Silgan (SLGN) Competitors

Crown (NYSE:CCK) and Silgan (NYSE:SLGN) are both industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, earnings and community ranking.

Do analysts rate CCK or SLGN?

Crown currently has a consensus target price of $110.45, suggesting a potential upside of 13.26%. Silgan has a consensus target price of $63.11, suggesting a potential upside of 16.59%. Given Silgan's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Silgan is more favorable than Crown.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Crown	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	9 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.82
Silgan	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	8 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.11

Does the MarketBeat Community favor CCK or SLGN?

Crown received 249 more outperform votes than Silgan when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.08% of users gave Crown an outperform vote while only 53.15% of users gave Silgan an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Crown	Outperform Votes 612 64.08%	Underperform Votes 343 35.92%
Silgan	Outperform Votes 363 53.15%	Underperform Votes 320 46.85%

Does the media prefer CCK or SLGN?

In the previous week, Crown had 23 more articles in the media than Silgan. MarketBeat recorded 40 mentions for Crown and 17 mentions for Silgan. Silgan's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Crown's score of 0.72 indicating that Silgan is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Crown	17 Very Positive mention(s)	7 Positive mention(s)	8 Neutral mention(s)	8 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Silgan	11 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Is CCK or SLGN a better dividend stock?

Crown pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Silgan pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Crown pays out 22.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Silgan pays out 29.7% 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. Crown has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years and Silgan has increased its dividend for 22 consecutive years. Silgan is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Do insiders & institutionals hold more shares of CCK or SLGN?

90.9% of Crown shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.3% of Silgan shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Crown shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Silgan shares are owned by company 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.

Which has stronger valuation and earnings, CCK or SLGN?

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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Crown	$11.90B	0.95	$424M	$4.65	20.97
Silgan	$6.00B	0.96	$276.40M	$2.69	20.12

Which has more volatility and risk, CCK or SLGN?

Crown has a beta of 0.76, suggesting that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Silgan has a beta of 0.74, suggesting that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is CCK or SLGN more profitable?

Silgan has a net margin of 4.72% compared to Crown's net margin of 3.59%. Crown's return on equity of 25.12% beat Silgan's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Crown	3.59%	25.12%	5.23%
Silgan	4.72%	19.70%	4.91%

Summary

Crown beats Silgan on 13 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.