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Brighthouse Financial vs Globe Life

BHF and GL side by side, both in life insurance. Figures are trailing twelve months unless noted, from SEC filings and end-of-day prices.

How BHF and GL compare

Globe Life is the larger company, worth 4.8 times as much as Brighthouse Financial ($12.2B against $2.5B).

On earnings, Brighthouse Financial is cheaper: it trades at 3.5× trailing earnings, against 10.6× for Globe Life.

Globe Life grew revenue faster over the last twelve months (5.2% versus 2.6% for Brighthouse Financial).

Globe Life keeps more of each dollar of sales as profit, with a net margin of 19.6% compared with 12.5% at Brighthouse Financial.

Globe Life pays a dividend yielding 0.79%; Brighthouse Financial does not pay one.

Globe Life scores higher on the StockData Score (14 against 7 for Brighthouse Financial), which adds up 30 checks on valuation, growth, past performance, financial health and dividends.

Key numbers

A dot marks the better figure where higher or lower is clearly better.

MetricBHFGL
Size and price
Market cap$2.5B$12.2B
Share price$43.92$159.08
Change, 1 year−5.1%20.8%
Change, 5 years−18.6%67.7%
Beta (5Y)1.080.56
Employees1,4003,695
StockData Score
Total score714 (better)
Valuation score5 (better)0
Growth score03 (better)
Performance score26 (better)
Health score01 (better)
Dividend score04 (better)
Valuation
P/E3.5× (better)10.6×
P/S0.4× (better)2.0×
P/B0.4× (better)2.0×
P/FCF–9.9×
PEG–0.66
FCF yield–10.1%
Fair value$85.00$149.24
Margin of safety48.3% (better)−6.6%
Growth
Revenue growth (TTM)2.6%5.2% (better)
Revenue growth, 5Y average−4.5%4.8% (better)
Net income growth (TTM)25.2% (better)13.8%
EPS growth (TTM)38.3% (better)20.4%
EPS growth, 5Y average–15.6%
Profitability
Net margin12.5%19.6% (better)
FCF margin–19.9%
Return on equity13.6%20.9% (better)
Financial health
Debt / equity–0.48
Altman Z-score0.030.89 (better)
Piotroski F-score67 (better)
Dividends and buybacks
Dividend yield–0.79%
Payout ratio–7.5%
Years of dividend growth–16
Dividend growth, 5Y average–7.6%
Buyback yield0.00%5.7% (better)
Shareholder yield0.00%6.5% (better)
Ownership
Held by institutions91.3%84.7%
Held by insiders1.4%0.87%
Insider net buying, 12 months–−$80.3M
Superinvestors holding–1
Short interest, % of float–2.8%

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