Amcor (AMCR) Competitors

General American Investors (NYSE:GAM) and Amcor (NYSE:AMCR) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk and earnings.

Is GAM or AMCR a better dividend stock?

General American Investors pays an annual dividend of $4.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.8%. Amcor pays an annual dividend of $0.51 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. Amcor pays out 96.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Do institutionals & insiders believe in GAM or AMCR?

36.8% of General American Investors shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.1% of Amcor shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.3% of General American Investors shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Amcor shares are owned by 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.

Do analysts recommend GAM or AMCR?

Amcor has a consensus target price of $11.20, suggesting a potential upside of 19.15%. Given Amcor's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Amcor is more favorable than General American Investors.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
General American Investors	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
Amcor	0 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.63

Which has more risk and volatility, GAM or AMCR?

General American Investors has a beta of 1.06, suggesting that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Amcor has a beta of 0.82, suggesting that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is GAM or AMCR more profitable?

Amcor has a net margin of 5.68% compared to General American Investors' net margin of 0.00%. Amcor's return on equity of 25.60% beat General American Investors' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
General American Investors	N/A	N/A	N/A
Amcor	5.68%	25.60%	6.12%

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer GAM or AMCR?

General American Investors received 28 more outperform votes than Amcor when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.01% of users gave General American Investors an outperform vote while only 51.94% of users gave Amcor an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
General American Investors	Outperform Votes 95 59.01%	Underperform Votes 66 40.99%
Amcor	Outperform Votes 67 51.94%	Underperform Votes 62 48.06%

Which has stronger valuation & earnings, GAM or AMCR?

Amcor has higher revenue and earnings than General American Investors.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
General American Investors	$301.04M	4.09	N/A	N/A	N/A
Amcor	$13.55B	1.00	$730M	$0.53	17.74

Does the media prefer GAM or AMCR?

In the previous week, General American Investors had 3 more articles in the media than Amcor. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for General American Investors and 1 mentions for Amcor. General American Investors' average media sentiment score of 1.71 beat Amcor's score of 0.50 indicating that General American Investors is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
General American Investors	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive
Amcor	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Summary

General American Investors and Amcor tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.