Nine Dragons Paper (OTCMKTS:NDGPY) and Sealed Air (NYSE:SEE) Critical Comparison

Nine Dragons Paper (OTCMKTS:NDGPY) and Sealed Air (NYSE:SEE) are both industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations and valuation.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

94.4% of Sealed Air shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Sealed Air shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Nine Dragons Paper and Sealed Air, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Nine Dragons Paper	0	0	0	1	4.00
Sealed Air	0	2	8	1	2.91

Sealed Air has a consensus price target of $40.09, suggesting a potential upside of 16.76%. Given Sealed Air’s higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Sealed Air is more favorable than Nine Dragons Paper.

Profitability

This table compares Nine Dragons Paper and Sealed Air’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Nine Dragons Paper	N/A	N/A	N/A
Sealed Air	5.46%	60.61%	6.66%

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Nine Dragons Paper and Sealed Air”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Nine Dragons Paper	$8.25 billion	N/A	$107.12 million	N/A	N/A
Sealed Air	$5.39 billion	0.94	$264.70 million	$1.98	17.34

Sealed Air has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Nine Dragons Paper.

Risk & Volatility

Nine Dragons Paper has a beta of 0.29, meaning that its share price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sealed Air has a beta of 1.36, meaning that its share price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Sealed Air beats Nine Dragons Paper on 9 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Nine Dragons Paper

Nine Dragons Paper (Holdings) Limited, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the production and sale of packaging paper, recycled printing and writing paper, and specialty paper and pulp products in the People's Republic of China. The company offers linerboard products, including kraft, test, white top, and coated linerboards; corrugating medium containerboard products; corrugated cardboard products; carton box products; corrugated sheet products; and coated duplex boards. It also provides recycled printing and writing paper, such as uncoated wood-free paper and office paper; capacitor tissue paper; low and high voltage, ultra-high-voltage transformer coil winding, and heat-resistant insulating paper; and recycled and kraft pulp products. It also operates in Vietnam, Malaysia, and the United States. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Dongguan, the People's Republic of China. Nine Dragons Paper (Holdings) Limited operates as a subsidiary of Best Result Holdings Limited.

About Sealed Air

Sealed Air Corporation provides packaging solutions in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. It operates through two segments, Food and Protective. The Food segment offers integrated packaging materials and automation equipment solutions to provide food safety, shelf life extension, reduce food waste, automate processes, and optimize total cost for food processors in the fresh red meat, smoked and processed meats, poultry, seafood, plant-based, fluids and liquids and cheese markets under the CRYOVAC, CRYOVAC Grip & Tear, CRYOVAC Darfresh, LIQUIBOX, Simple Steps, and Optidure brands. This segment sells its solutions directly to customers through its sales, marketing, and customer service personnel. The Protective segment provides shrink films, bagging systems, foam, inflatable, and suspension and retention packaging solutions to protect goods to e-commerce, consumer goods, pharmaceutical and medical devices, and industrial manufacturing markets under the SEALED AIR, BUBBLE WRAP, AUTOBAG, Instapak, and Korrvu brands. This segment sells its solutions through supply distributors, as well as directly to fabricators, original equipment manufacturers, contract manufacturers, logistics partners, and e-commerce/fulfillment operations. The company was incorporated in 1960 and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.