AptarGroup (ATR) Competitors

AptarGroup (NYSE:ATR) and Crown (NYSE:CCK) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, earnings and community ranking.

Is ATR or CCK a better dividend stock?

AptarGroup pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Crown pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. AptarGroup pays out 36.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Crown pays out 123.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. AptarGroup has increased its dividend for 31 consecutive years.

Is ATR or CCK more profitable?

AptarGroup has a net margin of 9.40% compared to Crown's net margin of 0.83%. Crown's return on equity of 24.57% beat AptarGroup's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
AptarGroup	9.40%	14.92%	8.01%
Crown	0.83%	24.57%	4.87%

Do insiders & institutionals hold more shares of ATR or CCK?

88.5% of AptarGroup shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.9% of Crown shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of AptarGroup shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Crown shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has stronger valuation and earnings, ATR or CCK?

Crown has higher revenue and earnings than AptarGroup. AptarGroup is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Crown, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
AptarGroup	$3.49B	3.22	$284.49M	$4.98	33.86
Crown	$12.01B	0.90	$450M	$0.81	111.46

Which has more volatility and risk, ATR or CCK?

AptarGroup has a beta of 0.57, indicating that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Crown has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do analysts rate ATR or CCK?

AptarGroup presently has a consensus target price of $195.00, suggesting a potential upside of 15.65%. Crown has a consensus target price of $106.62, suggesting a potential upside of 18.09%. Given Crown's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Crown is more favorable than AptarGroup.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
AptarGroup	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.20
Crown	0 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	10 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.77

Does the media refer more to ATR or CCK?

In the previous week, Crown had 2 more articles in the media than AptarGroup. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Crown and 14 mentions for AptarGroup. AptarGroup's average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Crown's score of 1.17 indicating that AptarGroup is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
AptarGroup	11 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Crown	11 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in ATR or CCK?

Crown received 274 more outperform votes than AptarGroup when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.16% of users gave Crown an outperform vote while only 57.35% of users gave AptarGroup an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
AptarGroup	Outperform Votes 324 57.35%	Underperform Votes 241 42.65%
Crown	Outperform Votes 598 64.16%	Underperform Votes 334 35.84%

Summary

Crown beats AptarGroup on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.