In a report issued on September 13, Suneet Kamath from Citigroup maintained a Hold rating on Prudential Financial Inc (PRU), with a price target of $88. The company’s shares closed last Monday at $89.82.
According to TipRanks.com, Kamath is a 3-star analyst with an average return of 3.5% and a 52.6% success rate. Kamath covers the Financial sector, focusing on stocks such as Brighthouse Financial Inc, Ameriprise Financial, and FGL Holdings.
The word on The Street in general, suggests a Moderate Buy analyst consensus rating for Prudential Financial Inc with a $100.50 average price target, an 11.8% upside from current levels. In a report issued on September 6, UBS also maintained a Hold rating on the stock with a $84 price target.
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Prudential Financial Inc’s market cap is currently $36.11B and has a P/E ratio of 9.15. The company has a Price to Book ratio of 0.59.
Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 24 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is positive on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders buying their shares of PRU in relation to earlier this year.
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Prudential Financial, Inc. engages in the provision of financial products and services including life insurance, annuities, mutual funds, and investment management to both individual and institutional customers. It operates through the following segments: U.S. Individual Solutions, U.S. Workplace Solutions, PGIM, International Insurance, Closed Block, and Corporate and Others. The U.S. Individual Solutions segment consists of individual annuities and individual life products. The U.S. Workplace Solutions segment comprises of the retirement and group insurance divisions. The PGIM segment provides a broad array of asset management and advisory services related to public and private fixed income, public equity and real estate, commercial mortgage origination and servicing, and mutual funds and other retail services to institutional, private and sub-advisory clients (including mutual funds), insurance company separate accounts, government sponsored entities and the Company’s general account. The International Insurances segment manufactures and distributes individual life insurance, retirement, and related products to the mass affluent and affluent markets in Japan, Korea, and other foreign countries through its Life Planner operations. The Closed Block segment includes certain in force participating insurance and annuity products and corresponding assets that are used for the payment of benefits, expenses and policyholders’ dividends related to these products. The Corporate and Other Operations segment include corporate item or businesses that have been or will be divested. The company was founded by John Fairfield Dryden in 1875 and is headquartered in Newark, NJ.
