AptarGroup (ATR) Competitors

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

Do analysts rate CCK or ATR?

Crown presently has a consensus price target of $106.00, indicating a potential upside of 21.70%. AptarGroup has a consensus price target of $181.60, indicating a potential upside of 23.53%. Given AptarGroup's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe AptarGroup is more favorable than Crown.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Crown	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	10 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.83
AptarGroup	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	5 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

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

90.9% of Crown shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.5% of AptarGroup shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Crown shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of AptarGroup shares are held by company 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.

Is CCK or ATR more profitable?

AptarGroup has a net margin of 10.45% compared to Crown's net margin of 3.59%. Crown's return on equity of 25.12% beat AptarGroup's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Crown	3.59%	25.12%	5.23%
AptarGroup	10.45%	15.56%	8.50%

Which has more risk and volatility, CCK or ATR?

Crown has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AptarGroup has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is CCK or ATR a better dividend stock?

Crown pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. AptarGroup pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Crown pays out 29.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. AptarGroup pays out 32.5% 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. AptarGroup has increased its dividend for 31 consecutive years. AptarGroup is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Which has better earnings & valuation, CCK or ATR?

Crown has higher revenue and earnings than AptarGroup. Crown is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AptarGroup, 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
Crown	$11.80B	0.87	$424M	$3.56	24.47
AptarGroup	$3.58B	2.73	$374.54M	$5.54	26.54

Does the media favor CCK or ATR?

In the previous week, Crown had 11 more articles in the media than AptarGroup. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Crown and 15 mentions for AptarGroup. AptarGroup's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat Crown's score of 1.10 indicating that AptarGroup is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Crown	18 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	5 Neutral mention(s)	2 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
AptarGroup	12 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer CCK or ATR?

Crown received 279 more outperform votes than AptarGroup when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.07% of users gave Crown an outperform vote while only 57.52% of users gave AptarGroup an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Crown	Outperform Votes 608 64.07%	Underperform Votes 341 35.93%
AptarGroup	Outperform Votes 329 57.52%	Underperform Votes 243 42.48%

Summary

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