PTVE vs. SEE, REYN, SON, BERY, LNW, TTC, HAS, ROKU, PSO, and PARA
Should you be buying Pactiv Evergreen stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pactiv Evergreen include Sealed Air (SEE), Reynolds Consumer Products (REYN), Sonoco Products (SON), Berry Global Group (BERY), Light & Wonder (LNW), Toro (TTC), Hasbro (HAS), Roku (ROKU), Pearson (PSO), and Paramount Global (PARA).
Sealed Air (NYSE:SEE) and Pactiv Evergreen (NASDAQ:PTVE) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and institutional ownership.
Sealed Air currently has a consensus price target of $43.50, suggesting a potential upside of 11.91%. Pactiv Evergreen has a consensus price target of $16.71, suggesting a potential upside of 35.23%. Given Sealed Air's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Pactiv Evergreen is more favorable than Sealed Air.
94.4% of Sealed Air shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.2% of Pactiv Evergreen shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Sealed Air shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Pactiv Evergreen shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Sealed Air has a net margin of 6.61% compared to Sealed Air's net margin of -1.50%. Pactiv Evergreen's return on equity of 94.93% beat Sealed Air's return on equity.
Sealed Air received 440 more outperform votes than Pactiv Evergreen when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.32% of users gave Sealed Air an outperform vote while only 40.58% of users gave Pactiv Evergreen an outperform vote.
Sealed Air has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pactiv Evergreen has a beta of 1.43, suggesting that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sealed Air has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Pactiv Evergreen. Pactiv Evergreen is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sealed Air, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Sealed Air and Sealed Air both had 5 articles in the media. Pactiv Evergreen's average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat Sealed Air's score of 0.93 indicating that Sealed Air is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Sealed Air pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Pactiv Evergreen pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Sealed Air pays out 32.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Pactiv Evergreen pays out -87.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Pactiv Evergreen is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Sealed Air beats Pactiv Evergreen on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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