ATR vs. CCK, BERY, SLGN, GEF, OI, MYE, ENTG, AZEK, AWI, and NWL
Should you be buying AptarGroup stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AptarGroup include Crown (CCK), Berry Global Group (BERY), Silgan (SLGN), Greif (GEF), O-I Glass (OI), Myers Industries (MYE), Entegris (ENTG), AZEK (AZEK), Armstrong World Industries (AWI), and Newell Brands (NWL).
Crown (NYSE:CCK) and AptarGroup (NYSE:ATR) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Crown has a beta of 0.88, meaning that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AptarGroup has a beta of 0.57, meaning that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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 1.39 beat Crown's score of 1.05 indicating that Crown is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Crown presently has a consensus target price of $99.29, indicating a potential upside of 17.92%. AptarGroup has a consensus target price of $160.67, indicating a potential upside of 8.79%. Given AptarGroup's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Crown is more favorable than AptarGroup.
90.9% of Crown shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.5% of AptarGroup shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Crown shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of AptarGroup shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
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.
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.
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.
Crown pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. AptarGroup pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Crown pays out 28.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. AptarGroup pays out 35.2% 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. Crown has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years and AptarGroup has increased its dividend for 30 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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