Analyzing UPM-Kymmene (OTCMKTS:UPMKY) & Mondi Plc Uns (OTCMKTS:MONDY)

Mondi Plc Uns (OTCMKTS:MONDY) and UPM-Kymmene (OTCMKTS:UPMKY) are both materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and risk.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

0.6% of UPM-Kymmene shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of UPM-Kymmene shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Mondi Plc Uns and UPM-Kymmene’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Mondi Plc Uns	N/A	N/A	N/A
UPM-Kymmene	13.76%	12.57%	8.65%

Dividends

Mondi Plc Uns pays an annual dividend of $0.34 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. UPM-Kymmene pays an annual dividend of $1.21 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. UPM-Kymmene pays out 45.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings for Mondi Plc Uns and UPM-Kymmene, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Mondi Plc Uns	1	2	0	1	2.25
UPM-Kymmene	0	0	0	0	0.00

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Mondi Plc Uns and UPM-Kymmene”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Mondi Plc Uns	$8.67 billion	0.60	$186.68 million	N/A	N/A
UPM-Kymmene	$12.38 billion	1.14	$1.77 billion	$2.65	9.98

UPM-Kymmene has higher revenue and earnings than Mondi Plc Uns.

Volatility and Risk

Mondi Plc Uns has a beta of 0.65, indicating that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, UPM-Kymmene has a beta of 1.23, indicating that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

UPM-Kymmene beats Mondi Plc Uns on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Mondi Plc Uns

Mondi plc, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of packaging and paper solutions in Africa, Western Europe, Emerging Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Australia, and internationally. The company operates in three segments: Corrugated Packaging, Flexible Packaging, and Uncoated Fine Paper. The Corrugated Packaging segment provides virgin and recycled containerboards for fresh fruit packaging and heavy and fragile goods transport packaging applications; and corrugated solutions, such as corrugated boxes and packaging products. The Flexible Packaging segment offers sack kraft paper, paper bags, specialty kraft paper, consumer flexibles, and functional paper and films. The Uncoated Fine Paper segment provides uncoated fine paper comprising home, office, converting, and professional printing papers; and market pulp. It serves customers in the agriculture, automotive, building and construction, chemicals, food and beverages, home and personal care, pet care, retail, and shipping and transport industries. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Weybridge, the United Kingdom.

About UPM-Kymmene

UPM-Kymmene Oyj operates in the forest-based bio industry. It operates through UPM Biorefining, UPM Energy, UPM Raflatac, UPM Specialty Papers, UPM Communication Papers, UPM Plywood, and Other operations segments. The company provides eucalyptus, birch, and softwood pulp grades for tissue, specialty and graphic papers, boards, and packaging; sawn timber for construction, packaging, distribution, joinery, and furniture industries; and wood-based renewable diesel and renewable naphtha for fuel distributors, transportation, and oil and petrochemicals industries. It is also involved in the generation of electricity through hydro, nuclear, and condensing power plants. In addition, the company offers self-adhesive papers and film label stocks for product and information labelling to label printers and brand owners in food, beverage, personal care, pharmaceutical, and retail segments; label papers and release liners, fine papers, and flexible packaging, as well as label and packaging papers production lines for retailers, printers, publishers, distributors, and paper converters; and graphic papers for advertising, magazines, newspapers, and home and office to publishers, cataloguers, retailers, printers, and merchants. Further, it provides plywood and veneer products for construction, vehicle flooring, liquefied natural gas shipbuilding, and other manufacturing industries; wood and wood-based biomass, and forestry services for woodland and forest owners; outdoor products for construction, and granulates for injection molding and extrusion; wood-based lignin products for industrial use and cell culture hydrogel products for biomedical applications; and biomedical products. The company primarily operates in Europe, North America, and Asia. UPM-Kymmene Oyj was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland.