AA vs. ATR, MIDD, BERY, GPK, TTEK, DCI, VMI, RBC, ADT, and PLUG
Should you be buying Alcoa stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alcoa include AptarGroup (ATR), Middleby (MIDD), Berry Global Group (BERY), Graphic Packaging (GPK), Tetra Tech (TTEK), Donaldson (DCI), Valmont Industries (VMI), RBC Bearings (RBC), ADT (ADT), and Plug Power (PLUG). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Alcoa vs.
Alcoa (NYSE:AA) and AptarGroup (NYSE:ATR) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, valuation and community ranking.
AptarGroup has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Alcoa. Alcoa is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AptarGroup, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AptarGroup has a net margin of 7.20% compared to Alcoa's net margin of -0.82%. Alcoa's return on equity of 13.17% beat AptarGroup's return on equity.
Alcoa pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. AptarGroup pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Alcoa pays out -47.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. AptarGroup pays out 42.5% 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.
Alcoa received 700 more outperform votes than AptarGroup when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.20% of users gave Alcoa an outperform vote while only 57.06% of users gave AptarGroup an outperform vote.
89.4% of AptarGroup shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of AptarGroup shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Alcoa had 7 more articles in the media than AptarGroup. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Alcoa and 3 mentions for AptarGroup. AptarGroup's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Alcoa's score of 0.08 indicating that AptarGroup is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Alcoa presently has a consensus price target of $50.00, indicating a potential upside of 22.13%. AptarGroup has a consensus price target of $122.33, indicating a potential upside of 5.58%. Given Alcoa's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Alcoa is more favorable than AptarGroup.
Alcoa has a beta of 2.45, suggesting that its share price is 145% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AptarGroup has a beta of 0.63, suggesting that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
AptarGroup beats Alcoa on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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