AMCR vs. BRC, HI, ARRY, ODC, DAKT, AGS, VTSI, DOGZ, MWG, and SHPW
Should you be buying Amcor stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Amcor include Brady (BRC), Hillenbrand (HI), Array Technologies (ARRY), Oil-Dri Co. of America (ODC), Daktronics (DAKT), PlayAGS (AGS), VirTra (VTSI), Dogness (International) (DOGZ), Multi Ways (MWG), and Shapeways (SHPW). These companies are all part of the "miscellaneous manufacturing industries" industry.
Brady (NYSE:BRC) and Amcor (NYSE:AMCR) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends and risk.
Brady has a beta of 0.76, suggesting that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Amcor has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Amcor has higher revenue and earnings than Brady. Brady is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Amcor, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Brady has a net margin of 14.22% compared to Brady's net margin of 4.75%. Brady's return on equity of 24.66% beat Amcor's return on equity.
76.3% of Brady shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.1% of Amcor shares are held by institutional investors. 15.6% of Brady shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Amcor shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Brady pays an annual dividend of $0.94 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Amcor pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Brady pays out 24.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Amcor pays out 111.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Brady has raised its dividend for 38 consecutive years and Amcor has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years.
Brady received 305 more outperform votes than Amcor when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.55% of users gave Brady an outperform vote while only 52.94% of users gave Amcor an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Brady had 52 more articles in the media than Amcor. MarketBeat recorded 56 mentions for Brady and 4 mentions for Amcor. Brady's average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat Amcor's score of 0.24 indicating that Amcor is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Brady currently has a consensus target price of $65.00, indicating a potential downside of 4.86%. Amcor has a consensus target price of $10.00, indicating a potential upside of 1.73%. Given Brady's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Amcor is more favorable than Brady.
Summary
Brady beats Amcor on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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