GEF vs. CCK, ATR, BERY, SLGN, OI, MYE, TTEK, LECO, ALLE, and RRX
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), Tetra Tech (TTEK), Lincoln Electric (LECO), Allegion (ALLE), and Regal Rexnord (RRX). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Crown (NYSE:CCK) and Greif (NYSE:GEF) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, valuation and institutional ownership.
Crown presently has a consensus price target of $99.29, suggesting a potential upside of 20.77%. Greif has a consensus price target of $80.25, suggesting a potential upside of 30.89%. Given Crown's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Greif is more favorable than Crown.
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 3.4%. Crown pays out 28.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Greif pays out 44.7% 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. Crown has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Greif has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
Crown has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Greif has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Greif had 16 more articles in the media than Crown. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Greif and 10 mentions for Crown. Crown's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Greif's score of 0.80 indicating that Greif is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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.
Greif has a net margin of 5.17% compared to Greif's net margin of 3.51%. Greif's return on equity of 23.95% beat Crown's return on equity.
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 company insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of Greif shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Crown received 299 more outperform votes than Greif when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.34% of users gave Crown an outperform vote while only 55.62% of users gave Greif an outperform vote.
Summary
Crown beats Greif on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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