GEF.B vs. AMBP, JBDI, SW, BALL, ATR, GPK, SEE, SON, GEF, and UFPT
Should you be buying Greif Bros. stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Greif Bros. include Ardagh Metal Packaging (AMBP), JBDI (JBDI), Smurfit Westrock (SW), Ball (BALL), AptarGroup (ATR), Graphic Packaging (GPK), Sealed Air (SEE), Sonoco Products (SON), Greif (GEF), and UFP Technologies (UFPT).
Greif Bros. vs. Its Competitors
Greif Bros. (NYSE:GEF.B) and Ardagh Metal Packaging (NYSE:AMBP) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, dividends and risk.
Greif Bros. has a beta of 0.84, indicating that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ardagh Metal Packaging has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.
5.1% of Greif Bros. shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.9% of Ardagh Metal Packaging shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.2% of Greif Bros. shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Ardagh Metal Packaging shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Greif Bros. has higher revenue and earnings than Ardagh Metal Packaging. Ardagh Metal Packaging is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Greif Bros., indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Ardagh Metal Packaging had 5 more articles in the media than Greif Bros.. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Ardagh Metal Packaging and 3 mentions for Greif Bros.. Ardagh Metal Packaging's average media sentiment score of 0.27 beat Greif Bros.'s score of 0.00 indicating that Ardagh Metal Packaging is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Greif Bros. pays an annual dividend of $3.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Ardagh Metal Packaging pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.8%. Greif Bros. pays out 89.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ardagh Metal Packaging pays out -1,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ardagh Metal Packaging is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Ardagh Metal Packaging has a consensus target price of $3.84, suggesting a potential downside of 15.14%. Given Ardagh Metal Packaging's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Ardagh Metal Packaging is more favorable than Greif Bros..
Greif Bros. has a net margin of 3.74% compared to Ardagh Metal Packaging's net margin of 0.08%. Greif Bros.'s return on equity of 10.21% beat Ardagh Metal Packaging's return on equity.
Summary
Greif Bros. beats Ardagh Metal Packaging on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:GEF.B) was last updated on 7/4/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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