PTVE vs. SEE, SON, REYN, CRI, CENT, PLTK, PENN, SVV, LRN, and UA
Should you be buying Pactiv Evergreen stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pactiv Evergreen include Sealed Air (SEE), Sonoco Products (SON), Reynolds Consumer Products (REYN), Carter's (CRI), Central Garden & Pet (CENT), Playtika (PLTK), PENN Entertainment (PENN), Savers Value Village (SVV), Stride (LRN), and Under Armour (UA).
Sealed Air (NYSE:SEE) and Pactiv Evergreen (NASDAQ:PTVE) 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 risk, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, profitability and media sentiment.
94.4% of Sealed Air shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.2% of Pactiv Evergreen shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Sealed Air shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Pactiv Evergreen shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Sealed Air has a net margin of 6.22% compared to Sealed Air's net margin of -4.05%. Pactiv Evergreen's return on equity of 107.48% beat Sealed Air's return on equity.
Sealed Air has a beta of 1.28, suggesting that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pactiv Evergreen has a beta of 1.5, suggesting that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sealed Air received 440 more outperform votes than Pactiv Evergreen when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.45% of users gave Sealed Air an outperform vote while only 40.58% of users gave Pactiv Evergreen an outperform vote.
Sealed Air pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Pactiv Evergreen pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Sealed Air pays out 33.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Pactiv Evergreen pays out -31.7% 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. Pactiv Evergreen is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Sealed Air presently has a consensus price target of $44.18, suggesting a potential upside of 39.55%. Pactiv Evergreen has a consensus price target of $16.00, suggesting a potential upside of 8.84%. Given Pactiv Evergreen's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Sealed Air is more favorable than Pactiv Evergreen.
Sealed Air has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Pactiv Evergreen. Pactiv Evergreen is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sealed Air, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Sealed Air had 4 more articles in the media than Pactiv Evergreen. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Sealed Air and 2 mentions for Pactiv Evergreen. Sealed Air's average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat Pactiv Evergreen's score of 0.51 indicating that Pactiv Evergreen is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Sealed Air beats Pactiv Evergreen on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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