GPK vs. SON, PKG, AGCO, DCI, ATR, RBC, AIT, MSA, MIDD, and CCK
Should you be buying Graphic Packaging stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Graphic Packaging include Sonoco Products (SON), Packaging Co. of America (PKG), AGCO (AGCO), Donaldson (DCI), AptarGroup (ATR), RBC Bearings (RBC), Applied Industrial Technologies (AIT), MSA Safety (MSA), Middleby (MIDD), and Crown (CCK). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Sonoco Products (NYSE:SON) and Graphic Packaging (NYSE:GPK) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and profitability.
77.7% of Sonoco Products shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.7% of Graphic Packaging shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Sonoco Products shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Graphic Packaging shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Sonoco Products currently has a consensus target price of $63.33, suggesting a potential upside of 5.07%. Graphic Packaging has a consensus target price of $28.13, suggesting a potential downside of 0.02%. Given Graphic Packaging's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Sonoco Products is more favorable than Graphic Packaging.
Graphic Packaging has a net margin of 7.36% compared to Graphic Packaging's net margin of 5.86%. Sonoco Products' return on equity of 32.55% beat Graphic Packaging's return on equity.
In the previous week, Graphic Packaging had 4 more articles in the media than Sonoco Products. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Graphic Packaging and 3 mentions for Sonoco Products. Sonoco Products' average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat Graphic Packaging's score of 0.87 indicating that Graphic Packaging is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Graphic Packaging has higher revenue and earnings than Sonoco Products. Graphic Packaging is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sonoco Products, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sonoco Products pays an annual dividend of $2.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Graphic Packaging pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Sonoco Products pays out 52.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Graphic Packaging pays out 18.1% 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. Sonoco Products has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Sonoco Products is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Sonoco Products received 160 more outperform votes than Graphic Packaging when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.24% of users gave Sonoco Products an outperform vote while only 64.08% of users gave Graphic Packaging an outperform vote.
Sonoco Products has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Graphic Packaging has a beta of 0.86, meaning that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Graphic Packaging beats Sonoco Products on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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