AMBP vs. GEF.B, JBDI, SW, BALL, MLI, ESAB, CENX, KALU, TRS, and NWPX
Should you be buying Ardagh Metal Packaging stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ardagh Metal Packaging include Greif Bros. (GEF.B), JBDI (JBDI), Smurfit Westrock (SW), Ball (BALL), Mueller Industries (MLI), ESAB (ESAB), Century Aluminum (CENX), Kaiser Aluminum (KALU), TriMas (TRS), and Northwest Pipe (NWPX).
Ardagh Metal Packaging vs. Its Competitors
Ardagh Metal Packaging (NYSE:AMBP) and Greif Bros. (NYSE:GEF.B) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, valuation and dividends.
Ardagh Metal Packaging presently has a consensus target price of $3.64, suggesting a potential downside of 17.83%. Given Ardagh Metal Packaging's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Ardagh Metal Packaging is more favorable than Greif Bros..
Ardagh Metal Packaging has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Greif Bros. has a beta of 0.84, meaning that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Greif Bros. has a net margin of 3.74% compared to Ardagh Metal Packaging's net margin of 0.08%. Greif Bros.'s return on equity of 10.21% beat Ardagh Metal Packaging's return on equity.
16.9% of Ardagh Metal Packaging shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.1% of Greif Bros. shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of Ardagh Metal Packaging shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 16.2% of Greif Bros. shares are owned by 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.
In the previous week, Ardagh Metal Packaging had 5 more articles in the media than Greif Bros.. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Ardagh Metal Packaging and 2 mentions for Greif Bros.. Ardagh Metal Packaging's average media sentiment score of 0.33 beat Greif Bros.'s score of 0.24 indicating that Ardagh Metal Packaging is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ardagh Metal Packaging pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.0%. Greif Bros. pays an annual dividend of $3.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Ardagh Metal Packaging pays out -1,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Greif Bros. pays out 89.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ardagh Metal Packaging is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Greif Bros. has higher revenue and earnings than Ardagh Metal Packaging. Ardagh Metal Packaging is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Greif Bros., indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Greif Bros. beats Ardagh Metal Packaging on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:AMBP) was last updated on 7/3/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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