Yahoo Finance Why This 1 Value Stock Could Be a Great Addition to Your Portfolio
It doesn't matter your age or experience: taking full advantage of the stock market and investing with confidence are common goals for all investors.
Achieving those goals is made easier with the Zacks Style Scores, a unique set of guidelines that rates stocks based on popular investing methodologies, namely value, growth, and momentum. The Style Scores can help you narrow down which stocks are better for your portfolio and which ones can beat the market over the long-term.
Why Investors Should Pay Attention to This Value Stock
Finding good stocks at good prices, and discovering which companies are trading under their true value, are what value investors like to focus on. So, the Value Style Score takes into account ratios like P/E, PEG, Price/Sales, and Price/Cash Flow to highlight the most attractive and discounted stocks.
AptarGroup (ATR)
Headquartered in Crystal Lake, IL, AptarGroup is a global supplier of a broad range of innovative dispensing, sealing, and active packaging solutions for the beauty, personal care, home care, prescription drug, consumer health care, injectables, food and beverage markets. Its main products include dispensing pumps, closures, aerosol valves, and elastomeric primary packaging components. The company has manufacturing facilities across the globe including North America, Europe, Asia, and South America. Its primary products are dispensing pumps, closures, aerosol valves, and elastomeric primary packaging components.
ATR sits at a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy), holds a Value Style Score of B, and has a VGM Score of A. Compared to the Containers - Paper and Packaging industry's P/E of 15.5X, shares of AptarGroup are trading at a forward P/E of 27.5X. ATR also has a PEG Ratio of 3.9, a Price/Cash Flow ratio of 17.1X, and a Price/Sales ratio of 2.8X.
Many value investors pay close attention to a company's earnings as well. For ATR, four analysts revised their earnings estimate upwards in the last 60 days, and the Zacks Consensus Estimate has increased $0.17 to $5.36 per share for 2024. Per share ATR boasts an average earnings surprise of 9.3%.
With strong valuation and earnings metrics, a good Zacks Rank, and top-tier Value and VGM Style Scores, investors should strongly think about adding ATR to their portfolios.
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