PKG vs. GPK, SON, ZBRA, NDSN, IEX, CNHI, SWK, GGG, AVY, and PNR
Should you be buying Packaging Co. of America stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Packaging Co. of America include Graphic Packaging (GPK), Sonoco Products (SON), Zebra Technologies (ZBRA), Nordson (NDSN), IDEX (IEX), CNH Industrial (CNHI), Stanley Black & Decker (SWK), Graco (GGG), Avery Dennison (AVY), and Pentair (PNR). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Graphic Packaging (NYSE:GPK) and Packaging Co. of America (NYSE:PKG) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, risk, media sentiment and valuation.
Graphic Packaging presently has a consensus price target of $28.13, indicating a potential upside of 2.01%. Packaging Co. of America has a consensus price target of $173.57, indicating a potential downside of 2.84%. Given Packaging Co. of America's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Graphic Packaging is more favorable than Packaging Co. of America.
99.7% of Graphic Packaging shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.8% of Packaging Co. of America shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Graphic Packaging shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Packaging Co. of America shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Packaging Co. of America received 5 more outperform votes than Graphic Packaging when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.08% of users gave Graphic Packaging an outperform vote while only 58.86% of users gave Packaging Co. of America an outperform vote.
Graphic Packaging has a beta of 0.86, suggesting that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Packaging Co. of America has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Graphic Packaging pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Packaging Co. of America pays an annual dividend of $5.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Graphic Packaging pays out 18.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Packaging Co. of America pays out 62.5% 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.
Packaging Co. of America has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Graphic Packaging. Graphic Packaging is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Packaging Co. of America, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Packaging Co. of America has a net margin of 9.25% compared to Packaging Co. of America's net margin of 7.36%. Packaging Co. of America's return on equity of 32.55% beat Graphic Packaging's return on equity.
In the previous week, Graphic Packaging and Graphic Packaging both had 10 articles in the media. Graphic Packaging's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Packaging Co. of America's score of 0.58 indicating that Packaging Co. of America is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Packaging Co. of America beats Graphic Packaging on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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