AMBP vs. SLGN, XRX, SXI, TNC, HEES, AZZ, EPAC, KMT, PLUG, and LZ
Should you be buying Ardagh Metal Packaging stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ardagh Metal Packaging include Silgan (SLGN), Xerox (XRX), Standex International (SXI), Tennant (TNC), H&E Equipment Services (HEES), AZZ (AZZ), Enerpac Tool Group (EPAC), Kennametal (KMT), Plug Power (PLUG), and LegalZoom.com (LZ). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Silgan (NYSE:SLGN) and Ardagh Metal Packaging (NYSE:AMBP) are both mid-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, community ranking, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation and media sentiment.
Silgan received 324 more outperform votes than Ardagh Metal Packaging when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 51.91% of users gave Silgan an outperform vote while only 24.19% of users gave Ardagh Metal Packaging an outperform vote.
70.3% of Silgan shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.9% of Ardagh Metal Packaging shares are held by institutional investors. 13.1% of Silgan shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Ardagh Metal Packaging shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Silgan presently has a consensus price target of $53.13, suggesting a potential upside of 13.47%. Ardagh Metal Packaging has a consensus price target of $4.31, suggesting a potential upside of 24.82%. Given Silgan's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Ardagh Metal Packaging is more favorable than Silgan.
Silgan has a net margin of 5.44% compared to Silgan's net margin of -1.04%. Silgan's return on equity of 38.48% beat Ardagh Metal Packaging's return on equity.
Silgan has higher revenue and earnings than Ardagh Metal Packaging. Ardagh Metal Packaging is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Silgan, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Silgan pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Ardagh Metal Packaging pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.6%. Silgan pays out 25.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ardagh Metal Packaging pays out -333.3% 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. Silgan has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Ardagh Metal Packaging is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Ardagh Metal Packaging had 3 more articles in the media than Silgan. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Ardagh Metal Packaging and 3 mentions for Silgan. Silgan's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Ardagh Metal Packaging's score of 0.57 indicating that Ardagh Metal Packaging is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Silgan has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ardagh Metal Packaging has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Silgan beats Ardagh Metal Packaging on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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