SLGN vs. CCK, AMBP, MSM, CWST, SEE, ZWS, SON, FELE, WIRE, and VMI
Should you be buying Silgan stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Silgan include Crown (CCK), Ardagh Metal Packaging (AMBP), MSC Industrial Direct (MSM), Casella Waste Systems (CWST), Sealed Air (SEE), Zurn Elkay Water Solutions (ZWS), Sonoco Products (SON), Franklin Electric (FELE), Encore Wire (WIRE), and Valmont Industries (VMI). 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 better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and community ranking.
90.9% of Crown shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.3% of Silgan shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Crown shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Silgan shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Crown has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Silgan has a beta of 0.69, indicating that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Crown had 5 more articles in the media than Silgan. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Crown and 23 mentions for Silgan. Silgan's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Crown's score of 0.29 indicating that Crown is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Crown presently has a consensus target price of $99.29, indicating a potential upside of 18.42%. Silgan has a consensus target price of $53.00, indicating a potential upside of 12.43%. Given Silgan's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Crown is more favorable than Silgan.
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.
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. Crown has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Silgan has increased its dividend for 21 consecutive years. Silgan is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Silgan has a net margin of 5.25% compared to Silgan's net margin of 3.51%. Silgan's return on equity of 23.95% beat Crown's return on equity.
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.
Summary
Crown beats Silgan on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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