ATR vs. CCK, BERY, SLGN, GEF, OI, MYE, ENTG, AZEK, AWI, and NWL
Should you be buying AptarGroup stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AptarGroup include Crown (CCK), Berry Global Group (BERY), Silgan (SLGN), Greif (GEF), O-I Glass (OI), Myers Industries (MYE), Entegris (ENTG), AZEK (AZEK), Armstrong World Industries (AWI), and Newell Brands (NWL).
Crown (NYSE:CCK) and AptarGroup (NYSE:ATR) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, earnings, risk, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Crown received 269 more outperform votes than AptarGroup when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.37% of users gave Crown an outperform vote while only 57.04% of users gave AptarGroup an outperform vote.
AptarGroup has a net margin of 8.83% compared to AptarGroup's net margin of 3.68%. AptarGroup's return on equity of 23.96% beat Crown's return on equity.
Crown presently has a consensus target price of $100.21, suggesting a potential upside of 16.99%. AptarGroup has a consensus target price of $169.00, suggesting a potential upside of 15.29%. Given AptarGroup's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Crown is more favorable than AptarGroup.
In the previous week, Crown had 40 more articles in the media than AptarGroup. MarketBeat recorded 56 mentions for Crown and 16 mentions for AptarGroup. Crown's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat AptarGroup's score of 0.57 indicating that AptarGroup is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Crown pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. AptarGroup pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Crown pays out 28.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. AptarGroup pays out 35.2% 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. AptarGroup has raised its dividend for 31 consecutive years. Crown is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
90.9% of Crown shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.5% of AptarGroup shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Crown shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of AptarGroup shares are held 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.
Crown has higher revenue and earnings than AptarGroup. Crown is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AptarGroup, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Crown has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AptarGroup has a beta of 0.57, indicating that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Crown beats AptarGroup on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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