GEF.B vs. SON, GPK, UNF, JBT, GEF, HI, MWA, BRC, REZI, and CSTM
Should you be buying Greif stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Greif include Sonoco Products (SON), Graphic Packaging (GPK), UniFirst (UNF), John Bean Technologies (JBT), Greif (GEF), Hillenbrand (HI), Mueller Water Products (MWA), Brady (BRC), Resideo Technologies (REZI), and Constellium (CSTM). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Greif (NYSE:GEF.B) and Sonoco Products (NYSE:SON) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
Greif has a beta of 0.67, suggesting that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sonoco Products has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
5.1% of Greif shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.7% of Sonoco Products shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.2% of Greif shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Sonoco Products shares are owned 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.
Sonoco Products has a consensus price target of $63.33, suggesting a potential upside of 5.61%. Given Sonoco Products' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Sonoco Products is more favorable than Greif.
Greif pays an annual dividend of $3.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Sonoco Products pays an annual dividend of $2.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Greif pays out 49.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sonoco Products pays out 52.5% 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. Greif is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Sonoco Products received 550 more outperform votes than Greif when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.57% of users gave Greif an outperform vote while only 64.24% of users gave Sonoco Products an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Sonoco Products had 4 more articles in the media than Greif. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Sonoco Products and 0 mentions for Greif. Sonoco Products' average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat Greif's score of 0.00 indicating that Sonoco Products is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Greif has a net margin of 6.53% compared to Sonoco Products' net margin of 5.86%. Sonoco Products' return on equity of 20.79% beat Greif's return on equity.
Sonoco Products has higher revenue and earnings than Greif. Greif is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sonoco Products, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Sonoco Products beats Greif on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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