WRK vs. PKG, GPK, SON, NEM, NUE, DOW, DD, AEM, LYB, and PPG
Should you be buying WestRock stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of WestRock include Packaging Co. of America (PKG), Graphic Packaging (GPK), Sonoco Products (SON), Newmont (NEM), Nucor (NUE), DOW (DOW), DuPont de Nemours (DD), Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM), LyondellBasell Industries (LYB), and PPG Industries (PPG).
Packaging Co. of America (NYSE:PKG) and WestRock (NYSE:WRK) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, valuation, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings and institutional ownership.
Packaging Co. of America currently has a consensus price target of $176.57, suggesting a potential downside of 2.70%. WestRock has a consensus price target of $48.80, suggesting a potential downside of 10.01%. Given WestRock's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Packaging Co. of America is more favorable than WestRock.
Packaging Co. of America has higher earnings, but lower revenue than WestRock. Packaging Co. of America is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than WestRock, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Packaging Co. of America and Packaging Co. of America both had 6 articles in the media. Packaging Co. of America's average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat WestRock's score of 0.71 indicating that WestRock is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Packaging Co. of America has a net margin of 9.25% compared to Packaging Co. of America's net margin of 1.57%. WestRock's return on equity of 18.80% beat Packaging Co. of America's return on equity.
Packaging Co. of America received 14 more outperform votes than WestRock when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.51% of users gave WestRock an outperform vote while only 58.96% of users gave Packaging Co. of America an outperform vote.
Packaging Co. of America has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, WestRock has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
89.8% of Packaging Co. of America shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.4% of WestRock shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of Packaging Co. of America shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of WestRock shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Packaging Co. of America pays an annual dividend of $5.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. WestRock pays an annual dividend of $1.21 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Packaging Co. of America pays out 62.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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. Packaging Co. of America has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years and WestRock has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Packaging Co. of America is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Packaging Co. of America beats WestRock on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding WRK 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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