CCK vs. ATR, BERY, SLGN, GEF, OI, MYE, BALL, AMBP, IR, and XYL
Should you be buying Crown stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Crown include AptarGroup (ATR), Berry Global Group (BERY), Silgan (SLGN), Greif (GEF), O-I Glass (OI), Myers Industries (MYE), Ball (BALL), Ardagh Metal Packaging (AMBP), Ingersoll Rand (IR), and Xylem (XYL). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Crown (NYSE:CCK) and AptarGroup (NYSE:ATR) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, risk, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.
AptarGroup has a net margin of 8.83% compared to Crown's net margin of 3.51%. Crown's return on equity of 23.95% beat AptarGroup'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.
90.9% of Crown shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.5% of AptarGroup shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Crown shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of AptarGroup shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
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 0.6, meaning that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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 is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Crown currently has a consensus price target of $99.29, indicating a potential upside of 20.77%. AptarGroup has a consensus price target of $160.67, indicating a potential upside of 10.39%. Given Crown's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Crown is more favorable than AptarGroup.
In the previous week, AptarGroup had 9 more articles in the media than Crown. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for AptarGroup and 8 mentions for Crown. Crown's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat AptarGroup's score of 0.87 indicating that Crown is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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.
Summary
Crown beats AptarGroup on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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