Verdict: Side-by-side breakdown using the Bull Rankings model. SLF scored 73.0, PLGO scored 78.0 — PLGO leads.
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Different reporting periods. SLF's fundamentals are as of June 2026, but PLGO's are as of December 2025 — a 6-month gap. Growth, margin and valuation figures below therefore describe different windows and aren't strictly like-for-like.
SLF
Sun Life Financial Inc.
Insurance - Diversified · Financial strength
59.1Fin
$77.87 · $43.3B
fundamentals as of
Strength gap
20.0
PLGO leads
PLGO
Pelagos Insurance Capital Limit
Insurance - Diversified · Financial strength
79.1Fin
$24.66 · $2.0B
fundamentals as of
At a glance · who leads each dimension, on the model's own rules
CheapestPLGO6.1x
Fastest growthSLF+11.5%
Side by side · every name on one set of axes
Growth against the P/E multiple. Up and to the right is cheaper and faster — the quality-growth idea in one picture. Points beyond the axis are pinned to the edge and marked off-scale rather than allowed to compress everything else.
Fundamentals, head-to-head
SLF
PLGO
+11.5%B
Rev
+2.9%C
18.2xC
P/E
6.1xA
13.1%B
ROE
17.6%B+
2.45C+
P/B
0.92A-
3.5%B+
Yield
2.5%B
Winner per row is the stronger grade; where grades tie, the better figure breaks it. A true tie or a missing value shows no highlight.
The companies
SLFSun Life Financial Inc.
Insurance - Diversified · $77.87 · beta 0.79
Why now
Insurance - Diversified · market cap $43.3b. 8% off the 52-week high of $84.38. Revenue growing +11%, comfortably above the S&P median.
Moat
ROE 13% meets the long-run market sustainable threshold — solid but not differentiated; the durability comes from elsewhere. Financial moat — scale of deposit base / underwriting franchise plus regulatory capital advantages. The largest players compound book value through cycles that erase smaller competitors.
Risk
Balance-sheet financial — book value, net interest margin, and credit loss provisions are the lever points; a rates regime change or a deterioration in the loan book moves the stock more than EPS does.
PLGOPelagos Insurance Capital Limit
Insurance - Diversified · $24.66 · beta 0.29
Why now
Insurance - Diversified · market cap $2.0b. 6% off the 52-week high of $26.34. PEG 0.21 — paying under fair value for the growth rate. 9 sell-side analysts rate this a Hold with a mean 1-yr target of $25.17 (implying +2% upside).
Moat
Net margin 16% beats the market median by a meaningful margin — the company is keeping more of every revenue dollar than the average S&P constituent. ROE 18% is above 15% — the equity base is compounding at a rate the market struggles to discount accurately. Financial moat — scale of deposit base / underwriting franchise plus regulatory capital advantages. The largest players compound book value through cycles that erase smaller competitors.
Risk
Balance-sheet financial — book value, net interest margin, and credit loss provisions are the lever points; a rates regime change or a deterioration in the loan book moves the stock more than EPS does.
Verdict — model-derived comparison
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Common questions
Is PLGO or SLF the better stock?
PLGO scores higher: PLGO 78.0, SLF 73.0 out of 100 on the Bull Rankings quality-growth score, which blends business quality, growth and valuation into one number. A higher score means a stronger business at a more reasonable price — it is not a price target or a recommendation.
How are PLGO and SLF scored?
Each carries the same 0–100 quality-growth score used everywhere on the site, built from three pillars — quality (profitability and returns on capital), growth (revenue and earnings), and value (what you pay for them) — combined as a geometric mean, so a weak pillar cannot be papered over by a strong one.
How current is this comparison?
The whole universe is re-scored every trading day after the US market close, so the scores and fundamentals here reflect the latest published edition.