BNRE vs. AIZ, IGIC, BAMR, HALL, EQR, FCNCA, IRM, KB, STT, and LPLA
Should you be buying Brookfield Reinsurance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield Reinsurance include Assurant (AIZ), International General Insurance (IGIC), Brookfield Asset Management Reinsurance Partners (BAMR), Hallmark Financial Services (HALL), Equity Residential (EQR), First Citizens BancShares (FCNCA), Iron Mountain (IRM), KB Financial Group (KB), State Street (STT), and LPL Financial (LPLA). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Assurant (NYSE:AIZ) and Brookfield Reinsurance (NYSE:BNRE) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings and risk.
Assurant has a net margin of 6.73% compared to Assurant's net margin of 0.08%. Brookfield Reinsurance's return on equity of 20.08% beat Assurant's return on equity.
In the previous week, Assurant had 2 more articles in the media than Brookfield Reinsurance. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Assurant and 2 mentions for Brookfield Reinsurance. Brookfield Reinsurance's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Assurant's score of 1.00 indicating that Assurant is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Assurant has a beta of 0.53, indicating that its share price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brookfield Reinsurance has a beta of 1.55, indicating that its share price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Brookfield Reinsurance has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Assurant. Assurant is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brookfield Reinsurance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Assurant received 285 more outperform votes than Brookfield Reinsurance when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.58% of users gave Assurant an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Brookfield Reinsurance an outperform vote.
Assurant pays an annual dividend of $2.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Brookfield Reinsurance pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Assurant pays out 20.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Brookfield Reinsurance pays out 110.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Assurant has increased its dividend for 20 consecutive years. Assurant is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
92.7% of Assurant shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.2% of Brookfield Reinsurance shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Assurant shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Brookfield Reinsurance shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Assurant currently has a consensus target price of $200.25, suggesting a potential upside of 15.44%. Given Brookfield Reinsurance's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Assurant is more favorable than Brookfield Reinsurance.
Summary
Assurant beats Brookfield Reinsurance on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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