Amcor (AMCR) Competitors

Tri-Continental (NYSE:TY) and Amcor (NYSE:AMCR) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, earnings, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership and media sentiment.

Is TY or AMCR a better dividend stock?

Tri-Continental pays an annual dividend of $3.85 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.1%. Amcor pays an annual dividend of $0.51 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. Amcor pays out 91.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Amcor has raised its dividend for 5 consecutive years.

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, TY or AMCR?

Amcor has higher revenue and earnings than Tri-Continental.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Tri-Continental	$321.66M	5.14	N/A	N/A	N/A
Amcor	$13.46B	0.99	$730M	$0.56	16.46

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of TY or AMCR?

10.2% of Tri-Continental shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.1% of Amcor shares are held by institutional investors. 8.7% of Tri-Continental shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Amcor shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Is TY or AMCR more profitable?

Amcor has a net margin of 5.89% compared to Tri-Continental's net margin of 0.00%. Amcor's return on equity of 26.14% beat Tri-Continental's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Tri-Continental	N/A	N/A	N/A
Amcor	5.89%	26.14%	6.21%

Do analysts rate TY or AMCR?

Amcor has a consensus price target of $11.31, indicating a potential upside of 22.71%. Given Amcor's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Amcor is more favorable than Tri-Continental.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Tri-Continental	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
Amcor	0 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	6 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.73

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in TY or AMCR?

Tri-Continental received 152 more outperform votes than Amcor when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.02% of users gave Tri-Continental an outperform vote while only 52.99% of users gave Amcor an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Tri-Continental	Outperform Votes 223 71.02%	Underperform Votes 91 28.98%
Amcor	Outperform Votes 71 52.99%	Underperform Votes 63 47.01%

Which has more risk and volatility, TY or AMCR?

Tri-Continental has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Amcor has a beta of 0.73, indicating that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media prefer TY or AMCR?

In the previous week, Amcor had 9 more articles in the media than Tri-Continental. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Amcor and 1 mentions for Tri-Continental. Tri-Continental's average media sentiment score of 1.56 beat Amcor's score of 1.03 indicating that Tri-Continental is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Tri-Continental	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive
Amcor	7 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

Amcor beats Tri-Continental on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.