group has raised its dividend for 16 consecutive years.
72.8% of Lincoln National shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.6% of Unum Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Lincoln National shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Unum Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Unum Group has higher revenue and earnings than Lincoln National. Unum Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lincoln National, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lincoln National has a beta of 1.78, indicating that its stock price is 78% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Unum Group has a beta of 0.81, indicating that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Unum Group had 7 more articles in the media than Lincoln National. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Unum Group and 11 mentions for Lincoln National. Unum Group's average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat Lincoln National's score of 0.33 indicating that Unum Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Lincoln National received 88 more outperform votes than Unum Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 50.73% of users gave Lincoln National an outperform vote while only 47.38% of users gave Unum Group an outperform vote.
Unum Group has a net margin of 13.76% compared to Lincoln National's net margin of 2.51%. Lincoln National's return on equity of 18.15% beat Unum Group's return on equity.
Summary
Unum Group beats Lincoln National on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:LNC) was last updated on 1/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
