SLGN vs. CCK, AMBP, MSM, FELE, SEE, SON, WIRE, ZWS, VMI, and ADT
Should you be buying Silgan stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Silgan include Crown (CCK), Ardagh Metal Packaging (AMBP), MSC Industrial Direct (MSM), Franklin Electric (FELE), Sealed Air (SEE), Sonoco Products (SON), Encore Wire (WIRE), Zurn Elkay Water Solutions (ZWS), Valmont Industries (VMI), and ADT (ADT). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Crown (NYSE:CCK) and Silgan (NYSE:SLGN) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends and community ranking.
Crown received 239 more outperform votes than Silgan when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.29% of users gave Crown an outperform vote while only 51.91% of users gave Silgan an outperform vote.
Silgan has a net margin of 5.44% compared to Silgan's net margin of 3.75%. Silgan's return on equity of 25.75% beat Crown's return on equity.
90.9% of Crown shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.3% of Silgan shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Crown shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.1% of Silgan shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Crown presently has a consensus target price of $99.21, indicating a potential upside of 18.69%. Silgan has a consensus target price of $53.13, indicating a potential upside of 13.27%. Given Silgan's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Crown is more favorable than Silgan.
In the previous week, Crown had 22 more articles in the media than Silgan. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Crown and 3 mentions for Silgan. Crown's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Silgan's score of 0.40 indicating that Silgan is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Crown has higher revenue and earnings than Silgan. Silgan is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Crown, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Crown pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Silgan pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Crown pays out 26.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Silgan pays out 25.5% 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. Crown has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Silgan has raised its dividend for 21 consecutive years. Silgan is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Crown has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Silgan has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Crown beats Silgan on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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