AMCR vs. CNHI, GGG, PNR, NDSN, SWK, PKG, LECO, ZBRA, AOS, and IEX
Should you be buying Amcor stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Amcor include CNH Industrial (CNHI), Graco (GGG), Pentair (PNR), Nordson (NDSN), Stanley Black & Decker (SWK), Packaging Co. of America (PKG), Lincoln Electric (LECO), Zebra Technologies (ZBRA), A. O. Smith (AOS), and IDEX (IEX). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Amcor (NYSE:AMCR) and CNH Industrial (NYSE:CNHI) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and valuation.
Amcor currently has a consensus target price of $10.00, suggesting a potential downside of 2.15%. CNH Industrial has a consensus target price of $15.20, suggesting a potential upside of 30.48%. Given CNH Industrial's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe CNH Industrial is more favorable than Amcor.
45.1% of Amcor shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.9% of CNH Industrial shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Amcor shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Amcor has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CNH Industrial has a beta of 1.66, suggesting that its share price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500.
CNH Industrial received 226 more outperform votes than Amcor when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 52.94% of users gave Amcor an outperform vote while only 48.98% of users gave CNH Industrial an outperform vote.
CNH Industrial has a net margin of 9.48% compared to Amcor's net margin of 4.75%. CNH Industrial's return on equity of 28.40% beat Amcor's return on equity.
In the previous week, CNH Industrial had 23 more articles in the media than Amcor. MarketBeat recorded 34 mentions for CNH Industrial and 11 mentions for Amcor. Amcor's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat CNH Industrial's score of 0.33 indicating that Amcor is being referred to more favorably in the media.
CNH Industrial has higher revenue and earnings than Amcor. CNH Industrial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Amcor, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
CNH Industrial beats Amcor on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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