SW vs. BALL, GEF.B, AMBP, JBDI, PKG, GPK, SON, SHW, ECL, and RIO
Should you be buying Smurfit Westrock stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Smurfit Westrock include Ball (BALL), Greif (GEF.B), Ardagh Metal Packaging (AMBP), JBDI Holdings Limited Ordinary Shares (JBDI), Packaging Co. of America (PKG), Graphic Packaging (GPK), Sonoco Products (SON), Sherwin-Williams (SHW), Ecolab (ECL), and Rio Tinto Group (RIO).
Smurfit Westrock vs.
Smurfit Westrock (NYSE:SW) and Ball (NYSE:BALL) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings and media sentiment.
Smurfit Westrock presently has a consensus price target of $58.20, indicating a potential upside of 32.89%. Ball has a consensus price target of $61.00, indicating a potential upside of 10.84%. Given Smurfit Westrock's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Smurfit Westrock is more favorable than Ball.
Smurfit Westrock pays an annual dividend of $1.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Ball pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Smurfit Westrock pays out 141.0% 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 47.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, Ball had 41 more articles in the media than Smurfit Westrock. MarketBeat recorded 46 mentions for Ball and 5 mentions for Smurfit Westrock. Smurfit Westrock's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Ball's score of 0.41 indicating that Smurfit Westrock is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ball has a net margin of 33.98% compared to Smurfit Westrock's net margin of 0.63%. Ball's return on equity of 16.17% beat Smurfit Westrock's return on equity.
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 insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Ball shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Ball received 13 more outperform votes than Smurfit Westrock when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.91% of users gave Smurfit Westrock an outperform vote while only 26.55% of users gave Ball an outperform vote.
Smurfit Westrock has a beta of 1.04, meaning that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ball has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
Summary
Ball beats Smurfit Westrock on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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