Voya Financial (VOYA) Competitors

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

Is PUK or VOYA a better dividend stock?

Prudential pays an annual dividend of $0.27 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Voya Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Voya Financial pays out 28.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Which has preferable earnings & 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	1.09	$1.70B	N/A	N/A
Voya Financial	$7.35B	0.92	$625M	$6.28	11.19

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of 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 insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Voya Financial shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Do analysts recommend PUK or VOYA?

Voya Financial has a consensus price target of $83.73, indicating a potential upside of 19.13%. 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)	6 Hold rating(s)	6 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.62

Does the media prefer PUK or VOYA?

In the previous week, Voya Financial had 3 more articles in the media than Prudential. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Voya Financial and 6 mentions for Prudential. Prudential's average media sentiment score of 1.21 beat Voya Financial's score of 0.86 indicating that Prudential is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Prudential	6 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Voya Financial	4 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	2 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has more volatility and risk, PUK or VOYA?

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

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in PUK or VOYA?

Voya Financial received 157 more outperform votes than Prudential when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.82% of users gave Voya Financial an outperform vote while only 61.75% of users gave Prudential an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Prudential	Outperform Votes 452 61.75%	Underperform Votes 280 38.25%
Voya Financial	Outperform Votes 609 67.82%	Underperform Votes 289 32.18%

Is PUK or VOYA more profitable?

Voya Financial has a net margin of 8.81% compared to Prudential's net margin of 0.00%. Voya Financial's return on equity of 15.09% beat Prudential's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Prudential	N/A	N/A	N/A
Voya Financial	8.81%	15.09%	0.55%

Summary

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