GEF vs. CCK, ATR, BERY, SLGN, OI, MYE, AOS, LECO, TTEK, and ALLE
Should you be buying Greif stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Greif include Crown (CCK), AptarGroup (ATR), Berry Global Group (BERY), Silgan (SLGN), O-I Glass (OI), Myers Industries (MYE), A. O. Smith (AOS), Lincoln Electric (LECO), Tetra Tech (TTEK), and Allegion (ALLE). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Crown (NYSE:CCK) and Greif (NYSE:GEF) are both industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.
Crown pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Greif pays an annual dividend of $2.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Crown pays out 28.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Greif pays out 36.0% 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. Crown has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Greif has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
Crown received 300 more outperform votes than Greif when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.34% of users gave Crown an outperform vote while only 55.75% of users gave Greif an outperform vote.
Greif has a net margin of 6.53% compared to Greif's net margin of 3.51%. Greif's return on equity of 23.95% beat Crown's return on equity.
In the previous week, Crown had 4 more articles in the media than Greif. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Crown and 3 mentions for Greif. Greif's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Crown's score of 0.00 indicating that Crown is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Crown has a beta of 0.88, meaning that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Greif has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
90.9% of Crown shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.7% of Greif shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Crown shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of Greif shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Crown has higher revenue and earnings than Greif. Greif is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Crown, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Crown currently has a consensus price target of $99.29, suggesting a potential upside of 17.93%. Greif has a consensus price target of $77.25, suggesting a potential upside of 18.96%. Given Crown's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Greif is more favorable than Crown.
Summary
Crown beats Greif on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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