AVY vs. RS, ZBRA, HUBB, AXON, NDSN, PKG, SWK, GGG, AMCR, and IEX
Should you be buying Avery Dennison stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Avery Dennison include Reliance Steel & Aluminum (RS), Zebra Technologies (ZBRA), Hubbell (HUBB), Axon Enterprise (AXON), Nordson (NDSN), Packaging Co. of America (PKG), Stanley Black & Decker (SWK), Graco (GGG), Amcor (AMCR), and IDEX (IEX). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Avery Dennison vs.
Avery Dennison (NYSE:AVY) and Reliance Steel & Aluminum (NYSE:RS) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership and profitability.
Avery Dennison pays an annual dividend of $3.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Reliance Steel & Aluminum pays an annual dividend of $4.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Avery Dennison pays out 32.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Reliance Steel & Aluminum pays out 13.4% 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.
Reliance Steel & Aluminum received 72 more outperform votes than Avery Dennison when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.94% of users gave Reliance Steel & Aluminum an outperform vote while only 57.37% of users gave Avery Dennison an outperform vote.
Reliance Steel & Aluminum has a net margin of 10.81% compared to Avery Dennison's net margin of 8.38%. Avery Dennison's return on equity of 38.05% beat Reliance Steel & Aluminum's return on equity.
In the previous week, Reliance Steel & Aluminum had 3 more articles in the media than Avery Dennison. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Reliance Steel & Aluminum and 8 mentions for Avery Dennison. Avery Dennison's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat Reliance Steel & Aluminum's score of 0.64 indicating that Avery Dennison is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Avery Dennison has a beta of 0.98, meaning that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Reliance Steel & Aluminum has a beta of 0.89, meaning that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
89.1% of Avery Dennison shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.7% of Reliance Steel & Aluminum shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Avery Dennison shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Reliance Steel & Aluminum shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Reliance Steel & Aluminum has higher revenue and earnings than Avery Dennison. Reliance Steel & Aluminum is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Avery Dennison, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Avery Dennison currently has a consensus target price of $207.10, suggesting a potential upside of 21.35%. Reliance Steel & Aluminum has a consensus target price of $261.20, suggesting a potential upside of 5.53%. Given Avery Dennison's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Avery Dennison is more favorable than Reliance Steel & Aluminum.
Summary
Avery Dennison beats Reliance Steel & Aluminum on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
Avery Dennison Competitors List
