AMBP vs. SLGN, BALL, CCK, DCI, GPK, RBC, AA, AGCO, AIT, and MSA
Should you be buying Ardagh Metal Packaging stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ardagh Metal Packaging include Silgan (SLGN), Ball (BALL), Crown (CCK), Donaldson (DCI), Graphic Packaging (GPK), RBC Bearings (RBC), Alcoa (AA), AGCO (AGCO), Applied Industrial Technologies (AIT), and MSA Safety (MSA). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Silgan (NYSE:SLGN) and Ardagh Metal Packaging (NYSE:AMBP) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, community ranking and institutional ownership.
Silgan has higher revenue and earnings than Ardagh Metal Packaging. Ardagh Metal Packaging is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Silgan, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Silgan and Silgan both had 3 articles in the media. Ardagh Metal Packaging's average media sentiment score of 1.52 beat Silgan's score of 0.80 indicating that Silgan is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Silgan currently has a consensus price target of $53.00, indicating a potential upside of 12.17%. Ardagh Metal Packaging has a consensus price target of $4.31, indicating a potential upside of 9.02%. Given Ardagh Metal Packaging's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Silgan is more favorable than Ardagh Metal Packaging.
Silgan has a beta of 0.69, suggesting that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ardagh Metal Packaging has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
70.3% of Silgan shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.9% of Ardagh Metal Packaging shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of Silgan shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Ardagh Metal Packaging shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Silgan received 325 more outperform votes than Ardagh Metal Packaging when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 51.99% of users gave Silgan an outperform vote while only 24.19% of users gave Ardagh Metal Packaging an outperform vote.
Silgan pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Ardagh Metal Packaging pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.1%. Silgan pays out 26.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ardagh Metal Packaging pays out -285.7% 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. Silgan has raised its dividend for 21 consecutive years and Ardagh Metal Packaging has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Ardagh Metal Packaging is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Silgan has a net margin of 5.25% compared to Silgan's net margin of -1.26%. Silgan's return on equity of 55.91% beat Ardagh Metal Packaging's return on equity.
Summary
Silgan beats Ardagh Metal Packaging on 17 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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