CCK vs. ATR, BERY, SLGN, GEF, OI, MYE, BALL, AMBP, IR, and XYL
Should you be buying Crown stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Crown include AptarGroup (ATR), Berry Global Group (BERY), Silgan (SLGN), Greif (GEF), O-I Glass (OI), Myers Industries (MYE), Ball (BALL), Ardagh Metal Packaging (AMBP), Ingersoll Rand (IR), and Xylem (XYL). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
AptarGroup (NYSE:ATR) and Crown (NYSE:CCK) are both industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.
Crown received 262 more outperform votes than AptarGroup when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.34% of users gave Crown an outperform vote while only 56.96% of users gave AptarGroup an outperform vote.
88.5% of AptarGroup shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.9% of Crown shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of AptarGroup shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Crown shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Crown has higher revenue and earnings than AptarGroup. Crown is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AptarGroup, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AptarGroup has a net margin of 8.83% compared to AptarGroup's net margin of 3.51%. AptarGroup's return on equity of 23.95% beat Crown's return on equity.
AptarGroup has a beta of 0.57, meaning that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Crown has a beta of 0.88, meaning that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
AptarGroup presently has a consensus price target of $160.67, suggesting a potential upside of 8.79%. Crown has a consensus price target of $99.29, suggesting a potential upside of 17.93%. Given AptarGroup's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Crown is more favorable than AptarGroup.
In the previous week, Crown had 1 more articles in the media than AptarGroup. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Crown and 5 mentions for AptarGroup. AptarGroup's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Crown's score of 0.90 indicating that Crown is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
AptarGroup pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Crown pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. AptarGroup pays out 35.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Crown pays out 28.8% 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. AptarGroup has raised its dividend for 30 consecutive years and Crown has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Crown is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Crown beats AptarGroup on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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