PRUDENTIAL FINANCIAL INC
At today's price, PRUDENTIAL FINANCIAL INC (PRU) is priced for 12.2% return on equity. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
- At about $107 the stock trades near 1.2 times book and implies a sustained return on equity of roughly 11.5%, just above the 11% it has recently earned. Every valuation family supports the price, so this is a value and asset-backed name, not a growth bet. - The live overhang is Japan. Prudential's Japanese arm has suspended new sales after employee misconduct, the freeze now runs into November 2026, and management has withdrawn its growth target and flagged a pretax hit of roughly $525 million
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1,317 institutional managers reported holding PRU in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 61% of the company; the top 10 hold 38%. 109 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, State Street, among others. On the short side, 12.9M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 4% of shares outstanding (7.1 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
PRU has cut its share count 11.1% over the past five years, spending $6.04B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (18 and counting), raised 9 years straight; the current rate is $5.40 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $5.23B in dividends and $2.77B in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at PRU over the trailing three years: 2024: 3 buys totaling $42k; 2025: 1 buy totaling $22k; 2026: 3 buys totaling $169k. 21 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
PRU's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-04 | -1.2% | -3.8% |
| 2023-11-03 | +0.3% | +10.8% |
| 2024-02-22 | +0.8% | +2.6% |
| 2024-05-03 | +0.3% | +4.1% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
PRU's latest 8-K filings: 2026-07-15 (items 2.02, 7.01); 2026-06-04 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-05-12 (items 5.07); 2026-05-05 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-04-21 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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