Greif Competitors

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USD 76.29 0.56 0.74%

Greif Bros competes with Sonoco Products, YETI Holdings, LCI Industries, Columbia Sportswear, and Ermenegildo Zegna; as well as few others. The company runs under Containers & Packaging sector within Materials industry. Analyzing Greif Bros competition allows you to expand the diversification possibilities of your existing portfolios and to get a better perspective on locking in new positions. Investors sometimes prefer comparable analysis of Greif Bros to its intrinsic valuation because they are able to contrast its competitors on a relative basis. Check out Greif Bros Correlation with its peers.

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Greif Bros vs American Eagle Correlation

Modest diversification

The correlation between Greif Bros and AEO is 0.28 (i.e., Modest diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Greif Bros and AEO in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.

Moving together with Greif Stock

0.91	OI	O I Glass	Pair Corr
0.7	ATR	AptarGroup	Pair Corr
0.94	MYE	Myers Industries	Pair Corr
0.89	SLGN	Silgan Holdings	Pair Corr

Moving against Greif Stock

0.81	GRAB	Grab Holdings Earnings Call This Week	Pair Corr
0.4	MAPSW	WM Technology	Pair Corr

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Sophisticated investors, who have witnessed many market ups and downs, anticipate that the market will even out over time. This tendency of Greif Bros' price to converge to an average value over time is called mean reversion. However, historically, high market prices usually discourage investors that believe in mean reversion to invest, while low prices are viewed as an opportunity to buy.

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Low	Estimated	High
74.43	75.96	77.49

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Low	Real	High
68.35	82.22	83.75

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Greif Bros Competition Correlation Matrix

Typically, diversification allows investors to combine positions across different asset classes to reduce overall portfolio risk. Correlation between Greif Bros and its competitors represents the degree of relationship between the price movements of corresponding stocks. A correlation of about +1.0 implies that the price of Greif and its corresponding peer move in tandem. A correlation of -1.0 means that prices move in opposite directions. A correlation of close to zero suggests that the price movements of assets are uncorrelated; in other words, the historical price movement of Greif Bros does not affect the price movement of the other competitor.

	SON	YETI	LCII	COLM	ZGN	TPH	GRBK	PRKS	DAN	AEO
SON		0.8	0.95	0.6	-0.15	0.68	0.64	0.63	0.97	0.09	SON
YETI	0.8		0.76	0.45	0.08	0.59	0.57	0.85	0.77	0.54	YETI
LCII	0.95	0.76		0.58	-0.28	0.66	0.62	0.64	0.98	0.07	LCII
COLM	0.6	0.45	0.58		0.29	0.54	0.37	0.31	0.57	0.02	COLM
ZGN	-0.15	0.08	-0.28	0.29		0.2	-0.06	0.0	-0.2	0.02	ZGN
TPH	0.68	0.59	0.66	0.54	0.2		0.67	0.57	0.67	-0.13	TPH
GRBK	0.64	0.57	0.62	0.37	-0.06	0.67		0.6	0.59	0.26	GRBK
PRKS	0.63	0.85	0.64	0.31	0.0	0.57	0.6		0.62	0.66	PRKS
DAN	0.97	0.77	0.98	0.57	-0.2	0.67	0.59	0.62		0.01	DAN
AEO	0.09	0.54	0.07	0.02	0.02	-0.13	0.26	0.66	0.01		AEO
	SON	YETI	LCII	COLM	ZGN	TPH	GRBK	PRKS	DAN	AEO

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High positive correlations

DAN	+ 0.98	LCII
DAN	+ 0.97	SON
LCII	+ 0.95	SON
PRKS	+ 0.85	YETI
YETI	+ 0.8	SON
DAN	+ 0.77	YETI

High negative correlations

ZGN	- 0.28	LCII
DAN	- 0.2	ZGN
ZGN	- 0.15	SON
AEO	- 0.13	TPH
GRBK	- 0.06	ZGN
PRKS	- 0.0	ZGN

Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Greif Stock performing well and Greif Bros Company doing well as a business compared to the competition. There are so many exceptions to the norm that investors cannot definitively determine what's good or bad unless they analyze Greif Bros' multiple risk-adjusted performance indicators across the competitive landscape. These indicators are quantitative in nature and help investors forecast volatility and risk-adjusted expected returns across various positions.

	Mean Deviation	Jensen Alpha	Sortino Ratio	Treynor Ratio	Semi Deviation	Expected Shortfall	Potential Upside	Value @Risk	Maximum Drawdown
SON	1.03	0.31	0.26	0.46	0.73	(1.22)	2.97	(1.55)	6.88
YETI	1.54	0.30	0.17	0.28	1.58	(1.78)	3.62	(2.93)	12.03
LCII	1.27	0.57	0.55	0.77	0.00	(1.59)	3.99	(1.78)	11.30
COLM	1.99	0.18	0.10	0.20	1.89	(2.51)	3.74	(3.25)	21.48
ZGN	1.90	0.14	0.04	0.19	2.92	(2.03)	3.59	(2.95)	17.11
TPH	1.54	0.15	0.10	0.19	1.38	(1.85)	5.16	(2.65)	11.56
GRBK	1.48	0.25	0.19	0.27	1.17	(1.90)	4.56	(1.97)	10.63
PRKS	2.12	0.01	0.01	0.08	2.59	(2.27)	4.60	(4.04)	15.14
DAN	1.86	0.68	0.40	0.53	1.04	(2.20)	5.01	(2.67)	13.40
AEO	2.34	0.51	0.21	0.48	2.04	(2.64)	5.78	(3.78)	19.55

Greif Bros Competitive Analysis

The better you understand Greif Bros competitors, the better chance you have of utilizing it as a position in your portfolios. From an individual investor's perspective, Greif Bros' competitive analysis can cover a whole range of metrics. Some of these will be more critical depending on who you are as an investor and how you react to market volatility. However, if you are locking your investment sandscape to a long-term horizon, comparing the fundamental indicator across Greif Bros' competition over several years is one of the best ways to analyze its investment potential.

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	GEF	SON	YETI	LCII	COLM	ZGN	TPH	GRBK	PRKS	DAN
	0.74 76.29 Greif	0.16 51.42 Sonoco	0.23 47.35 YETI	1.16 154.79 LCI	0.50 61.88 Columbia	1.57 10.98 Ermenegildo	0.92 36.57 TRI	0.35 77.56 Green	6.48 33.48 United	0.72 33.16 Dana
Market Volatility (90 Days Market Risk)	Very steady	Very steady	Very steady	Very steady	Very steady	Somewhat reliable	Very steady	Very steady	Very steady	Very steady
Market Performance (90 Days Performance)	Solid	Solid	Solid	Strong	Fair	Mild	Fair	Good	Soft	Solid
Odds of Financial Distress (Probability Of Bankruptcy)	Low	Small	Low	Tiny	Tiny	Tiny	Low	Tiny	Moderate	Low
Current Valuation (Equity Enterprise Value)	Under Valued	Under Valued	Fairly Valued	Fairly Valued	Fairly Valued	Over Valued	Fairly Valued	Over Valued	Under Valued	Over Valued
Buy or Sell Advice (Average Analysts Consensus)	Not Available	Not Available	Not Available	Not Available	Not Available	Not Available	Not Available	Hold	Not Available	Not Available
Trade Advice (90 Days Macroaxis Advice)	Strong Buy	Strong Buy	Strong Buy	Strong Buy	Buy	Cautious Hold	Strong Buy	Strong Buy	Cautious Hold	Strong Buy
Current Ratio	1.48	1.36	1.83	2.66	2.81	2.36	13.73	6.95	N/A	1.49
Net Asset	5.77 B	12.51 B	1.29 B	2.89 B	2.93 B	2.83 B	4.94 B	2.25 B	2.57 B	7.49 B
Profit Margin	0.25	0.0883	0.0875	0.0449	0.0522	0.0497	0.0827	0.16	0.11	0.0055
EBITDA	440.29 M	610.97 M	293.51 M	343.93 M	286.46 M	406.23 M	647.89 M	481.83 M	622.73 M	743 M
Operating Margin	0.0568	0.12	0.11	0.0728	0.11	0.074	0.0915	0.2	0.3	0.0386
Current Valuation	4.65 B	10.22 B	3.72 B	4.75 B	3.05 B	3.68 B	3.49 B	3.62 B	4.19 B	6.87 B
Price To Book	1.46	1.53	5.21	2.75	1.97	2.61	0.91	1.92	181.66	3.43
Retained Earnings	3.19 B	2.58 B	614.12 M	1.21 B	1.84 B	668.73 M	3.33 B	1.33 B	637.6 M	204 M
Current Asset	920.3 M	1.31 B	N/A	245.83 M	1.25 B	N/A	2.91 B	15.56 M	N/A	2.47 B
Five Year Return	3.7	2.99	N/A	2.56	0.97	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1.92
Beta	0.96	0.53	1.77	1.32	0.88	0.75	1.41	2.0	1.17	2.16
Number Of Employees	12 K	23.4 K	1.34 K	11.5 K	9.78 K	7.45 K	1.75 K	650	3.3 K	28 K
Shares Outstanding	24.75 M	98.63 M	77.81 M	24.2 M	53.89 M	254.09 M	85.95 M	43.57 M	54.55 M	116.84 M
Cash Flow From Operations	58.6 M	833.85 M	261.39 M	370.28 M	282.9 M	279.13 M	696.06 M	25.91 M	480.14 M	450 M
Annual Yield	0.0296	0.0413	N/A	0.0297	0.0192	0.0129	N/A	N/A	N/A	0.0184
Total Debt	1.57 B	7.3 B	172.5 M	995.85 M	866.88 M	1.04 B	1.1 B	344.95 M	2.36 B	2.91 B
Return On Equity	0.0723	0.0635	0.22	0.13	0.1	0.12	0.0946	0.21	N/A	0.0531
Return On Asset	0.0417	0.0447	0.11	0.0526	0.05	0.039	0.0532	0.12	0.0959	0.034
Number Of Shares Shorted	856.5 K	6.48 M	8.22 M	2.37 M	3.03 M	3.72 M	4.71 M	1.54 M	6.08 M	4.28 M
Book Value Per Share	52.34	33.51	9.0	56.27	31.85	4.15	38.4	40.32	-5.62	8.97
Current Liabilities	659.2 M	922.52 M	N/A	98.86 M	366.07 M	N/A	125.41 M	4.6 M	N/A	1.09 B
Total Asset	5.77 B	12.51 B	1.29 B	2.89 B	2.93 B	2.83 B	4.94 B	2.25 B	2.57 B	7.49 B
Debt To Equity	1.32	1.77	0.35	0.96	0.21	1.5	0.57	0.4	N/A	1.51
Short Ratio	3.44	6.87	5.33	6.24	5.65	5.19	5.99	7.87	5.82	1.95
Target Price	79.6	53.75	44.21	129.44	64.5	11.69	38.2	62.0	44.45	26.14
Last Dividend Paid	2.4	2.1	N/A	4.6	1.2	0.12	N/A	N/A	N/A	0.4
Shares Owned By Institutions	98.26	83.38	99.5	96.23	53.59	25.1	97.31	78.75	97.99	99.42
Market Capitalization	4.29 B	5.06 B	3.82 B	3.75 B	3.41 B	2.73 B	3.2 B	3.37 B	2.03 B	2.46 B
Price To Earning	11.33	31.13	23.08	16.13	16.87	7.61	7.26	10.9	N/A	23.25
Price To Earnings To Growth	2.25	0.2	1.66	1.09	2.66	1.83	1.13	0.76	N/A	6.85
Price To Sales	1.0	0.71	2.09	0.94	1.0	1.43	0.85	1.59	1.22	0.39
Net Income	16.47 M	163.94 M	175.69 M	142.87 M	177.22 M	90.86 M	457.97 M	417.15 M	227.5 M	(49 M)
Earnings Per Share	2.42	1.85	1.93	7.15	3.23	0.44	3.39	7.62	3.31	0.44
Shares Owned By Insiders	3.6	0.93	0.5	3.77	54.16	63.46	2.69	8.21	2.01	0.58
Revenue	4.29 B	5.31 B	1.83 B	3.74 B	3.4 B	1.95 B	4.49 B	2.1 B	1.73 B	10.28 B
Working Capital	535 M	(859.73 M)	447.26 M	748.18 M	1.24 B	353.28 M	4.04 B	1.88 B	(142.44 M)	1.14 B
Cash And Equivalents	256.7 M	431.01 M	91.99 M	54.99 M	160.19 M	668.65 M	970.04 M	66.77 M	N/A	494 M
Cash Per Share	2.68	1.79	1.07	2.16	2.58	2.75	2.66	1.45	N/A	2.68
Gross Profit	953.93 M	1.53 B	1.06 B	943.79 M	1.72 B	1.29 B	861.31 M	672.8 M	802.06 M	947 M
Day Typical Price	75.96	51.49	47.72	155.46	62.3	10.92	36.97	78.02	34.48	33.05
Accumulation Distribution	4103.34	0.0123	40823.99	14123.88	37575.25	20642.2	24494.77	5872.33	103085.0	62243.15
Market Facilitation Index	0.0	0.64	0.0	0.0	0.0	N/A	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Daily Balance Of Power	0.3457	0.125	(0.04)	(0.23)	(0.11)	0.5152	(0.25)	0.108	(0.75)	(0.14)
Period Momentum Indicator	0.56	0.08	(0.11)	(1.81)	(0.31)	0.17	(0.34)	0.27	(2.32)	(0.24)
Rate Of Daily Change	1.01	1.0	1.0	0.99	1.0	1.02	0.99	1.0	0.94	0.99
Day Median Price	75.79	51.52	47.91	155.79	62.51	10.89	37.17	78.25	34.98	33.0
Price Action Indicator	0.78	(0.06)	(0.61)	(1.91)	(0.78)	0.18	(0.77)	(0.55)	(2.66)	0.04
Coefficient Of Variation	392.41	372.68	501.63	292.53	1038.17	1204.26	929.08	592.63	2477.09	320.14
Mean Deviation	1.19	1.03	1.54	1.27	1.99	1.9	1.54	1.48	2.12	1.86
Jensen Alpha	0.3201	0.3138	0.3004	0.5737	0.1781	0.1351	0.1499	0.2459	0.0074	0.6826
Total Risk Alpha	0.2472	0.2471	0.2224	0.4684	0.0172	(0.02)	0.0372	0.1557	(0.14)	0.5654
Sortino Ratio	0.1906	0.2641	0.1744	0.5534	0.0964	0.0448	0.1019	0.1863	0.0131	0.4022
Downside Variance	2.64	1.29	3.63	1.03	4.45	10.52	2.68	1.97	7.08	3.18
Standard Deviation	1.53	1.42	2.07	1.88	2.95	2.72	2.3	2.03	2.87	2.55
Kurtosis	(0.10)	1.89	1.24	7.75	8.3	8.87	3.16	1.39	1.8	3.27
Potential Upside	2.78	2.97	3.62	3.99	3.74	3.59	5.16	4.56	4.6	5.01
Treynor Ratio	0.4441	0.4611	0.2784	0.7668	0.2017	0.1889	0.1918	0.2716	0.0761	0.529
Maximum Drawdown	6.4	6.88	12.03	11.3	21.48	17.11	11.56	10.63	15.14	13.4
Variance	2.35	2.01	4.29	3.53	8.71	7.4	5.29	4.12	8.21	6.53
Market Risk Adjusted Performance	0.4541	0.4711	0.2884	0.7768	0.2117	0.1989	0.2018	0.2816	0.0861	0.539
Risk Adjusted Performance	0.2117	0.2222	0.168	0.2833	0.0855	0.0745	0.0939	0.143	0.0399	0.2605
Skewness	(0.1)	0.788	0.2833	2.18	1.82	(1.93)	1.53	1.07	0.5544	1.24
Semi Deviation	1.24	0.7259	1.58	0.0	1.89	2.92	1.38	1.17	2.59	1.04
Information Ratio	0.2022	0.2114	0.1604	0.2989	0.069	0.0534	0.0725	0.129	0.0122	0.2808
Value At Risk	(2.01)	(1.55)	(2.93)	(1.78)	(3.25)	(2.95)	(2.65)	(1.97)	(4.04)	(2.67)
Expected Short fall	(1.28)	(1.22)	(1.78)	(1.59)	(2.51)	(2.03)	(1.85)	(1.90)	(2.27)	(2.20)
Downside Deviation	1.63	1.14	1.9	1.01	2.11	3.24	1.64	1.4	2.66	1.78
Semi Variance	1.54	0.527	2.48	(0.02)	3.56	8.53	1.89	1.36	6.73	1.08

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Five steps to successful analysis of Greif Bros Competition

Greif Bros' competitive analysis is the process of researching and evaluating its competitive landscape. It provides an understanding of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) faced by Greif Bros in relation to its competition. Greif Bros' competition analysis typically involves several steps, including:

Identifying the key players in the market: This involves identifying the major competitors of Greif Bros in the market, both direct and indirect, as well as new entrants and disruptive technologies.
Assessing the strengths and weaknesses of each competitor: This involves evaluating each competitor's strengths and weaknesses in areas such as product offerings, market share, brand recognition, financial performance, and distribution channels.
Understanding the competitive environment: This involves evaluating the regulatory environment, economic conditions, and other factors that may impact Greif Bros' competitive landscape.
Identifying opportunities and threats: This involves using the information gathered during the analysis to identify opportunities and threats to Greif Bros, and developing a strategy to address them.
Evaluating the competitive landscape: This involves understanding the competitive dynamics of the market, such as pricing, marketing, and distribution strategies, as well as analyzing the competitive advantage of each competitor.

Competitive analysis is an essential tool for businesses to stay ahead of the competition and can be used to inform decision-making and strategy development. By understanding the competitive landscape and staying informed about the activities of competitors, a company can make more informed decisions and improve its overall performance.

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Greif Bros vs American Eagle Correlation

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Moving together with Greif Stock

Moving against Greif Stock

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Greif Bros Competition Correlation Matrix

High positive correlations

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

Greif Bros Competitive Analysis

Greif Bros Competition Performance Charts

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