AMBP vs. SLGN, ALG, LZ, AZZ, ATMU, OI, EPAC, TNC, AIN, and SXI
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), LegalZoom.com (LZ), AZZ (AZZ), Atmus Filtration Technologies (ATMU), O-I Glass (OI), Enerpac Tool Group (EPAC), Tennant (TNC), Albany International (AIN), and Standex International (SXI). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Silgan (NYSE:SLGN) and Ardagh Metal Packaging (NYSE:AMBP) 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 profitability, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, earnings, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Silgan currently has a consensus target price of $53.00, suggesting a potential upside of 13.49%. Ardagh Metal Packaging has a consensus target price of $4.31, suggesting a potential upside of 6.59%. Given Ardagh Metal Packaging's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Silgan is more favorable than Ardagh Metal Packaging.
Silgan pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Ardagh Metal Packaging pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.0%. Silgan pays out 26.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ardagh Metal Packaging pays out -285.7% 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. Silgan has raised its dividend for 21 consecutive years. Ardagh Metal Packaging is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
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.
70.3% of Silgan shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.9% of Ardagh Metal Packaging shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of Silgan shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Ardagh Metal Packaging shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Silgan had 7 more articles in the media than Ardagh Metal Packaging. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Silgan and 2 mentions for Ardagh Metal Packaging. Ardagh Metal Packaging's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Silgan's score of 0.33 indicating that Silgan is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Silgan has a net margin of 5.25% compared to Silgan's net margin of -1.26%. Silgan's return on equity of 55.91% beat Ardagh Metal Packaging's return on equity.
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.
Silgan has a beta of 0.69, meaning that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ardagh Metal Packaging has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Silgan beats Ardagh Metal Packaging on 18 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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