VIRC vs. PACK, MATV, RYAM, DSY, ILAG, ITP, SUZ, SLVM, PTVE, and MLKN
Should you be buying Virco Mfg. stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Virco Mfg. include Ranpak (PACK), Mativ (MATV), Rayonier Advanced Materials (RYAM), Big Tree Cloud (DSY), Intelligent Living Application Group (ILAG), IT Tech Packaging (ITP), Suzano (SUZ), Sylvamo (SLVM), Pactiv Evergreen (PTVE), and MillerKnoll (MLKN). These companies are all part of the "business supplies" industry.
Virco Mfg. vs.
Virco Mfg. (NASDAQ:VIRC) and Ranpak (NYSE:PACK) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, valuation and institutional ownership.
Virco Mfg. presently has a consensus target price of $17.00, suggesting a potential upside of 47.83%. Ranpak has a consensus target price of $8.50, suggesting a potential upside of 7.73%. Given Virco Mfg.'s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Virco Mfg. is more favorable than Ranpak.
31.0% of Virco Mfg. shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.9% of Ranpak shares are held by institutional investors. 17.5% of Virco Mfg. shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.4% of Ranpak shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Virco Mfg. has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ranpak has a beta of 2.42, meaning that its stock price is 142% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Virco Mfg. has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Ranpak. Ranpak is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Virco Mfg., indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Virco Mfg. received 143 more outperform votes than Ranpak when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.47% of users gave Virco Mfg. an outperform vote while only 37.50% of users gave Ranpak an outperform vote.
Virco Mfg. has a net margin of 8.93% compared to Ranpak's net margin of -5.64%. Virco Mfg.'s return on equity of 24.63% beat Ranpak's return on equity.
In the previous week, Virco Mfg. had 6 more articles in the media than Ranpak. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Virco Mfg. and 1 mentions for Ranpak. Ranpak's average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Virco Mfg.'s score of 0.03 indicating that Ranpak is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Virco Mfg. beats Ranpak on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:VIRC) was last updated on 12/18/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
