GPK vs. SON, PKG, AGCO, DCI, MIDD, MSA, RBC, AIT, BERY, and SITE
Should you be buying Graphic Packaging stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Graphic Packaging include Sonoco Products (SON), Packaging Co. of America (PKG), AGCO (AGCO), Donaldson (DCI), Middleby (MIDD), MSA Safety (MSA), RBC Bearings (RBC), Applied Industrial Technologies (AIT), Berry Global Group (BERY), and SiteOne Landscape Supply (SITE). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Sonoco Products (NYSE:SON) and Graphic Packaging (NYSE:GPK) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, dividends and profitability.
Sonoco Products pays an annual dividend of $2.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Graphic Packaging pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Sonoco Products pays out 52.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Graphic Packaging pays out 18.1% 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. Sonoco Products has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Sonoco Products is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Sonoco Products presently has a consensus target price of $63.33, suggesting a potential upside of 7.40%. Graphic Packaging has a consensus target price of $28.13, suggesting a potential upside of 1.21%. Given Graphic Packaging's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Sonoco Products is more favorable than Graphic Packaging.
Graphic Packaging has a net margin of 7.36% compared to Graphic Packaging's net margin of 5.86%. Sonoco Products' return on equity of 32.55% beat Graphic Packaging's return on equity.
Sonoco Products received 160 more outperform votes than Graphic Packaging when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.24% of users gave Sonoco Products an outperform vote while only 64.08% of users gave Graphic Packaging an outperform vote.
77.7% of Sonoco Products shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.7% of Graphic Packaging shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Sonoco Products shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Graphic Packaging shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Graphic Packaging has higher revenue and earnings than Sonoco Products. Graphic Packaging is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sonoco Products, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Graphic Packaging had 3 more articles in the media than Sonoco Products. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Graphic Packaging and 5 mentions for Sonoco Products. Sonoco Products' average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Graphic Packaging's score of 0.92 indicating that Graphic Packaging is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Sonoco Products has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Graphic Packaging has a beta of 0.86, meaning that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Graphic Packaging beats Sonoco Products on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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