Prudential Financial Inc (PRU): Today's Featured Financial Laggard
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China Housing & Land Development
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Prudential Financial, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides various financial products and services, including life insurance, annuities, retirement-related services, mutual funds, and investment management services in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Prudential Financial has a market cap of $24.03 billion and is part of the insurance industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 20.6, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 3.8% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are 13 analysts that rate Prudential Financial a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and four rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates Prudential Financial as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its reasonable valuation levels, good cash flow from operations and increase in stock price during the past year. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including deteriorating net income, disappointing return on equity and poor profit margins.
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