GEF vs. CCK, ATR, BERY, SLGN, OI, MYE, AOS, LECO, TTEK, and ALLE
Should you be buying Greif stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Greif include Crown (CCK), AptarGroup (ATR), Berry Global Group (BERY), Silgan (SLGN), O-I Glass (OI), Myers Industries (MYE), A. O. Smith (AOS), Lincoln Electric (LECO), Tetra Tech (TTEK), and Allegion (ALLE). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Crown (NYSE:CCK) and Greif (NYSE:GEF) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, risk, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.
Crown has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Greif has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Crown has higher revenue and earnings than Greif. Greif is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Crown, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Crown received 300 more outperform votes than Greif when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.34% of users gave Crown an outperform vote while only 55.75% of users gave Greif an outperform vote.
90.9% of Crown shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.7% of Greif shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Crown shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of Greif shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Crown currently has a consensus price target of $99.29, suggesting a potential upside of 17.92%. Greif has a consensus price target of $77.25, suggesting a potential upside of 18.92%. Given Crown's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Greif is more favorable than Crown.
Crown pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Greif pays an annual dividend of $2.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Crown pays out 28.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Greif pays out 36.0% 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. Crown has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Greif has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
Greif has a net margin of 6.53% compared to Greif's net margin of 3.51%. Greif's return on equity of 23.95% beat Crown's return on equity.
In the previous week, Crown had 2 more articles in the media than Greif. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Crown and 3 mentions for Greif. Greif's average media sentiment score of 1.39 beat Crown's score of 0.38 indicating that Crown is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Crown beats Greif on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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