REYNOLDS CONSUMER PRODUCTS INC. vs Smurfit Westrock plc, two Paper & Packaging stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Steady branded packaging meets a boxmaker mid-merger here. Reynolds Consumer Products holds 14.53% on equity at an 8.7% net margin, priced at 17.2 times earnings. Smurfit Westrock, still working through a large merger, shows 2.1% and a 1.22% margin at 65.26 times, figures that flatter neither until integration clears. The commodity boxmaker is more than four times Reynolds' size, $24.7B against $5.7B, and carries almost no debt, 0.05 against 0.68. It pays a touch more, 3.66% against 3.43%. On book, Reynolds trades at 2.51 times against Smurfit Westrock's 1.37 times. Reynolds' profits are current and clean; Smurfit Westrock's are held down by a merger it is still absorbing.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | REYN | SW |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $26.25 | $44.22 |
| Market cap | $5.6B | $23.3B |
| Sector | Paper & Packaging | Paper & Packaging |
| Stage | Mature | Growth |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +7.5% | +13.9% |
| P/E | 16.8 | 61.4 |
| P/B | 2.45 | 1.29 |
| P/S | 1.47 | 0.74 |
| EV/EBITDA | 51.6 | 5.8 |
| Revenue growth | +2.9% | +43.3% |
| Gross margin | 23.6% | 16.4% |
| Operating margin | — | 3.3% |
| Net margin | 8.7% | 1.2% |
| Return on equity | 14.5% | 2.1% |
| Return on assets | 6.7% | 0.8% |
| Return on invested capital | — | 5.6% |
| FCF yield | 5.9% | 4.4% |
| Dividend yield | 3.5% | 3.9% |
| Debt / equity | 0.68 | 0.05 |
| Current ratio | 1.79 | 1.44 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 2.37 | 1.39 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 5 / 9 | 6 / 9 |
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