AMBP vs. SLGN, ALG, LZ, AZZ, ATMU, OI, EPAC, TNC, AIN, and SXI
Should you be buying Ardagh Metal Packaging stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ardagh Metal Packaging include Silgan (SLGN), Alamo Group (ALG), LegalZoom.com (LZ), AZZ (AZZ), Atmus Filtration Technologies (ATMU), O-I Glass (OI), Enerpac Tool Group (EPAC), Tennant (TNC), Albany International (AIN), and Standex International (SXI). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Ardagh Metal Packaging (NYSE:AMBP) and Silgan (NYSE:SLGN) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings, profitability and media sentiment.
Silgan has higher revenue and earnings than Ardagh Metal Packaging. Ardagh Metal Packaging is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Silgan, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Silgan has a net margin of 5.25% compared to Ardagh Metal Packaging's net margin of -1.26%. Ardagh Metal Packaging's return on equity of 55.91% beat Silgan's return on equity.
In the previous week, Silgan had 11 more articles in the media than Ardagh Metal Packaging. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Silgan and 2 mentions for Ardagh Metal Packaging. Ardagh Metal Packaging's average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat Silgan's score of 0.32 indicating that Ardagh Metal Packaging is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ardagh Metal Packaging has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Silgan has a beta of 0.69, meaning that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Silgan received 325 more outperform votes than Ardagh Metal Packaging when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 51.99% of users gave Silgan an outperform vote while only 24.19% of users gave Ardagh Metal Packaging an outperform vote.
Ardagh Metal Packaging pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.1%. Silgan pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Ardagh Metal Packaging pays out -285.7% 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. Ardagh Metal Packaging is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Ardagh Metal Packaging presently has a consensus price target of $4.31, indicating a potential upside of 8.20%. Silgan has a consensus price target of $53.00, indicating a potential upside of 10.79%. Given Silgan's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Silgan is more favorable than Ardagh Metal Packaging.
16.9% of Ardagh Metal Packaging shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.3% of Silgan shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Ardagh Metal Packaging shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Silgan shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Silgan beats Ardagh Metal Packaging on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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