AMBP vs. SLGN, ALG, AZZ, PLUG, ATMU, OI, ESE, KMT, SXI, and B
Should you be buying Ardagh Metal Packaging stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ardagh Metal Packaging include Silgan (SLGN), Alamo Group (ALG), AZZ (AZZ), Plug Power (PLUG), Atmus Filtration Technologies (ATMU), O-I Glass (OI), ESCO Technologies (ESE), Kennametal (KMT), Standex International (SXI), and Barnes Group (B). 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 businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends and risk.
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 has a beta of 0.69, suggesting that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ardagh Metal Packaging has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
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 9.9%. 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. Ardagh Metal Packaging is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
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.
Silgan currently has a consensus target price of $53.00, indicating a potential upside of 12.17%. Ardagh Metal Packaging has a consensus target price of $4.31, indicating a potential upside of 6.20%. Given Ardagh Metal Packaging's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Silgan is more favorable than Ardagh Metal Packaging.
70.3% of Silgan shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.9% of Ardagh Metal Packaging shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Silgan shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Ardagh Metal Packaging shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Silgan had 10 more articles in the media than Ardagh Metal Packaging. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Silgan and 1 mentions for Ardagh Metal Packaging. Silgan's average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat Ardagh Metal Packaging's score of 0.23 indicating that Ardagh Metal Packaging is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Silgan beats Ardagh Metal Packaging on 17 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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