CCK vs. ATR, BERY, SLGN, GEF, OI, MYE, BALL, AMBP, XYL, and ROK
Should you be buying Crown stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Crown include AptarGroup (ATR), Berry Global Group (BERY), Silgan (SLGN), Greif (GEF), O-I Glass (OI), Myers Industries (MYE), Ball (BALL), Ardagh Metal Packaging (AMBP), Xylem (XYL), and Rockwell Automation (ROK). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
AptarGroup (NYSE:ATR) and Crown (NYSE:CCK) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
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 media.
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 pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Crown pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. AptarGroup pays out 35.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Crown pays out 28.8% 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 increased its dividend for 31 consecutive years. Crown is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
88.5% of AptarGroup shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.9% of Crown shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of AptarGroup shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Crown 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.
AptarGroup has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Crown has a beta of 0.85, suggesting that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
AptarGroup currently has a consensus target price of $169.00, indicating a potential upside of 15.29%. Crown has a consensus target price of $100.21, indicating a potential upside of 16.99%. Given AptarGroup's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Crown is more favorable than AptarGroup.
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.
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.
Summary
Crown beats AptarGroup on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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