PACK vs. ITP, KMB, AVY, ERO, AG, SCL, FSM, HWKN, NGVT, and ANDE
Should you be buying Ranpak stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ranpak include IT Tech Packaging (ITP), Kimberly-Clark (KMB), Avery Dennison (AVY), Ero Copper (ERO), First Majestic Silver (AG), Stepan (SCL), Fortuna Silver Mines (FSM), Hawkins (HWKN), Ingevity (NGVT), and Andersons (ANDE).
IT Tech Packaging (NYSE:ITP) and Ranpak (NYSE:PACK) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.
In the previous week, Ranpak had 1 more articles in the media than IT Tech Packaging. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Ranpak and 0 mentions for IT Tech Packaging. IT Tech Packaging's average media sentiment score of 1.84 beat Ranpak's score of 0.00 indicating that Ranpak is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
IT Tech Packaging received 18 more outperform votes than Ranpak when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.52% of users gave IT Tech Packaging an outperform vote while only 36.84% of users gave Ranpak an outperform vote.
3.0% of IT Tech Packaging shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.9% of Ranpak shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.7% of IT Tech Packaging shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.4% of Ranpak shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Ranpak has a consensus price target of $9.00, indicating a potential upside of 57.07%. Given IT Tech Packaging's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Ranpak is more favorable than IT Tech Packaging.
IT Tech Packaging has a beta of -0.2, meaning that its share price is 120% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ranpak has a beta of 2.31, meaning that its share price is 131% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ranpak has a net margin of -6.70% compared to Ranpak's net margin of -14.88%. IT Tech Packaging's return on equity of -3.97% beat Ranpak's return on equity.
IT Tech Packaging has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Ranpak. Ranpak is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IT Tech Packaging, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Ranpak beats IT Tech Packaging on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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