AMBP vs. SLGN, ALG, AZZ, PLUG, ATMU, OI, ESE, KMT, SXI, and B
Should you be buying Ardagh Metal Packaging stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ardagh Metal Packaging include Silgan (SLGN), Alamo Group (ALG), AZZ (AZZ), Plug Power (PLUG), Atmus Filtration Technologies (ATMU), O-I Glass (OI), ESCO Technologies (ESE), Kennametal (KMT), Standex International (SXI), and Barnes Group (B). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Ardagh Metal Packaging (NYSE:AMBP) and Silgan (NYSE:SLGN) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, valuation, earnings and dividends.
Ardagh Metal Packaging has a beta of 0.65, indicating that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Silgan has a beta of 0.69, indicating that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Ardagh Metal Packaging pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.8%. Silgan pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Ardagh Metal Packaging pays out -285.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Silgan pays out 26.7% 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. Ardagh Metal Packaging is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Ardagh Metal Packaging currently has a consensus price target of $4.31, indicating a potential upside of 5.80%. Silgan has a consensus price target of $53.00, indicating a potential upside of 11.89%. Given Silgan's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Silgan is more favorable than Ardagh Metal Packaging.
Silgan has a net margin of 5.25% compared to Ardagh Metal Packaging's net margin of -1.26%. Ardagh Metal Packaging's return on equity of 55.91% beat Silgan's return on equity.
16.9% of Ardagh Metal Packaging shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.3% of Silgan shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Ardagh Metal Packaging shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Silgan shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Silgan received 325 more outperform votes than Ardagh Metal Packaging when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 51.99% of users gave Silgan an outperform vote while only 24.19% of users gave Ardagh Metal Packaging an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Silgan had 14 more articles in the media than Ardagh Metal Packaging. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Silgan and 1 mentions for Ardagh Metal Packaging. Ardagh Metal Packaging's average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat Silgan's score of 0.21 indicating that Ardagh Metal Packaging is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Silgan has higher revenue and earnings than Ardagh Metal Packaging. Ardagh Metal Packaging is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Silgan, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Silgan beats Ardagh Metal Packaging on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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