BALL vs. CCK, HUBB, TS, AXON, DOV, AVY, IEX, ZBRA, PKG, and NDSN
Should you be buying Ball stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ball include Crown (CCK), Hubbell (HUBB), Tenaris (TS), Axon Enterprise (AXON), Dover (DOV), Avery Dennison (AVY), IDEX (IEX), Zebra Technologies (ZBRA), Packaging Co. of America (PKG), and Nordson (NDSN). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Crown (NYSE:CCK) and Ball (NYSE:BALL) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, earnings, valuation, risk, media sentiment, dividends and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Ball had 20 more articles in the media than Crown. MarketBeat recorded 34 mentions for Ball and 14 mentions for Crown. Ball's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat Crown's score of 0.41 indicating that Crown is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Crown currently has a consensus price target of $99.29, suggesting a potential upside of 18.48%. Ball has a consensus price target of $69.23, suggesting a potential downside of 0.54%. Given Ball's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Crown is more favorable than Ball.
Crown pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Ball pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Crown pays out 28.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ball pays out 6.0% 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 increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Crown is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Ball has higher revenue and earnings than Crown. Ball is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Crown, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Crown received 569 more outperform votes than Ball when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.34% of users gave Crown an outperform vote while only 15.58% of users gave Ball an outperform vote.
Crown has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ball has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
90.9% of Crown shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.5% of Ball shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Crown shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Ball shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Ball has a net margin of 31.42% compared to Ball's net margin of 3.51%. Ball's return on equity of 23.95% beat Crown's return on equity.
Summary
Crown beats Ball on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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