CCK vs. SLGN, BALL, ATR, TTEK, ALLE, RRX, DCI, AGCO, GPK, and AOS
Should you be buying Crown stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Crown include Silgan (SLGN), Ball (BALL), AptarGroup (ATR), Tetra Tech (TTEK), Allegion (ALLE), Regal Rexnord (RRX), Donaldson (DCI), AGCO (AGCO), Graphic Packaging (GPK), and A. O. Smith (AOS). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Silgan (NYSE:SLGN) and Crown (NYSE:CCK) are both industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.
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.
Silgan currently has a consensus price target of $53.00, suggesting a potential upside of 12.43%. Crown has a consensus price target of $99.29, suggesting a potential upside of 18.42%. Given Silgan's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Crown is more favorable than Silgan.
In the previous week, Crown had 4 more articles in the media than Silgan. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Crown and 24 mentions for Silgan. Silgan's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Crown's score of 0.29 indicating that Crown is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Silgan pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Crown pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Silgan pays out 26.7% 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. Silgan has increased its dividend for 21 consecutive years and Crown has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Silgan is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Silgan has a beta of 0.69, meaning that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Crown has a beta of 0.88, meaning that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
70.3% of Silgan shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.9% of Crown shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Silgan shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Crown shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
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 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 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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