SW vs. BALL, AMBP, JBDI, GEF-B, PKG, GPK, SON, SHW, RIO, and ECL
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), JBDI Holdings Limited Ordinary Shares (JBDI), Greif (GEF-B), Packaging Co. of America (PKG), Graphic Packaging (GPK), Sonoco Products (SON), Sherwin-Williams (SHW), Rio Tinto Group (RIO), and Ecolab (ECL).
Smurfit Westrock vs.
Ball (NYSE:BALL) and Smurfit Westrock (NYSE:SW) are both large-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment and earnings.
86.5% of Ball shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.4% of Smurfit Westrock shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Ball shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Smurfit Westrock shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
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 currently has a consensus target price of $63.20, suggesting a potential upside of 30.59%. Smurfit Westrock has a consensus target price of $60.00, suggesting a potential upside of 43.49%. Given Smurfit Westrock's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Smurfit Westrock is more favorable than Ball.
Ball has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Smurfit Westrock has a beta of 1, suggesting that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
Ball pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Smurfit Westrock pays an annual dividend of $1.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Ball pays out 6.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Smurfit Westrock pays out 312.7% 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 22 more articles in the media than Smurfit Westrock. MarketBeat recorded 42 mentions for Ball and 20 mentions for Smurfit Westrock. Smurfit Westrock's average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat Ball's score of 0.68 indicating that Smurfit Westrock is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ball received 12 more outperform votes than Smurfit Westrock when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.68% of users gave Smurfit Westrock an outperform vote while only 24.30% of users gave Ball an outperform vote.
Ball has a net margin of 33.98% compared to Smurfit Westrock's net margin of 0.63%. Ball's return on equity of 16.17% beat Smurfit Westrock's return on equity.
Summary
Ball beats Smurfit Westrock on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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