SEE vs. PKG, GPK, SON, UFPT, CE, HUBB, BALL, TS, AVY, and ZBRA
Should you be buying Sealed Air stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sealed Air include Packaging Co. of America (PKG), Graphic Packaging (GPK), Sonoco Products (SON), UFP Technologies (UFPT), Celanese (CE), Hubbell (HUBB), Ball (BALL), Tenaris (TS), Avery Dennison (AVY), and Zebra Technologies (ZBRA).
Sealed Air (NYSE:SEE) and Packaging Co. of America (NYSE:PKG) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Packaging Co. of America has higher revenue and earnings than Sealed Air. Sealed Air is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Packaging Co. of America, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
94.4% of Sealed Air shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.8% of Packaging Co. of America shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Sealed Air shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Packaging Co. of America shares are owned 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.
Packaging Co. of America received 42 more outperform votes than Sealed Air when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.96% of users gave Packaging Co. of America an outperform vote while only 55.32% of users gave Sealed Air an outperform vote.
Packaging Co. of America has a net margin of 9.25% compared to Sealed Air's net margin of 6.61%. Sealed Air's return on equity of 94.93% beat Packaging Co. of America's return on equity.
In the previous week, Packaging Co. of America had 4 more articles in the media than Sealed Air. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Packaging Co. of America and 4 mentions for Sealed Air. Sealed Air's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Packaging Co. of America's score of 0.71 indicating that Sealed Air is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Sealed Air pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Packaging Co. of America pays an annual dividend of $5.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Sealed Air pays out 32.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Packaging Co. of America pays out 62.5% 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.
Sealed Air has a beta of 1.31, indicating that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Packaging Co. of America has a beta of 0.8, indicating that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Sealed Air currently has a consensus target price of $43.50, suggesting a potential upside of 15.35%. Packaging Co. of America has a consensus target price of $176.57, suggesting a potential downside of 2.70%. Given Sealed Air's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Sealed Air is more favorable than Packaging Co. of America.
Summary
Packaging Co. of America beats Sealed Air on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding SEE and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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