Prudential Financial, Inc. · PRU · FY2024 Q2 · Calendar Q3 2024

Prudential emphasizes retirement growth and capital strength

The call supports a constructive but conditional view of Prudential's growth trajectory: retirement and annuity demand, PGIM scale, product diversification, and emerging-market expansion provide support, while rate sensitivity, flow volatility, investment-income variability, and competitive pressure remain material offsets.

Reported After market closeNYSEFinancial Services $39.24B market cap
100quality score

Earnings scorecard

Reported versus consensus
Reported EPS $3.39 Consensus $3.45
EPS surprise -1.7% Reported versus consensus
Reported revenue $14.88B Consensus $13.53B
Revenue surprise +10.0% Reported versus consensus

Market reaction

event-close to next-session close
Stock move -10.0% Event window
SPY move -1.9% Same window
Abnormal move -8.1% Stock minus SPY
Volume 4.1× Versus trailing sessions
Subsequent drift +9.9% Up to 20 sessions
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What changed

Compared with the prior-quarter analysis, the current call put more emphasis on the 67% year-over-year increase in Retirement Strategies sales, the Deerpath Capital acquisition, and the completed $10 billion Prismic transaction. The growth narrative broadened to include AI/ML-driven efficiency and continued Japan and Brazil expansion, while guidance sentiment remained maintained.

Guidance delta

Management guidance sentiment was maintained; no new quantitative guidance change was supplied in the analysis.

Key takeaways

  • Retirement Strategies sales increased 67% year over year, with individual annuity sales nearly doubling.
  • PGIM assets under management rose 5% to $1.3 trillion; private alternatives AUM was $240 billion.
  • Management highlighted an AA rating, more than $4 billion of liquid assets, and $700 million returned to shareholders.
  • The company is emphasizing capital-efficient products and AI/ML-enabled operational efficiencies.
  • Japan, Brazil, emerging markets, and opportunistic M&A remain part of the growth agenda.

Management priorities

  • Expand retirement, annuity, and longevity-risk-transfer products.
  • Build the Prismic reinsurance transaction pipeline.
  • Invest in AI, machine learning, and technology platforms.
  • Pursue opportunistic M&A, particularly in emerging markets.
  • Maintain disciplined capital deployment and return capital to shareholders.

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Earnings History

Estimate Beat Miss Match
PRU EPS earnings history estimate and actual scatter chart 9 reported fiscal quarters and 3 future estimate-only quarters. Q4 '23 estimate $2.61 Q4 '23 actual $2.58, miss Q1 '24 estimate $3.13 Q1 '24 actual $3.12, match Q2 '24 estimate $3.45 Q2 '24 actual $3.39, miss Q3 '24 estimate $3.47 Q3 '24 actual $3.48, match Q2 '25 estimate $3.22 Q2 '25 actual $3.58, beat Q3 '25 estimate $3.72 Q3 '25 actual $4.26, beat Q4 '25 estimate $3.37 Q4 '25 actual $3.30, miss Q1 '26 estimate $3.09 Q1 '26 actual $3.61, beat Q2 '26 estimate $3.52 Q2 '26 actual $4.08, beat Q3 '26 estimate $3.46 Q4 '26 estimate $3.28 Q1 '27 estimate $3.48
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Analyst Consensus ?

ConsensusHold37 ratings
Bullish718.9%
Neutral2567.6%
Bearish513.5%

Analyst 52W Price Targets

$113.09Previous close
$79Low
$107.38Average
$128High

Latest persisted target per named analyst; persisted previous close from FN2's market snapshot as of Oct 12, 2026. Not an FN2 forecast.

Firm-level rating actions

FMP grade actions identify the grading firm, not a named analyst.

FirmRatingPrior ratingActionDate
Mizuho Neutral NeutralMaintainOct 7, 2026
Barclays Underweight UnderweightMaintainOct 7, 2026
Morgan Stanley Underweight UnderweightMaintainAug 24, 2026
Wells Fargo Underweight UnderweightMaintainAug 19, 2026
JP Morgan Neutral NeutralMaintainAug 17, 2026
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Named analyst price targets

Upside is calculated against the persisted previous close $113.09. FMP does not supply a rating on these named-analyst rows.

FirmAnalyst52W targetPrice when postedUpsideDate
BarclaysAnalyst unavailable$96$113.54 -15.1%Oct 7, 2026
Morgan StanleyBob Huang$105$122.44 -7.2%Aug 24, 2026
Wells FargoWes Carmichael$110$124.54 -2.7%Aug 19, 2026
Piper SandlerPaul Newsome$128$122.11 +13.2%Aug 11, 2026
Atlantic EquitiesAnalyst unavailable$114$115.15 +0.8%Jul 15, 2026
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Company context

Snapshot as of publication

Prudential Financial, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides financial products and services in the United States, Japan and internationally. It operates through PGIM, Retirement Strategies, Group Insurance, Individual Life, and International Businesses segments. The PGIM segment offers investment management services and solutions related to public fixed income, public equity, real estate debt and equity, private credit and other alternatives, and multi-asset class strategies to institutional and retail clients, as well as its insurance and retirement businesses. The Retirement Strategies segment provides a range of retirement investment, and income products and services to retirement plan sponsors in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors; group annuities and other products; international reinsurance; investment only products; and FlexGuard suite, Fixed annuities, and variable annuities…

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Sources

  1. Earnings call transcript and parsed analysis · 2026-05-11T10:29:34.698584+00:00
  2. FN2 earnings calendar · 2024-10-17T05:10:49.140638+00:00
  3. Polygon adjusted daily market bars · 2026-10-12T06:40:43.886093+00:00
  4. Financial Modeling Prep analyst price-target consensus and quote snapshot · 2026-10-12T06:40:43.883413+00:00

Methodology

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Analyst target low, average, and high values are derived at request time from each named analyst's latest persisted FMP target. The current-price marker comes from FN2's persisted market snapshot. They are sell-side estimates, not an FN2 valuation or recommendation.

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By FN2 Research · Updated · As of 2026-10-12. For educational purposes only; not investment advice.