PTVE vs. SEE, SON, REYN, BERY, TTC, LNW, 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), Sonoco Products (SON), Reynolds Consumer Products (REYN), Berry Global Group (BERY), Toro (TTC), Light & Wonder (LNW), Hasbro (HAS), Roku (ROKU), Pearson (PSO), and Paramount Global (PARA).
Pactiv Evergreen (NASDAQ:PTVE) and Sealed Air (NYSE:SEE) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.
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.
Pactiv Evergreen pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Sealed Air pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Pactiv Evergreen pays out -87.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sealed Air pays out 32.1% 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.
Sealed Air has a net margin of 6.61% compared to Pactiv Evergreen's net margin of -1.50%. Sealed Air's return on equity of 94.93% beat Pactiv Evergreen's return on equity.
Sealed Air has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
Pactiv Evergreen has a beta of 1.43, suggesting that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sealed Air has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Pactiv Evergreen currently has a consensus price target of $16.71, suggesting a potential upside of 35.23%. Sealed Air has a consensus price target of $43.50, suggesting a potential upside of 11.91%. Given Pactiv Evergreen's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Pactiv Evergreen is more favorable than Sealed Air.
22.2% of Pactiv Evergreen shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.4% of Sealed Air shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Pactiv Evergreen shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Sealed Air shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Pactiv Evergreen and Pactiv Evergreen both had 5 articles in the media. Sealed Air's average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat Pactiv Evergreen's score of 0.66 indicating that Sealed Air is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Sealed Air beats Pactiv Evergreen on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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