CIA vs. MET, AFL, PRU, UNM, PRI, LNC, AEL, CNO, NWLI, and VERY
Should you be buying Citizens stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Citizens include MetLife (MET), Aflac (AFL), Prudential Financial (PRU), Unum Group (UNM), Primerica (PRI), Lincoln National (LNC), American Equity Investment Life (AEL), CNO Financial Group (CNO), National Western Life Group (NWLI), and Vericity (VERY). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Citizens (NYSE:CIA) and MetLife (NYSE:MET) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
MetLife received 708 more outperform votes than Citizens when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.53% of users gave MetLife an outperform vote while only 59.45% of users gave Citizens an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Citizens had 1 more articles in the media than MetLife. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Citizens and 7 mentions for MetLife. MetLife's average media sentiment score of 0.47 beat Citizens' score of -0.42 indicating that MetLife is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
13.7% of Citizens shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.8% of MetLife shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Citizens shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of MetLife shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
MetLife has a consensus price target of $79.08, suggesting a potential upside of 9.27%. Given MetLife's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe MetLife is more favorable than Citizens.
Citizens has a net margin of 9.94% compared to MetLife's net margin of 3.50%. MetLife's return on equity of 20.39% beat Citizens' return on equity.
Citizens has a beta of 0.17, indicating that its share price is 83% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MetLife has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
MetLife has higher revenue and earnings than Citizens. Citizens 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 Citizens on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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