CCK vs. ATR, BERY, SLGN, GEF, OI, MYE, BALL, AMBP, IR, and FERG
Should you be buying Crown stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Crown include AptarGroup (ATR), Berry Global Group (BERY), Silgan (SLGN), Greif (GEF), O-I Glass (OI), Myers Industries (MYE), Ball (BALL), Ardagh Metal Packaging (AMBP), Ingersoll Rand (IR), and Ferguson (FERG). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Crown vs.
AptarGroup (NYSE:ATR) and Crown (NYSE:CCK) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.
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.
In the previous week, Crown had 18 more articles in the media than AptarGroup. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Crown and 6 mentions for AptarGroup. AptarGroup's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Crown's score of 0.52 indicating that AptarGroup is being referred to more favorably in the media.
AptarGroup pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Crown pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. 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.
AptarGroup presently has a consensus price target of $190.60, suggesting a potential upside of 22.12%. Crown has a consensus price target of $105.46, suggesting a potential upside of 23.22%. Given Crown's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Crown is more favorable than AptarGroup.
Crown received 279 more outperform votes than AptarGroup when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.09% of users gave Crown an outperform vote while only 57.39% of users gave AptarGroup an outperform vote.
AptarGroup has a beta of 0.59, indicating that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Crown has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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 is poised for long-term growth.
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.
Summary
Crown beats AptarGroup on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:CCK) was last updated on 1/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
