SEE vs. FELE, WIRE, SLGN, VMI, MSM, CWST, VRRM, ZWS, TEX, and SON
Should you be buying Sealed Air stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sealed Air include Franklin Electric (FELE), Encore Wire (WIRE), Silgan (SLGN), Valmont Industries (VMI), MSC Industrial Direct (MSM), Casella Waste Systems (CWST), Verra Mobility (VRRM), Zurn Elkay Water Solutions (ZWS), Terex (TEX), and Sonoco Products (SON). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Franklin Electric (NASDAQ:FELE) and Sealed Air (NYSE:SEE) 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 dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.
In the previous week, Franklin Electric had 8 more articles in the media than Sealed Air. MarketBeat recorded 37 mentions for Franklin Electric and 29 mentions for Sealed Air. Franklin Electric's average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat Sealed Air's score of 0.08 indicating that Sealed Air is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Franklin Electric presently has a consensus target price of $100.00, indicating a potential upside of 1.11%. Sealed Air has a consensus target price of $43.91, indicating a potential upside of 24.85%. Given Franklin Electric's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Sealed Air is more favorable than Franklin Electric.
Sealed Air received 173 more outperform votes than Franklin Electric when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 55.45% of users gave Franklin Electric an outperform vote while only 55.38% of users gave Sealed Air an outperform vote.
Sealed Air has higher revenue and earnings than Franklin Electric. Sealed Air is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Franklin Electric, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Franklin Electric has a net margin of 9.25% compared to Franklin Electric's net margin of 6.61%. Franklin Electric's return on equity of 94.93% beat Sealed Air's return on equity.
Franklin Electric has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sealed Air has a beta of 1.31, meaning that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.
80.0% of Franklin Electric shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.4% of Sealed Air shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of Franklin Electric shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Sealed Air shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Franklin Electric pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Sealed Air pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Franklin Electric pays out 24.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sealed Air pays out 32.1% 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. Franklin Electric has raised its dividend for 32 consecutive years.
Summary
Franklin Electric and Sealed Air tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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