AVERY DENNISON CORPORATION vs Smurfit Westrock plc, two Paper & Packaging stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where AVY and SW diverge most: on revenue growth, AVY reads +2.9% and SW reads +43.3%; on return on equity, AVY reads 30.0% and SW reads 2.1%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's AVY price has a different growth bar priced in than SW (+3.2% implied for AVY vs +13.9% for SW); the higher figure is the steeper assumption to clear, not a better or worse stock. What AVY's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (whole-company basis). What SW's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | AVY | SW |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $160.66 | $44.22 |
| Market cap | $12.4B | $23.3B |
| Sector | Paper & Packaging | Paper & Packaging |
| Stage | Mature | Growth |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +3.2% | +13.9% |
| P/E | 18.1 | 61.4 |
| P/B | 5.38 | 1.29 |
| P/S | 1.37 | 0.74 |
| EV/EBITDA | 37.7 | 5.8 |
| Revenue growth | +2.9% | +43.3% |
| Gross margin | 28.9% | 16.4% |
| Operating margin | — | 3.3% |
| Net margin | 7.7% | 1.2% |
| Return on equity | 30.0% | 2.1% |
| Return on assets | 7.7% | 0.8% |
| Return on invested capital | — | 5.6% |
| FCF yield | 7.1% | 4.4% |
| Dividend yield | 2.3% | 3.9% |
| Debt / equity | 0.26 | 0.05 |
| Current ratio | 1.15 | 1.44 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 7.95 | 1.39 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 6 / 9 | 6 / 9 |
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