ATR vs. CCK, BERY, SLGN, GEF, OI, MYE, ENTG, AZEK, AWI, and NWL
Should you be buying AptarGroup stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AptarGroup include Crown (CCK), Berry Global Group (BERY), Silgan (SLGN), Greif (GEF), O-I Glass (OI), Myers Industries (MYE), Entegris (ENTG), AZEK (AZEK), Armstrong World Industries (AWI), and Newell Brands (NWL).
Crown (NYSE:CCK) and AptarGroup (NYSE:ATR) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, dividends, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations and valuation.
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 has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Crown is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
AptarGroup has a net margin of 8.83% compared to AptarGroup's net margin of 3.51%. AptarGroup's return on equity of 23.95% beat Crown's return on equity.
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.
Crown has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AptarGroup has a beta of 0.6, indicating that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, AptarGroup had 7 more articles in the media than Crown. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for AptarGroup and 10 mentions for Crown. Crown's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat AptarGroup's score of 0.80 indicating that AptarGroup is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Crown presently has a consensus target price of $99.29, suggesting a potential upside of 20.77%. AptarGroup has a consensus target price of $160.67, suggesting a potential upside of 10.39%. Given AptarGroup's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Crown is more favorable than AptarGroup.
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 hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Crown beats AptarGroup on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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