Voya Financial (VOYA) Competitors

Prudential (NYSE:PUK) and Voya Financial (NYSE:VOYA) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, dividends and profitability.

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, PUK or VOYA?

Prudential has higher revenue and earnings than Voya Financial.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Prudential	$19.50B	1.21	$1.70B	N/A	N/A
Voya Financial	$8.05B	0.86	$667M	$6.12	11.76

Is PUK or VOYA a better dividend stock?

Prudential pays an annual dividend of $0.27 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Voya Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Voya Financial pays out 29.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Is PUK or VOYA more profitable?

Voya Financial has a net margin of 8.29% compared to Prudential's net margin of 0.00%. Voya Financial's return on equity of 14.10% beat Prudential's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Prudential	N/A	N/A	N/A
Voya Financial	8.29%	14.10%	0.51%

Which has more risk & volatility, PUK or VOYA?

Prudential has a beta of 1.2, meaning that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Voya Financial has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in PUK or VOYA?

Voya Financial received 160 more outperform votes than Prudential when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.70% of users gave Voya Financial an outperform vote while only 61.66% of users gave Prudential an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Prudential	Outperform Votes 452 61.66%	Underperform Votes 281 38.34%
Voya Financial	Outperform Votes 612 67.70%	Underperform Votes 292 32.30%

Do insiders & institutionals believe in PUK or VOYA?

1.9% of Prudential shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.1% of Voya Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Prudential shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Voya Financial shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Do analysts rate PUK or VOYA?

Voya Financial has a consensus target price of $82.55, suggesting a potential upside of 14.70%. Given Voya Financial's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Voya Financial is more favorable than Prudential.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Prudential	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
Voya Financial	0 Sell rating(s)	7 Hold rating(s)	5 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.54

Does the media favor PUK or VOYA?

In the previous week, Voya Financial had 2 more articles in the media than Prudential. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Voya Financial and 4 mentions for Prudential. Prudential's average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat Voya Financial's score of 1.02 indicating that Prudential is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Prudential	3 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Voya Financial	3 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

Voya Financial beats Prudential on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.