SEE vs. ZWS, CWST, ATKR, SON, MSM, VMI, SLGN, TKR, FLS, and ESAB
Should you be buying Sealed Air stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sealed Air include Zurn Elkay Water Solutions (ZWS), Casella Waste Systems (CWST), Atkore (ATKR), Sonoco Products (SON), MSC Industrial Direct (MSM), Valmont Industries (VMI), Silgan (SLGN), Timken (TKR), Flowserve (FLS), and ESAB (ESAB). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions (NYSE:ZWS) and Sealed Air (NYSE:SEE) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, valuation, dividends and media sentiment.
Sealed Air received 446 more outperform votes than Zurn Elkay Water Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.32% of users gave Sealed Air an outperform vote while only 41.51% of users gave Zurn Elkay Water Solutions an outperform vote.
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Sealed Air pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Zurn Elkay Water Solutions pays out 45.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sealed Air pays out 32.1% 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. Zurn Elkay Water Solutions has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Sealed Air is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Sealed Air has higher revenue and earnings than Zurn Elkay Water Solutions. Sealed Air is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Zurn Elkay Water Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sealed Air has a beta of 1.31, indicating that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions presently has a consensus target price of $33.50, suggesting a potential upside of 2.98%. Sealed Air has a consensus target price of $43.50, suggesting a potential upside of 11.88%. Given Zurn Elkay Water Solutions' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Sealed Air is more favorable than Zurn Elkay Water Solutions.
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions has a net margin of 8.11% compared to Zurn Elkay Water Solutions' net margin of 6.61%. Zurn Elkay Water Solutions' return on equity of 94.93% beat Sealed Air's return on equity.
83.3% of Zurn Elkay Water Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.4% of Sealed Air shares are held by institutional investors. 3.8% of Zurn Elkay Water Solutions shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Sealed Air shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Sealed Air had 15 more articles in the media than Zurn Elkay Water Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Sealed Air and 3 mentions for Zurn Elkay Water Solutions. Sealed Air's average media sentiment score of 1.77 beat Zurn Elkay Water Solutions' score of 0.32 indicating that Zurn Elkay Water Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Sealed Air beats Zurn Elkay Water Solutions on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding SEE and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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