Voya Financial (VOYA)
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Rating:59Neutral
Price Target:
$85.00
▲(14.17% Upside)
Action:ReiteratedDate:04/09/26
The score is held back primarily by financial quality concerns, especially the 2025 drop to zero operating/free cash flow and weakening 2025 top-line/operating margin trends. Offsetting this, the latest earnings call indicates strong core franchise momentum and capital generation with continued buybacks planned, and valuation appears reasonable. Technicals remain a mild headwind with negative MACD and the stock below key longer-term moving averages.
Positive Factors
Retirement franchise scale
Voya’s large, growing defined-contribution business drives durable fee revenue and high margins. Record DC flows and ~10M participant accounts create sticky assets under administration, supporting predictable fee income, strong operating margins and an embedded long-term distribution footprint.
Negative Factors
Operating cash flow volatility
An abrupt drop to zero operating and free cash flow in 2025 highlights inconsistent cash conversion. Persistent volatility in cash generation can strain funding for capital returns, reserves and investments, reducing financial flexibility and raising execution risk over the next several quarters.
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Positive Factors
Negative Factors
Retirement franchise scale
Voya’s large, growing defined-contribution business drives durable fee revenue and high margins. Record DC flows and ~10M participant accounts create sticky assets under administration, supporting predictable fee income, strong operating margins and an embedded long-term distribution footprint.
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Voya Financial (VOYA) vs. SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY)
Market Cap
$7.51B
Dividend Yield2.41%
Average Volume (3M)1.01M
Price to Earnings (P/E)10.9
Beta (1Y)1.08
Revenue Growth1.73%
EPS Growth2.18%
CountryUS
Employees10,000
SectorFinancial
Sector Strength70
IndustryFinancial - Conglomerates
Share Statistics
EPS (TTM)1.94
Shares Outstanding92,362,380
10 Day Avg. Volume1,167,277
30 Day Avg. Volume1,012,100
Financial Highlights & Ratios
PEG Ratio8.62
Price to Book (P/B)1.44
Price to Sales (P/S)0.95
P/FCF Ratio5.55
Enterprise Value/Market Cap1.12
Enterprise Value/Revenue1.12
Enterprise Value/Gross Profit2.17
Enterprise Value/Ebitda32.27
Forecast
1Y Price Target
$87.50Price Target Upside17.53% Upside
Rating ConsensusModerate Buy
Number of Analyst Covering11
EPS Forecast (FY)9.56
Revenue Forecast (FY)$8.03B
Voya Financial Business Overview & Revenue Model
Company Description
Voya Financial, Inc. operates as a retirement, investment, and employee benefits company in the United States. The company's Wealth Solutions segment offers tax-deferred employer-sponsored retirement savings plans and administrative services; and ...
How the Company Makes Money
Voya primarily generates revenue through fee-based and spread-based income across its workplace benefits, retirement, and investment/asset-management activities. In its retirement business, it earns (1) administrative and recordkeeping fees for se...
Voya Financial Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Any
Adjusted Operating Revenue by Segment
Shows revenue generated by each business unit (e.g., Retirement, Investment Management, Employee Benefits, Individual), revealing where growth and fee income are coming from. Highlights diversification, sensitivity to market moves and net flows, and whether lower-fee or higher-margin businesses are driving top-line trends.
Shows revenue generated by each business unit (e.g., Retirement, Investment Management, Employee Benefits, Individual), revealing where growth and fee income are coming from. Highlights diversification, sensitivity to market moves and net flows, and whether lower-fee or higher-margin businesses are driving top-line trends.
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The FlyVoya Financial Earnings Call Summary
Earnings Call Date:Feb 03, 2026
(Q4-2025)
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Next Earnings Date:May 05, 2026
Earnings Call Sentiment Positive
The call conveyed strong financial and commercial momentum across Voya's core franchises — record earnings, robust DC flows, investment management revenue and significant excess cash generation — while acknowledging material, but manageable, challenges in the Stop Loss line driven by reserve strengthening and a wider range of healthcare outcomes. Management emphasized pricing, risk selection and reserving actions (including a Q4 reserve build and 24% Jan 2026 rate increases) and reiterated a multi-year remediation approach; the positives (broad-based earnings growth, cash generation, scale and strategic execution) materially outweigh the Stop Loss uncertainties.Positive Updates
Record Annual Earnings and EPS Growth
Generated over $1.0 billion of pretax adjusted operating earnings for FY2025 (up $168 million YoY) and increased diluted EPS 22% to $8.85; Q4 EPS of $1.94 was up 39% YoY.
Negative Updates
Stop Loss Reserving and Uncertainty
Recorded a $37 million reserve increase in Q4; management noted a materially wider range of possible outcomes (range roughly double historical) and emphasized the importance of Q1 development to clarify accident-year performance.
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Q4-2025 Updates
Positive
Negative
Record Annual Earnings and EPS Growth
Generated over $1.0 billion of pretax adjusted operating earnings for FY2025 (up $168 million YoY) and increased diluted EPS 22% to $8.85; Q4 EPS of $1.94 was up 39% YoY.
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Company Guidance
The company guided to continued improvement in 2026, saying it expects further excess capital generation above the $775 million produced in 2025 (including ~$175 million in Q4 and exceeding a $700 million target), continued commercial momentum in Retirement and Investment Management, and additional margin expansion in Employee Benefits led by Stop Loss actions; specific metrics called out include planned share repurchases of $150 million in Q1 (and an expected $150 million in Q2, subject to macro), an expanded adjusted ROE of 18.6%, Retirement momentum underpinning meaningful DC net inflows (plans expected to fund in the back half of the year) after 2025’s record $28 billion DC net flows, fee‑based revenues >$1.4 billion and ~10 million participant accounts, Investment Management on track to sustain organic growth after $1.0 billion of 2025 net revenues, 4.8% organic growth, ~$15 billion of 2025 flows and $360 billion AUM, and Stop Loss posture that embeds a 24% average net effective rate increase for the January 2026 cohort (after 2025 reserve actions including a $37 million Q4 increase and full‑year Stop Loss reported loss‑ratio improvement from 94% to 84%), with claims credibility for January cohorts moving from ~65% to ~90% on a paid basis through Q1.Voya Financial Financial Statement Overview
Summary
Income Statement
63
Positive
Balance Sheet
72
Positive
Cash Flow
38
Negative
| Breakdown | Dec 2025 | Dec 2024 | Dec 2023 | Dec 2022 | Dec 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Income Statement | |||||
| Total Revenue | 7.50B | 8.05B | 7.35B | 5.93B | 4.23B |
| Gross Profit | 3.89B | 3.88B | 3.69B | 2.97B | 7.36B |
| EBITDA | 261.00M | 1.10B | 976.00M | 611.00M | 2.97B |
| Net Income | 654.00M | 667.00M | 625.00M | 510.00M | 2.11B |
Balance Sheet | |||||
| Total Assets | 178.86B | 163.89B | 157.09B | 146.61B | 171.26B |
| Cash, Cash Equivalents and Short-Term Investments | 1.23B | 25.70B | 26.71B | 28.41B | 35.37B |
| Total Debt | 2.10B | 3.60B | 3.43B | 3.47B | 3.48B |
| Total Liabilities | 171.82B | 157.88B | 151.03B | 141.61B | 161.44B |
| Stockholders Equity | 4.95B | 4.00B | 4.19B | 3.35B | 8.25B |
Cash Flow | |||||
| Free Cash Flow | 1.29B | 911.00M | 1.64B | 1.35B | 22.00M |
| Operating Cash Flow | 1.29B | 911.00M | 1.64B | 1.35B | 22.00M |
| Investing Cash Flow | -1.37B | -141.00M | 2.53B | -1.95B | -327.00M |
| Financing Cash Flow | -85.00M | -759.00M | -4.06B | 28.00M | -265.00M |
Voya Financial Technical Analysis
Positive
74.45
Price Trends
69.98
Positive
71.98
Positive
72.12
Positive
Market Momentum
1.09
Negative
66.89
Neutral
87.23
Negative
Evaluating momentum and price trends is crucial in stock analysis to make informed investment decisions. For VOYA, the sentiment is Positive. The current price of 74.45 is above the 20-day moving average (MA) of 69.30, above the 50-day MA of 69.98, and above the 200-day MA of 72.12, indicating a bullish trend. The MACD of 1.09 indicates Negative momentum. The RSI at 66.89 is Neutral, neither overbought nor oversold. The STOCH value of 87.23 is Negative, not indicating any strong overbought or oversold conditions. Overall, these indicators collectively point to a Positive sentiment for VOYA.
Voya Financial Risk Analysis
Voya Financial disclosed 10 risk factors in its most recent earnings report. Voya Financial reported the most risks in the "Macro & Political" category.
Finance & Corporate - Financial and accounting risks. Risks related to the execution of corporate activity and strategy
Latest Risks Added 0 New Risks
Voya Financial Peers Comparison
UnderperformOutperform
Sector (68)
Name | Overall Rating | Market Cap | P/E Ratio | ROE | Dividend Yield | Revenue Growth | EPS Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
73 Outperform | $14.76B | 11.04 | 9.48% | 0.95% | 39.90% | 16.82% | |
68 Neutral | $6.78B | 10.25 | 23.40% | 6.07% | 9.09% | 55.11% | |
68 Neutral | $18.00B | 11.42 | 9.92% | 3.81% | 9.73% | 1.22% | |
65 Neutral | $4.84B | 10.94 | 16.94% | 7.17% | 5.64% | -5.45% | |
59 Neutral | $7.51B | 10.93 | 13.83% | 2.41% | 1.73% | 2.18% | |
49 Neutral | $2.92B | 78.35 | 7.29% | ― | 63.99% | ― |
* Financial Sector Average
VOYA
Voya Financial
81.34
23.67
41.05%
MAIN
Main Street Capital
53.75
3.91
7.85%
PNFP
Pinnacle Financial Partners
97.71
-1.25
-1.26%
OMF
OneMain Holdings
57.91
14.28
32.72%
UPST
Upstart Holdings
30.48
-17.32
-36.23%
Voya Financial Corporate Events
Financial Disclosures
Voya Financial Announces Preliminary First-Quarter 2026 AUM
Neutral
Apr 21, 2026
Voya Financial disclosed preliminary assets under management for its Investment Management segment ahead of its first-quarter 2026 earnings release, reporting approximately $353 billion in AUM as of March 31, 2026. The portfolio mix included $98 b...
Stock BuybackFinancial Disclosures
Voya Financial Issues Preliminary Q1 2026 Investment Update
Positive
Apr 8, 2026
Voya Financial, Inc. disclosed preliminary alternative investment income expectations and capital deployment activity for the first quarter ended March 31, 2026, ahead of its scheduled earnings release on May 5, 2026. The company reported having r...
Business Operations and StrategyPrivate Placements and Financing
Voya Financial Issues New 2036 Senior Notes Offering
Positive
Mar 2, 2026
On March 2, 2026, Voya Financial completed a registered public offering of $400 million in 5.050% senior unsecured notes due 2036, fully and unconditionally guaranteed by its wholly owned subsidiary Voya Holdings Inc. The notes, issued under an ex...
Business Operations and StrategyStock BuybackDividendsFinancial Disclosures
Voya Financial Reports Strong 2025 Results and Capital Generation
Positive
Feb 3, 2026
On Feb. 3, 2026, Voya Financial reported its fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 results, highlighting robust underlying operating performance despite a slight decline in GAAP net income year over year. Full-year 2025 net income available to common ...
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