Prudential Financial Lags Industry, Trades at a Discount: Time to Hold?

Key Takeaways PRU is seeing strong demand for retirement products as U.S. aging trends boost long-term growth. Prudential Financial is expanding in Japan, Brazil and Malaysia to drive international earnings growth. PRU faces capital strain from annuities and lower sales tied to product repricing and reserve accretion. Shares of Prudential Financial Inc. (PRU) have lost 6.4% in the past year, underperforming the industry’s growth of 0.9%.The insurer has a market capitalization of $36.40 billion. The average ...