Post Time：Dec 23,2010Classify:Industry NewsView：484
Dec 22, 2010 (SmarTrend(R) News Watch via COMTEX) -- Below are the five companies in the Metal & Glass Containers industry with the lowest projected earnings growth. The growth of earnings per share (current fiscal year estimated vs. last year actual) is important to gauge future profitability and relative value. Higher EPS growth generally justifies higher earnings multiples.
Silgan Holdings (NASDAQ:SLGN) has the lowest projected earnings growth of 3.87%; Crown Holdings (NYSE:CCK) is next with projected earnings growth of 9.20%; and Ball (NYSE:BLL) has the next lowest with projected earnings growth of 12.72%.
Greif (NYSE:GEF) follows with projected earnings growth of 13.38% and Aptargroup (NYSE:ATR) rounds out the group with projected earnings growth of 34.14%.
SmarTrend currently has shares of Ball in an Uptrend and issued the Uptrend alert on July 14, 2010 at $55.42. The stock has risen 25% since the Uptrend alert was issued.
Source: http://www.zacks.com/research/get_news.php?id=356lAuthor: shangyi
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