CCK vs. SLGN, BALL, ATR, RRX, ALLE, DCI, TTEK, AGCO, GPK, and AOS
Should you be buying Crown stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Crown include Silgan (SLGN), Ball (BALL), AptarGroup (ATR), Regal Rexnord (RRX), Allegion (ALLE), Donaldson (DCI), Tetra Tech (TTEK), AGCO (AGCO), Graphic Packaging (GPK), and A. O. Smith (AOS). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Crown (NYSE:CCK) and Silgan (NYSE:SLGN) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation and community ranking.
Silgan has a net margin of 5.25% compared to Crown's net margin of 3.51%. Crown's return on equity of 23.95% beat Silgan's return on equity.
In the previous week, Crown had 4 more articles in the media than Silgan. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Crown and 10 mentions for Silgan. Silgan's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Crown's score of 0.76 indicating that Silgan is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Crown has a beta of 0.88, meaning that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Silgan has a beta of 0.69, meaning that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Crown received 241 more outperform votes than Silgan when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.34% of users gave Crown an outperform vote while only 51.99% of users gave Silgan an outperform vote.
Crown currently has a consensus target price of $99.29, indicating a potential upside of 16.94%. Silgan has a consensus target price of $53.00, indicating a potential upside of 12.24%. Given Crown's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Crown is more favorable than Silgan.
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 insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Silgan shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
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 28.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Silgan pays out 26.7% 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 is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
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.
Summary
Crown beats Silgan on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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