Smurfit Kappa Group (OTCMKTS:SMFKY) versus Greif Bros. (NYSE:GEF.B) Financial Survey

Volatility & Risk

Greif Bros. has a beta of 0.58, indicating that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Smurfit Kappa Group has a beta of 1.2, indicating that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Greif Bros. and Smurfit Kappa Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Greif Bros.	7.53%	13.66%	6.52%
Smurfit Kappa Group	N/A	N/A	N/A

Dividends

Greif Bros. pays an annual dividend of $3.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Smurfit Kappa Group pays an annual dividend of $1.81 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Greif Bros. pays out 104.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

5.1% of Greif Bros. shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.0% of Smurfit Kappa Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.2% of Greif Bros. shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Greif Bros. and Smurfit Kappa Group”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Greif Bros.	$5.43 billion	0.95	$268.80 million	$3.56	31.26
Smurfit Kappa Group	$12.20 billion	0.98	$820.38 million	N/A	N/A

Smurfit Kappa Group has higher revenue and earnings than Greif Bros..

Summary

Smurfit Kappa Group beats Greif Bros. on 6 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Greif Bros.

Greif, Inc. produces and sells industrial packaging products and services worldwide. It operates through four segments: Rigid Industrial Packaging & Services; Paper Packaging & Services; Flexible Products & Services; and Land Management. The Rigid Industrial Packaging & Services segment offers rigid industrial packaging products, including steel, fiber, and plastic drums; rigid intermediate bulk containers; closure systems for industrial packaging products; transit protection products; water bottles, and remanufactured and reconditioned industrial containers; and services, such as container life cycle management, filling, logistics, warehousing, and other packaging services. This segment sells its products to customers in the chemicals, paints and pigments, food and beverage, petroleum, industrial coatings, agricultural, pharmaceutical and minerals, and other industries. The Paper Packaging & Services segment provides containerboards, corrugated sheets, corrugated containers, and other corrugated and specialty products to customers in the packaging, automotive, food, and building products markets. This segment's corrugated container products are used to ship various products, such as home appliances, small machinery, grocery products, automotive components, books, and furniture, as well as various other applications. The Flexible Products & Services segment offers flexible intermediate bulk containers comprising polypropylene-based woven fabric, as well as related services to the agricultural, food, and other industries. The Land Management segment engages in harvesting and regeneration of timber properties; and sale of timberland and special use land. As of October 31, 2020, this segment owned approximately 244,000 acres of timber property in the southeastern United States. The company was formerly known as Greif Bros. Corporation and changed its name to Greif, Inc. in 2001. Greif, Inc. was founded in 1877 and is based in Delaware, Ohio.

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.