AMCR vs. GAM, PMO, OIA, FUND, MQT, VTN, DOGZ, JEQ, CEE, and TOYO
Should you be buying Amcor stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Amcor include General American Investors (GAM), Putnam Municipal Opportunities Trust (PMO), Invesco Municipal Income Opportunities Trust (OIA), Sprott Focus Trust (FUND), BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund II (MQT), Invesco Trust for Investment Grade New York Municipals (VTN), Dogness (International) (DOGZ), Abrdn Japan Equity Fund (JEQ), The Central and Eastern Europe Fund (CEE), and TOYO (TOYO). These companies are all part of the "misc." industry.
General American Investors (NYSE:GAM) and Amcor (NYSE:AMCR) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.
General American Investors received 32 more outperform votes than Amcor when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.01% of users gave General American Investors an outperform vote while only 52.07% of users gave Amcor an outperform vote.
36.9% of General American Investors shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.1% of Amcor shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.3% of General American Investors shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Amcor shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Amcor has a net margin of 4.75% compared to Amcor's net margin of 0.00%. General American Investors' return on equity of 24.66% beat Amcor's return on equity.
General American Investors pays an annual dividend of $2.65 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. Amcor pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Amcor pays out 111.1% 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 a consensus target price of $10.15, suggesting a potential downside of 2.22%. Given General American Investors' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Amcor is more favorable than General American Investors.
In the previous week, General American Investors had 3 more articles in the media than Amcor. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for General American Investors and 8 mentions for Amcor. General American Investors' average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat Amcor's score of 0.01 indicating that Amcor is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
General American Investors has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Amcor has a beta of 0.86, meaning that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Amcor has higher revenue and earnings than General American Investors.
Summary
Amcor beats General American Investors on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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