SLGN vs. AIT, DOV, CCK, ATR, BERY, GEF, OI, MYE, BALL, and HUBB
Should you be buying Silgan stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Silgan include Applied Industrial Technologies (AIT), Dover (DOV), Crown (CCK), AptarGroup (ATR), Berry Global Group (BERY), Greif (GEF), O-I Glass (OI), Myers Industries (MYE), Ball (BALL), and Hubbell (HUBB). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Silgan vs. Its Competitors
Applied Industrial Technologies (NYSE:AIT) and Silgan (NYSE:SLGN) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and dividends.
Applied Industrial Technologies presently has a consensus target price of $285.00, suggesting a potential upside of 16.10%. Silgan has a consensus target price of $63.11, suggesting a potential upside of 11.37%. Given Applied Industrial Technologies' higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Applied Industrial Technologies is more favorable than Silgan.
Applied Industrial Technologies pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Silgan pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Applied Industrial Technologies pays out 18.5% 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. Applied Industrial Technologies has raised its dividend for 16 consecutive years and Silgan has raised its dividend for 22 consecutive years. Silgan is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Applied Industrial Technologies had 2 more articles in the media than Silgan. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Applied Industrial Technologies and 3 mentions for Silgan. Applied Industrial Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.50 beat Silgan's score of 0.76 indicating that Applied Industrial Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Applied Industrial Technologies has a net margin of 8.64% compared to Silgan's net margin of 4.82%. Applied Industrial Technologies' return on equity of 22.01% beat Silgan's return on equity.
93.5% of Applied Industrial Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.3% of Silgan shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of Applied Industrial Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Silgan shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Applied Industrial Technologies has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Silgan has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Applied Industrial Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Silgan. Silgan is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Applied Industrial Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Applied Industrial Technologies beats Silgan on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (NYSE:SLGN) was last updated on 7/7/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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