SLGN vs. CCK, ATR, BERY, GEF, OI, MYE, BALL, AMBP, HUBB, and TS
Should you be buying Silgan stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Silgan include Crown (CCK), AptarGroup (ATR), Berry Global Group (BERY), Greif (GEF), O-I Glass (OI), Myers Industries (MYE), Ball (BALL), Ardagh Metal Packaging (AMBP), Hubbell (HUBB), and Tenaris (TS). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Silgan vs.
Crown (NYSE:CCK) and Silgan (NYSE:SLGN) are both industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, valuation, dividends and analyst recommendations.
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.
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.
Crown currently has a consensus price target of $110.45, suggesting a potential upside of 12.10%. Silgan has a consensus price target of $63.11, suggesting a potential upside of 13.24%. Given Silgan's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Silgan is more favorable than Crown.
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 1.4%. 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 raised its dividend for 4 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.
90.9% of Crown shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.3% of Silgan shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Crown shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Silgan shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Crown had 11 more articles in the media than Silgan. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Crown and 16 mentions for Silgan. Silgan's average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat Crown's score of 1.02 indicating that Silgan is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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.
Crown has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Silgan has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Crown beats Silgan on 13 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:SLGN) was last updated on 5/28/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
