SLF vs. CB, MFC, WTW, PUK, PFG, CRBG, RYAN, EQH, EG, and AEG
Should you be buying Sun Life Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sun Life Financial include Chubb (CB), Manulife Financial (MFC), Willis Towers Watson Public (WTW), Prudential (PUK), Principal Financial Group (PFG), Corebridge Financial (CRBG), Ryan Specialty (RYAN), Equitable (EQH), Everest Group (EG), and Aegon (AEG). These companies are all part of the "insurance" industry.
Sun Life Financial vs.
Sun Life Financial (NYSE:SLF) and Chubb (NYSE:CB) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment and valuation.
Chubb has a consensus target price of $299.27, indicating a potential upside of 4.45%. Given Chubb's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Chubb is more favorable than Sun Life Financial.
In the previous week, Chubb had 48 more articles in the media than Sun Life Financial. MarketBeat recorded 52 mentions for Chubb and 4 mentions for Sun Life Financial. Chubb's average media sentiment score of 1.09 beat Sun Life Financial's score of 1.03 indicating that Chubb is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Chubb has a net margin of 16.63% compared to Sun Life Financial's net margin of 8.08%. Sun Life Financial's return on equity of 16.86% beat Chubb's return on equity.
Sun Life Financial pays an annual dividend of $2.31 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Chubb pays an annual dividend of $3.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Sun Life Financial pays out 60.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Chubb pays out 16.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Chubb has increased its dividend for 31 consecutive years.
52.3% of Sun Life Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.8% of Chubb shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Chubb shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Chubb has higher revenue and earnings than Sun Life Financial. Chubb is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sun Life Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Chubb received 237 more outperform votes than Sun Life Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.14% of users gave Chubb an outperform vote while only 62.23% of users gave Sun Life Financial an outperform vote.
Sun Life Financial has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chubb has a beta of 0.66, indicating that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Chubb beats Sun Life Financial on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:SLF) was last updated on 3/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
