PTVE vs. SEE, SON, REYN, ATGE, CUK, ATAT, MCW, LAUR, CNK, and SVV
Should you be buying Pactiv Evergreen stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pactiv Evergreen include Sealed Air (SEE), Sonoco Products (SON), Reynolds Consumer Products (REYN), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Carnival Co. & (CUK), Atour Lifestyle (ATAT), Mister Car Wash (MCW), Laureate Education (LAUR), Cinemark (CNK), and Savers Value Village (SVV).
Sealed Air (NYSE:SEE) and Pactiv Evergreen (NASDAQ:PTVE) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership and dividends.
Sealed Air received 440 more outperform votes than Pactiv Evergreen when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.32% of users gave Sealed Air an outperform vote while only 40.58% of users gave Pactiv Evergreen an outperform vote.
94.4% of Sealed Air shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.2% of Pactiv Evergreen shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Sealed Air shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Pactiv Evergreen shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Sealed Air has a net margin of 6.61% compared to Sealed Air's net margin of -1.50%. Pactiv Evergreen's return on equity of 94.93% beat Sealed Air's return on equity.
Sealed Air has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Pactiv Evergreen. Pactiv Evergreen is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sealed Air, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sealed Air pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Pactiv Evergreen pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Sealed Air pays out 32.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Pactiv Evergreen pays out -87.0% 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. Pactiv Evergreen is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Sealed Air has a beta of 1.31, indicating that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pactiv Evergreen has a beta of 1.43, indicating that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Sealed Air had 15 more articles in the media than Pactiv Evergreen. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Sealed Air and 3 mentions for Pactiv Evergreen. Pactiv Evergreen's average media sentiment score of 0.32 beat Sealed Air's score of 0.00 indicating that Sealed Air is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Sealed Air currently has a consensus price target of $43.50, indicating a potential upside of 11.88%. Pactiv Evergreen has a consensus price target of $16.71, indicating a potential upside of 24.18%. Given Sealed Air's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Pactiv Evergreen is more favorable than Sealed Air.
Summary
Sealed Air beats Pactiv Evergreen on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding PTVE 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 NASDAQ 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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