SON vs. PKG, GPK, SEE, UFPT, WRK, HUBB, AXON, BALL, TS, and AVY
Should you be buying Sonoco Products stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sonoco Products include Packaging Co. of America (PKG), Graphic Packaging (GPK), Sealed Air (SEE), UFP Technologies (UFPT), WestRock (WRK), Hubbell (HUBB), Axon Enterprise (AXON), Ball (BALL), Tenaris (TS), and Avery Dennison (AVY).
Sonoco Products (NYSE:SON) and Packaging Co. of America (NYSE:PKG) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.
Sonoco Products has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Packaging Co. of America has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Packaging Co. of America has a net margin of 9.25% compared to Sonoco Products' net margin of 5.86%. Sonoco Products' return on equity of 20.79% beat Packaging Co. of America's return on equity.
77.7% of Sonoco Products shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.8% of Packaging Co. of America shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Sonoco Products shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Packaging Co. of America shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Packaging Co. of America had 5 more articles in the media than Sonoco Products. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Packaging Co. of America and 5 mentions for Sonoco Products. Packaging Co. of America's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Sonoco Products' score of 0.30 indicating that Packaging Co. of America is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Packaging Co. of America has higher revenue and earnings than Sonoco Products. Sonoco Products is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Packaging Co. of America, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sonoco Products currently has a consensus target price of $63.33, suggesting a potential upside of 3.20%. Packaging Co. of America has a consensus target price of $176.57, suggesting a potential downside of 3.77%. Given Sonoco Products' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Sonoco Products is more favorable than Packaging Co. of America.
Sonoco Products received 153 more outperform votes than Packaging Co. of America when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.24% of users gave Sonoco Products an outperform vote while only 58.96% of users gave Packaging Co. of America an outperform vote.
Sonoco Products pays an annual dividend of $2.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Packaging Co. of America pays an annual dividend of $5.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Sonoco Products pays out 52.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Packaging Co. of America pays out 62.5% 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. Sonoco Products is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Packaging Co. of America beats Sonoco Products on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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