BALL vs. CCK, SLGN, TS, HUBB, IEX, XYL, DOV, AMCR, RS, and AXON
Should you be buying Ball stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ball include Crown (CCK), Silgan (SLGN), Tenaris (TS), Hubbell (HUBB), IDEX (IEX), Xylem (XYL), Dover (DOV), Amcor (AMCR), Reliance Steel & Aluminum (RS), and Axon Enterprise (AXON). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Ball vs.
Ball (NYSE:BALL) and Crown (NYSE:CCK) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, risk and media sentiment.
In the previous week, Ball had 50 more articles in the media than Crown. MarketBeat recorded 59 mentions for Ball and 9 mentions for Crown. Crown's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat Ball's score of 0.29 indicating that Crown is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Crown has a net margin of 4.81% compared to Ball's net margin of 2.98%. Crown's return on equity of 31.41% beat Ball's return on equity.
Ball has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Crown has a beta of 1.06, indicating that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ball presently has a consensus target price of $56.67, indicating a potential upside of 7.77%. Crown has a consensus target price of $97.60, indicating a potential upside of 16.48%. Given Crown's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Crown is more favorable than Ball.
Crown received 561 more outperform votes than Ball when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.81% of users gave Crown an outperform vote while only 7.32% of users gave Ball an outperform vote.
82.7% of Ball shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of Ball shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Crown shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Crown has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Ball. Crown is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ball, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ball pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Crown pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Ball pays out 56.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Crown pays out 18.9% 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.
Summary
Crown beats Ball on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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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.
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