AMCR vs. NDSN, CNHI, SWK, GGG, PNR, PKG, ZBRA, LECO, IEX, and AOS
Should you be buying Amcor stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Amcor include Nordson (NDSN), CNH Industrial (CNHI), Stanley Black & Decker (SWK), Graco (GGG), Pentair (PNR), Packaging Co. of America (PKG), Zebra Technologies (ZBRA), Lincoln Electric (LECO), IDEX (IEX), and A. O. Smith (AOS). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Nordson (NASDAQ:NDSN) and Amcor (NYSE:AMCR) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations and valuation.
In the previous week, Amcor had 9 more articles in the media than Nordson. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Amcor and 9 mentions for Nordson. Amcor's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Nordson's score of 0.76 indicating that Nordson is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Amcor has higher revenue and earnings than Nordson. Amcor is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nordson, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Nordson has a net margin of 18.59% compared to Nordson's net margin of 4.75%. Nordson's return on equity of 24.66% beat Amcor's return on equity.
Nordson has a beta of 1, meaning that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Amcor has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
72.1% of Nordson shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.1% of Amcor shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Nordson shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Amcor shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Nordson pays an annual dividend of $2.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Amcor pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Nordson pays out 31.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Amcor pays out 111.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Nordson has increased its dividend for 61 consecutive years and Amcor has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years.
Nordson received 383 more outperform votes than Amcor when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.43% of users gave Nordson an outperform vote while only 52.94% of users gave Amcor an outperform vote.
Nordson currently has a consensus price target of $278.00, indicating a potential upside of 2.34%. Amcor has a consensus price target of $10.00, indicating a potential downside of 2.63%. Given Amcor's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Nordson is more favorable than Amcor.
Summary
Nordson beats Amcor on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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