Alcoa - AA Competitors

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.

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, AA or ATR?

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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Alcoa	$12.45 billion	0.59	-$123 million	-$0.85	-48.16
AptarGroup	$3.32 billion	2.28	$239.29 million	$3.58	32.37

Is AA or ATR more profitable?

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.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Alcoa	-0.82%	13.17%	5.80%
AptarGroup	7.20%	12.78%	5.98%

Is AA or ATR a better dividend stock?

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.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in AA or ATR?

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.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Alcoa	Outperform Votes 1011 69.20%	Underperform Votes 450 30.80%
AptarGroup	Outperform Votes 311 57.06%	Underperform Votes 234 42.94%

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of AA or ATR?

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.

Does the media favor AA or ATR?

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.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Alcoa	3 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
AptarGroup	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Do analysts rate AA or ATR?

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.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Alcoa	0 Sell rating(s)	6 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.25
AptarGroup	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.60

Which has more volatility & risk, AA or ATR?

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.