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Prudential Financial, Inc. (PRU) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for PRU, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 62/100 · S&P 500 fund at 67, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-25
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 99th percentile of the window, +8.4% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-25
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.61 · up 0.29 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-25
How it trades on rate days beta 0.12 to TLT · on the worst bond days it held up better than the market

How it trades on rate days

How PRU has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.12 — shows only a loose link to bond moves for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), Prudential Financial, Inc. moved 0.12% on average · correlation 0.05 · higher than 16% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 0.13 about the same as over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −0.48% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days +0.99% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Who it is priced against Insurance - Life · United States · 7 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Insurance - Life · United States

This name carries no Closelooknet score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against PRU on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Prudential Financial, Inc.

PRU in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Prudential Financial sells life insurance, annuities and retirement products through several units, and runs an asset manager, PGIM, for institutional and retail clients. Its Group Insurance arm covers workplace life and disability cover, while International Businesses extend life and retirement products outside the United States, mainly in Japan. It is based in Newark, New Jersey, and distributes through its own agents as well as outside partners.
Where it sits in the stack
Prudential carries no seat in Rubin, our build-out index, because it sits outside the AI hardware and infrastructure chain. It belongs to the Financial Services sector of our universe, in the Insurance – Life sleeve alongside other large annuity and protection writers.
Who it is priced against
The diary holds no peer group for Prudential in this record; the name the market most often sets against it is MetLife.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
Prudential is an S&P 500 constituent but has no Rubin seat, no Closelooknet score yet built, and no quotes recorded across the diary's editions.
What the diary watches
The diary watches how interest-rate moves feed through to the value of its annuity guarantees, since that link tends to drive swings in how the stock is read.

Prudential Financial, Inc. (PRU) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 4.66%, quarterly · last 1.40 USD on 2026-08-25

Dividends and capital return

What PRU pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 5.57 USD per share · a 4.66% yield on the 2026-09-25 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-25
  • Change on the year +4.1% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 5.35 USD per share
  • Last distribution 1.40 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-08-25
  • By calendar year 2023: 1.25 USD (partial) · 2024: 5.20 USD · 2025: 5.40 USD · 2026: 4.22 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-11-20

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-26

Quick answers

What is Prudential Financial, Inc. (PRU)?

Prudential Financial, Inc. trades as PRU on the US exchange (United States) in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-26.

Is PRU in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — Prudential Financial, Inc. is tracked in the Closelooknet research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelooknet functional index as of 2026-09-26.

Where does PRU trade against its moving averages?

Pullback inside an uptrend stack: Trades -0.8% vs the 50-day and +11.1% vs the 200-day average, 6.5% below the 52-week high and +31.8% off the 52-week low; a golden cross printed 61 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-25 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How does Prudential Financial, Inc. trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year Prudential Financial, Inc. had a beta of 0.12 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it shows only a loose link to bond moves, higher than 16% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −0.48% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

What does Prudential Financial, Inc. do?

Prudential Financial sells life insurance, annuities and retirement products through several units, and runs an asset manager, PGIM, for institutional and retail clients. Its Group Insurance arm covers workplace life and disability cover, while International Businesses extend life and retirement products outside the United States, mainly in Japan. It is based in Newark, New Jersey, and distributes through its own agents as well as outside partners. The diary holds no peer group for Prudential in this record; the name the market most often sets against it is MetLife.

Where does Prudential Financial, Inc. sit in the AI build-out?

Prudential carries no seat in Rubin, our build-out index, because it sits outside the AI hardware and infrastructure chain. It belongs to the Financial Services sector of our universe, in the Insurance – Life sleeve alongside other large annuity and protection writers. Prudential is an S&P 500 constituent but has no Rubin seat, no Closelooknet score yet built, and no quotes recorded across the diary's editions.

Does Prudential Financial, Inc. pay a dividend?

Prudential Financial, Inc. has paid 5.57 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 4.66% on the 2026-09-25 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 1.40 USD on 2026-08-25. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for PRU, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelooknet universe

then Insurance - Life, then Financial Services. Scored names rank on their Closelooknet score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.