VOYA vs. PRI, GL, JXN, FG, LNC, AEL, BHF, GNW, RGA, and AEG Should you be buying Voya Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Voya Financial include Primerica (PRI), Globe Life (GL), Jackson Financial (JXN), F&G Annuities & Life (FG), Lincoln National (LNC), American Equity Investment Life (AEL), Brighthouse Financial (BHF), Genworth Financial (GNW), Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), and Aegon (AEG). These companies are all part of the "life insurance" industry.
Primerica (NYSE:PRI ) and Voya Financial (NYSE:VOYA ) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.
90.9% of Primerica shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.1% of Voya Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Primerica 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.
Primerica has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Voya Financial has a beta of 1.06, suggesting that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Primerica currently has a consensus target price of $245.50, suggesting a potential upside of 7.64%. Voya Financial has a consensus target price of $83.44, suggesting a potential upside of 11.56%. Given Primerica's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Voya Financial is more favorable than Primerica.
Primerica has a net margin of 20.44% compared to Primerica's net margin of 10.48%. Voya Financial's return on equity of 27.35% beat Primerica's return on equity.
In the previous week, Primerica had 8 more articles in the media than Voya Financial. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Primerica and 5 mentions for Voya Financial. Primerica's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Voya Financial's score of 0.67 indicating that Voya Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Primerica pays an annual dividend of $3.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Voya Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Primerica pays out 18.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Voya Financial pays out 22.7% 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. Primerica has raised its dividend for 15 consecutive years and Voya Financial has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Primerica received 227 more outperform votes than Voya Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.93% of users gave Primerica an outperform vote while only 67.71% of users gave Voya Financial an outperform vote.
Voya Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Primerica. Voya Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Primerica, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary Primerica beats Voya Financial on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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