MET vs. PRU, MFC, SLF, PUK, CRBG, AEG, RGA, TFC, AIG, and IBKR
Should you be buying MetLife stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MetLife include Prudential Financial (PRU), Manulife Financial (MFC), Sun Life Financial (SLF), Prudential (PUK), Corebridge Financial (CRBG), Aegon (AEG), Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), Truist Financial (TFC), American International Group (AIG), and Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
MetLife (NYSE:MET) and Prudential Financial (NYSE:PRU) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations and dividends.
MetLife received 77 more outperform votes than Prudential Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.51% of users gave MetLife an outperform vote while only 65.00% of users gave Prudential Financial an outperform vote.
89.8% of MetLife shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.8% of Prudential Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of MetLife shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Prudential Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
MetLife presently has a consensus target price of $78.85, suggesting a potential upside of 6.23%. Prudential Financial has a consensus target price of $111.08, suggesting a potential downside of 8.43%. Given MetLife's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe MetLife is more favorable than Prudential Financial.
Prudential Financial has a net margin of 3.76% compared to MetLife's net margin of 3.50%. MetLife's return on equity of 20.39% beat Prudential Financial's return on equity.
In the previous week, MetLife had 2 more articles in the media than Prudential Financial. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for MetLife and 11 mentions for Prudential Financial. Prudential Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat MetLife's score of 0.41 indicating that Prudential Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
MetLife has a beta of 1.09, meaning that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Prudential Financial has a beta of 1.35, meaning that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
MetLife pays an annual dividend of $2.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Prudential Financial pays an annual dividend of $5.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. MetLife pays out 74.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Prudential Financial pays out 88.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Prudential Financial has lower revenue, but higher earnings than MetLife. Prudential Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MetLife, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
MetLife beats Prudential Financial on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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