Institutional and Insider Ownership
41.9% of Smurfit Kappa Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.4% of shares of all “Containers & Packaging” companies are held by institutional investors. 13.5% of shares of all “Containers & Packaging” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Dividends
Smurfit Kappa Group pays an annual dividend of $0.46 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Smurfit Kappa Group pays out 38.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Containers & Packaging” companies pay a dividend yield of 5.1% and pay out -109.2% of their earnings in the form of a dividend. Smurfit Kappa Group lags its peers as a dividend stock, given its lower dividend yield and higher payout ratio.
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares Smurfit Kappa Group and its peers revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Net Income | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Smurfit Kappa Group | N/A | N/A | 38.02 |
| Smurfit Kappa Group Competitors | $8.21 billion | $208.36 million | 14.91 |
Profitability
This table compares Smurfit Kappa Group and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Smurfit Kappa Group | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Smurfit Kappa Group Competitors | -28.76% | -31.82% | 2.15% |
Summary
Smurfit Kappa Group peers beat Smurfit Kappa Group on 6 of the 9 factors compared.
About Smurfit Kappa Group
Smurfit Kappa Group Plc, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures, distributes, and sells containerboard, corrugated containers, and other paper-based packaging products in Ireland, Germany, France, Mexico, rest of Europe, and other Americas. The company offers e-commerce, retail, consumer, industrial, bottle, protective, heavy-duty, hexacomb, and various punnet packaging products; composite cardboard tubes, bags, and sacks; and bag-in-box, a packaging system that comprises films, accessories, bags, taps, and boxes. It also provides point of sale displays; cardboards of social distancing; corrugated sheet boards, solid board sheets, folding carton sheet boards, sack Kraft papers, MG brown Kraft papers, preprint products, agro-papers, technical papers, BanaBag, and Catcher Board MB12; and various types of containerboards, such as kraftliners, testliners, and containerboard flutings. In addition, the company offers recycling solutions to cardboard and paper products; and supplies packaging machinery. It primarily serves consumer goods, industrial goods, and food and drink sectors. Smurfit Kappa Group Plc was founded in 1934 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.
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