BALL vs. SW, AMBP, GEF-B, CCK, SLGN, CTAS, ITW, PH, EMR, and GWW
Should you be buying Ball stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ball include Smurfit Westrock (SW), Ardagh Metal Packaging (AMBP), Greif (GEF-B), Crown (CCK), Silgan (SLGN), Cintas (CTAS), Illinois Tool Works (ITW), Parker-Hannifin (PH), Emerson Electric (EMR), and W.W. Grainger (GWW).
Smurfit Westrock (NYSE:SW) and Ball (NYSE:BALL) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
Ball has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Smurfit Westrock. Ball is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Smurfit Westrock, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Ball had 56 more articles in the media than Smurfit Westrock. MarketBeat recorded 58 mentions for Ball and 2 mentions for Smurfit Westrock. Smurfit Westrock's average media sentiment score of 0.44 beat Ball's score of 0.40 indicating that Ball is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Smurfit Westrock pays an annual dividend of $1.21 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Ball pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Smurfit Westrock pays out 101.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ball pays out 6.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Smurfit Westrock has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ball has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Smurfit Westrock currently has a consensus price target of $59.33, suggesting a potential upside of 21.56%. Ball has a consensus price target of $69.08, suggesting a potential upside of 9.51%. Given Ball's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Smurfit Westrock is more favorable than Ball.
Ball received 11 more outperform votes than Smurfit Westrock when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.67% of users gave Smurfit Westrock an outperform vote while only 15.85% of users gave Ball an outperform vote.
83.4% of Smurfit Westrock shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.5% of Ball shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Smurfit Westrock shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Ball shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Ball has a net margin of 31.42% compared to Ball's net margin of 1.57%. Smurfit Westrock's return on equity of 21.79% beat Ball's return on equity.
Summary
Ball beats Smurfit Westrock on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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