AVY vs. PKG, IEX, GGG, NDSN, CNHI, ZBRA, LECO, BALL, SWK, and AMCR
Should you be buying Avery Dennison stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Avery Dennison include Packaging Co. of America (PKG), IDEX (IEX), Graco (GGG), Nordson (NDSN), CNH Industrial (CNHI), Zebra Technologies (ZBRA), Lincoln Electric (LECO), Ball (BALL), Stanley Black & Decker (SWK), and Amcor (AMCR). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Packaging Co. of America (NYSE:PKG) and Avery Dennison (NYSE:AVY) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, risk and community ranking.
Packaging Co. of America presently has a consensus target price of $165.33, suggesting a potential downside of 8.65%. Avery Dennison has a consensus target price of $218.78, suggesting a potential upside of 2.01%. Given Packaging Co. of America's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Avery Dennison is more favorable than Packaging Co. of America.
Packaging Co. of America received 100 more outperform votes than Avery Dennison when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.04% of users gave Packaging Co. of America an outperform vote while only 57.10% of users gave Avery Dennison an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Avery Dennison had 2 more articles in the media than Packaging Co. of America. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Avery Dennison and 9 mentions for Packaging Co. of America. Avery Dennison's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Packaging Co. of America's score of 0.26 indicating that Packaging Co. of America is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Packaging Co. of America has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Avery Dennison has a beta of 0.9, indicating that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Packaging Co. of America has a net margin of 9.81% compared to Packaging Co. of America's net margin of 6.01%. Packaging Co. of America's return on equity of 30.97% beat Avery Dennison's return on equity.
Packaging Co. of America pays an annual dividend of $5.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Avery Dennison pays an annual dividend of $3.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Packaging Co. of America pays out 59.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Avery Dennison pays out 52.2% 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. Avery Dennison has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years.
Packaging Co. of America has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Avery Dennison. Packaging Co. of America is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Avery Dennison, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
90.5% of Packaging Co. of America shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.1% of Avery Dennison shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of Packaging Co. of America shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Avery Dennison shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Avery Dennison beats Packaging Co. of America on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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