SLGN vs. CCK, ATR, BERY, GEF, OI, MYE, AMBP, BALL, TS, and AVY
Should you be buying Silgan stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Silgan include Crown (CCK), AptarGroup (ATR), Berry Global Group (BERY), Greif (GEF), O-I Glass (OI), Myers Industries (MYE), Ardagh Metal Packaging (AMBP), Ball (BALL), Tenaris (TS), and Avery Dennison (AVY). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Crown (NYSE:CCK) and Silgan (NYSE:SLGN) 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 institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.
Crown has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Silgan has a beta of 0.69, suggesting that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Crown had 7 more articles in the media than Silgan. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Crown and 3 mentions for Silgan. Crown's average media sentiment score of 1.78 beat Silgan's score of 0.80 indicating that Silgan is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Silgan has a net margin of 5.25% compared to Silgan's net margin of 3.51%. Silgan's return on equity of 23.95% beat Crown's return on equity.
Crown currently has a consensus price target of $99.29, indicating a potential upside of 20.77%. Silgan has a consensus price target of $53.00, indicating a potential upside of 15.52%. Given Silgan's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Crown is more favorable than Silgan.
90.9% of Crown shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.3% of Silgan shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Crown shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Silgan shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Crown received 241 more outperform votes than Silgan when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.34% of users gave Crown an outperform vote while only 51.99% of users gave Silgan an outperform vote.
Crown pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Silgan pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Crown pays out 28.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Silgan pays out 26.7% 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 Silgan has raised its dividend for 21 consecutive years. Silgan is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Crown has higher revenue and earnings than Silgan. Silgan is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Crown, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Crown beats Silgan on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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