BERY vs. ATR, AA, ESAB, MLI, GTLS, ATKR, FLS, RBC, TKR, and ADT
Should you be buying Berry Global Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Berry Global Group include AptarGroup (ATR), Alcoa (AA), ESAB (ESAB), Mueller Industries (MLI), Chart Industries (GTLS), Atkore (ATKR), Flowserve (FLS), RBC Bearings (RBC), Timken (TKR), and ADT (ADT). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
AptarGroup (NYSE:ATR) and Berry Global Group (NYSE:BERY) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations and profitability.
AptarGroup pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Berry Global Group pays an annual dividend of $1.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. AptarGroup pays out 35.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Berry Global Group pays out 23.7% 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. AptarGroup has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Berry Global Group has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Berry Global Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Berry Global Group received 213 more outperform votes than AptarGroup when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.00% of users gave Berry Global Group an outperform vote while only 56.96% of users gave AptarGroup an outperform vote.
88.5% of AptarGroup shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.4% of Berry Global Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of AptarGroup shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of Berry Global Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Berry Global Group has higher revenue and earnings than AptarGroup. Berry Global Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AptarGroup, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AptarGroup presently has a consensus price target of $160.67, indicating a potential upside of 9.39%. Berry Global Group has a consensus price target of $72.00, indicating a potential upside of 22.32%. Given AptarGroup's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Berry Global Group is more favorable than AptarGroup.
In the previous week, AptarGroup had 16 more articles in the media than Berry Global Group. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for AptarGroup and 4 mentions for Berry Global Group. Berry Global Group's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat AptarGroup's score of 0.76 indicating that AptarGroup is being referred to more favorably in the media.
AptarGroup has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Berry Global Group has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
AptarGroup has a net margin of 8.83% compared to AptarGroup's net margin of 4.51%. AptarGroup's return on equity of 26.79% beat Berry Global Group's return on equity.
Summary
Berry Global Group beats AptarGroup on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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