BERY vs. CCK, ATR, SLGN, GEF, OI, MYE, ENTG, AZEK, AWI, and NWL
Should you be buying Berry Global Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Berry Global Group include Crown (CCK), AptarGroup (ATR), Silgan (SLGN), Greif (GEF), O-I Glass (OI), Myers Industries (MYE), Entegris (ENTG), AZEK (AZEK), Armstrong World Industries (AWI), and Newell Brands (NWL).
Berry Global Group (NYSE:BERY) and Crown (NYSE:CCK) are both industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and community ranking.
Berry Global Group has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Crown has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Berry Global Group pays an annual dividend of $1.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Crown pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Berry Global Group pays out 26.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Crown pays out 28.8% 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. Berry Global Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Berry Global Group currently has a consensus target price of $72.60, indicating a potential upside of 21.20%. Crown has a consensus target price of $99.29, indicating a potential upside of 19.35%. Given Berry Global Group's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Berry Global Group is more favorable than Crown.
Berry Global Group has higher revenue and earnings than Crown. Berry Global Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Crown, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Crown received 47 more outperform votes than Berry Global Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.09% of users gave Berry Global Group an outperform vote while only 64.34% of users gave Crown an outperform vote.
Berry Global Group has a net margin of 4.12% compared to Crown's net margin of 3.51%. Berry Global Group's return on equity of 26.55% beat Crown's return on equity.
95.4% of Berry Global Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.9% of Crown shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.0% of Berry Global Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Crown shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Berry Global Group had 10 more articles in the media than Crown. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Berry Global Group and 5 mentions for Crown. Crown's average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat Berry Global Group's score of 1.15 indicating that Crown is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Berry Global Group beats Crown on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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