SW vs. BALL, AMBP, GEF-B, PKG, GPK, SON, SHW, SCCO, RIO, and APD
Should you be buying Smurfit Westrock stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Smurfit Westrock include Ball (BALL), Ardagh Metal Packaging (AMBP), Greif (GEF-B), Packaging Co. of America (PKG), Graphic Packaging (GPK), Sonoco Products (SON), Sherwin-Williams (SHW), Southern Copper (SCCO), Rio Tinto Group (RIO), and Air Products and Chemicals (APD).
Smurfit Westrock vs.
Smurfit Westrock (NYSE:SW) and Ball (NYSE:BALL) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, earnings, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership and risk.
Smurfit Westrock presently has a consensus price target of $60.70, suggesting a potential upside of 10.40%. Ball has a consensus price target of $68.17, suggesting a potential upside of 23.86%. Given Ball's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Ball is more favorable than Smurfit Westrock.
Ball has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Smurfit Westrock. Ball is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Smurfit Westrock, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Smurfit Westrock has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ball has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Ball has a net margin of 34.05% compared to Smurfit Westrock's net margin of -0.12%. Ball's return on equity of 17.46% beat Smurfit Westrock's return on equity.
In the previous week, Ball had 35 more articles in the media than Smurfit Westrock. MarketBeat recorded 47 mentions for Ball and 12 mentions for Smurfit Westrock. Smurfit Westrock's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Ball's score of 0.37 indicating that Smurfit Westrock is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ball received 10 more outperform votes than Smurfit Westrock when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 76.47% of users gave Smurfit Westrock an outperform vote while only 22.77% of users gave Ball an outperform vote.
83.4% of Smurfit Westrock shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.5% of Ball shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Smurfit Westrock shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Ball shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Smurfit Westrock pays an annual dividend of $1.21 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Ball pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Smurfit Westrock pays out 672.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ball pays out 6.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
Ball beats Smurfit Westrock on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:SW) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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