SW vs. BALL, AMBP, GEF-B, PKG, GPK, SON, RIO, SCCO, ECL, and VNTR
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), Rio Tinto Group (RIO), Southern Copper (SCCO), Ecolab (ECL), and Venator Materials (VNTR).
Ball (NYSE:BALL) and Smurfit Westrock (NYSE:SW) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, earnings, dividends and media sentiment.
Ball pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Smurfit Westrock pays an annual dividend of $1.21 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Ball pays out 6.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Smurfit Westrock pays out 101.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, Ball had 31 more articles in the media than Smurfit Westrock. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for Ball and 0 mentions for Smurfit Westrock. Ball's average media sentiment score of 0.35 beat Smurfit Westrock's score of 0.00 indicating that Ball is being referred to more favorably in the media.
86.5% of Ball shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.4% of Smurfit Westrock shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Ball shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Smurfit Westrock shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Ball currently has a consensus target price of $69.85, indicating a potential upside of 8.63%. Smurfit Westrock has a consensus target price of $57.80, indicating a potential upside of 29.25%. Given Smurfit Westrock's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Smurfit Westrock is more favorable than Ball.
Ball has a net margin of 32.79% compared to Smurfit Westrock's net margin of 1.36%. Ball's return on equity of 19.45% beat Smurfit Westrock's return on equity.
Ball has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Smurfit Westrock has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ball has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.
Ball received 14 more outperform votes than Smurfit Westrock when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.14% of users gave Smurfit Westrock an outperform vote while only 20.45% of users gave Ball an outperform vote.
Summary
Ball beats Smurfit Westrock on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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