CCK vs. SLGN, ATR, GPK, RRX, MIDD, ALLE, SITE, MSA, AIT, and BERY
Should you be buying Crown stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Crown include Silgan (SLGN), AptarGroup (ATR), Graphic Packaging (GPK), Regal Rexnord (RRX), Middleby (MIDD), Allegion (ALLE), SiteOne Landscape Supply (SITE), MSA Safety (MSA), Applied Industrial Technologies (AIT), and Berry Global Group (BERY). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Crown (NYSE:CCK) and Silgan (NYSE:SLGN) are both mid-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.
90.9% of Crown shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.3% of Silgan shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Crown shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.1% of Silgan 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 presently has a consensus target price of $99.21, indicating a potential upside of 26.31%. Silgan has a consensus target price of $53.13, indicating a potential upside of 13.83%. Given Crown's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Crown is more favorable than Silgan.
Crown pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Silgan pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Crown pays out 26.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Silgan pays out 25.5% 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. Silgan is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Crown received 239 more outperform votes than Silgan when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.29% of users gave Crown an outperform vote while only 51.91% of users gave Silgan an outperform vote.
Crown has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Silgan has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Crown has higher revenue and earnings than Silgan. Silgan is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Crown, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Crown had 5 more articles in the media than Silgan. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Crown and 4 mentions for Silgan. Silgan's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Crown's score of 0.67 indicating that Silgan is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Silgan has a net margin of 5.44% compared to Crown's net margin of 3.75%. Crown's return on equity of 25.75% beat Silgan's return on equity.
Summary
Crown beats Silgan on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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