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Voya Financial, Inc.VOYACompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Financials›Life/Health Insurance

US retirement, investment management and employee benefits company, formerly ING U.S.

Momentum strong 72
Mkt cap
$8.91B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
100%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$88.2M
20-day average traded
P/B
2.34×
price to book
ROE
14.3%
delivered
Implied ROE
17.2%
what the price asks
Official | Implied
BBB+ / BBB+
agencies · bond market
Next earnings
95 days
9 Feb 2027
Close · USD$99.01
1D+0.6%
1W+1.0%
1M+2.5%
3M-1.2%
6M+21.4%
YTD+32.9%
1Y+39.2%
ATR %3.0%
Beta0.76
52w lowhigh6.3% off high

What Voya Financial does

US retirement, investment management and employee benefits company, formerly ING U.S.

Earns fees on assets in retirement plans it administers, premiums on workplace insurance such as stop-loss (cover for self-insured employers against very large medical claims), and management fees on its investment arm. It sold its legacy annuity and individual life blocks in 2018, leaving a lighter, fee-driven business.

Products and services

  • Workplace retirement plans (401k)
  • Investment management (Voya IM)
  • Employee benefits (stop-loss, life, disability)

Customers

  • Employers (retirement plan sponsors)
  • Retail retirement savers
  • Institutional asset management clients

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Financial services/insurance
  • Retirement plan services
  • Investment management & employee…

What could go right

  • Workplace retirement asset growth
  • Employee benefits (stop-loss) growth

What could go wrong

  • Equity market sensitivity of AUM-based fees
  • Competition from larger record-keepers (Empower/Fidelity)

Moat: narrow (switching costs, scale, distribution). Employer retirement plan administration relationships are sticky once record-keeping systems are embedded.

Headquarters: New York, New York, US · Founded: 2013 · Employees: 11,000

Named competitors

Voya Financial at a glance

Size Voya Financial (VOYA) is a United States Financials company (Life/Health Insurance) with a market value of $8.91B, the 834th largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $99.01 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 21.4%, against +9.5% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — 8th highest of 21 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue fell 2.9% over the last twelve months (peer median +17.7%); the operating margin is 9.3% (peer median 9.5%).

Valuation It trades at 2.34× book value against a peer median of 2.41× (10th cheapest of 20).

Price implies The share price implies a return on equity of about 17.2%; Voya Financial delivers 14.3%, so the price asks more than the business earns today.

Credit Voya Financial has 6 bonds outstanding ($2.17B), rated BBB+ by the agencies and trading like BBB+ at a weighted spread of 105 bp.

Short interest Short interest is 4.0% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Next results Next results expected around 9 Feb 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

10012011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026VOYA 124Peer median 109
Six months, rebased to 100: Voya Financial against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Voya Financial financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$7.86B$8.19B$8.05B$7.35B$5.93B
Revenue growth—+2%+10%+24%—
Net income$625M$654M$667M$625M$510M
Free cash flown/a$1.29B$1.34B$1.64B$1.35B
Capital expendituren/a$0$0$0$0
Total debt$2.09B$4.27B$3.60B$4.63B$4.61B

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Voya Financial competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-20%0%+20%+40%0%+10%PRIJXNMPLSTJ7181ICICILIFESDLFHDFCLIFE8795EQHCGFCRBGELFMFSLRGA2883SBILIFENNSTARHEALTH002423VOYA6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Voya Financial is the large dot.

Fundamentals: return on equity against price-to-book

-100%0%00×200×400×PRIJXNMPLSTJ7181SDLFCGFMFSLVOYAReturn on equity →Price / book →
A bank or insurer earning more on its equity usually trades at a higher multiple of book; points far above the trend are priced for more. Voya Financial is the large dot.

Capital: ROE delivered against the ROE the price implies

0%25%50%75%100%0%50%100%PRIJXNMPLSTJ7181ICICILIFEHDFCLIFE8795CGFELFMFSLSBILIFESTARHEALTHVOYAROE delivered →ROE the price implies →
Above the diagonal = the price asks for a higher return on equity than the business earns today. Voya Financial is the large dot.

Voya Financial competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (VOYA vs PFG vs PRU vs LNC)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthROEPrice / bookImplied ROE
Voya Financial VOYA$8.91B+21%-3%14%2.34×17.2%
Principal Financial PFG$23.6B+10%+5%17%2.00×15.5%
Prudential Financial PRU$41.1B+20%+4%13%1.39×11.4%
Lincoln National LNC$7.67B+12%+12%23%0.74×8.6%
Corebridge Financial CRBG$14.9B+25%+10%22%2.41×19.3%
Unum UNM$12.2B-5%-5%3%1.52×8.1%
MetLife MET$62.4B+27%+9%13%2.28×16.2%

How Voya Financial compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Voya Financial against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureVOYAPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+2.5%+2.1%10th highest of 21
6-month return+21.4%+9.5%8th highest of 21
Return on equity14.3%11.7%7th highest of 21
Price / book2.34×2.41×10th cheapest of 20
Trailing P/E15.9×11.7×9th most expensive of 20
ROE the price implies17.2%17.6%10th least demanding of 19
ROE delivered14.3%11.7%7th highest of 20
Bond spread105 bp102 bp4th tightest of 7

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthROEPrice / bookImplied ROEDelivered ROE
Voya Financial VOYAUnited States$8.91B+21%-3%14%2.34×17.2%14.3%
Primerica PRIUnited States$8.94B+6%+8%33%3.56×24.9%32.9%
Jackson Financial Incorporation JXNUnited States$8.70B+17%+34%9%1.10×12.5%9.5%
Medibank Private MPL.AXAustralia$9.94B+14%+9%27%5.90×23.8%26.8%
St. James's Place STJ.LUnited Kingdom$7.48B-3%+164%38%3.64×43.3%38.4%
JAPAN POST INSURANCE 7181.TJapan$11.2B+8%-6%4%0.38×2.9%4.2%
ICICI Life Insurance ICICILIFE.NSIndia$6.77B-22%-8%13%4.67×65.0%12.6%
Standard Life SDLF.LUnited Kingdom$12.5B+25%+135%-179%38.09×n/a-179.3%
HDFC Life Insurance HDFCLIFE.NSIndia$13.0B-10%+19%11%6.31×72.0%11.2%
T&d 8795.TJapan$14.0B+21%+6%9%1.32×5.6%9.3%
Equitable EQHUnited States$14.1B+24%+6%-183%n/an/an/a
Challenger CGF.AXAustralia$5.59B+36%-25%13%2.01×15.8%13.3%
Corebridge Financial CRBGUnited States$14.9B+25%+10%22%2.41×19.3%21.7%
E-L Financial ELF.TOCanada$4.74B+10%+32%20%0.68×6.4%20.2%
Max Financial Services MFSL.NSIndia$4.68B-25%+18%3%7.71×78.7%3.3%
Reinsurance Group of America RGAUnited States$17.1B+24%+20%12%1.25×8.0%11.7%
Kgi Financial 2883.TWTaiwan$17.3B+60%+32%14%1.33×7.1%14.4%
SBI Life Insurance SBILIFE.NSIndia$18.9B-5%+18%14%8.72×105.4%13.7%
NN Group N.V. NN.ASNetherlands$22.4B+4%+39%9%1.08×6.9%9.2%
Star Health & Allied Insurance STARHEALTH.NSIndia$3.52B+9%+21%12%3.19×47.7%11.7%
COFCO Capital 002423.SZChina$3.15B-11%-31%6%0.85×6.2%5.6%

Voya Financial bonds and credit

Voya Financial has 6 bonds outstanding with $2.17B face value. The agencies rate it BBB+; its bonds trade like BBB+. Weighted yield 5.99%, a spread of 105 bp over government bonds.

Every bond, yield and spread in the cockpit →

Questions

Who are Voya Financial's main competitors?
Named competitors: Principal Financial Group (PFG), Prudential Financial (PRU), Empower (private or unlisted), MassMutual (private or unlisted), Lincoln National (LNC), Corebridge Financial (CRBG). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Primerica (PRI), Jackson Financial Incorporation (JXN), Medibank Private (MPL.AX), St. James's Place (STJ.L), JAPAN POST INSURANCE (7181.T), ICICI Life Insurance (ICICILIFE.NS).
Is Voya Financial expensive compared with its peers?
On price / book it trades at 2.34× against a peer median of 2.41×, 10th cheapest of 20 in its peer set. The share price implies a return on equity of about 17.2%; Voya Financial delivers 14.3%, so the price asks more than the business earns today.
How has Voya Financial stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +21.4% against +9.5% for the median peer; over one year +39.2%.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.