Greif (NYSE:GEF) & JBDI Holdings Limited Ordinary Shares (NASDAQ:JBDI) Head-To-Head Analysis

JBDI Holdings Limited Ordinary Shares (NASDAQ:JBDI) and Greif (NYSE:GEF) are both business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends and risk.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares JBDI Holdings Limited Ordinary Shares and Greif”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
JBDI Holdings Limited Ordinary Shares	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Greif	$5.34 billion	0.64	$359.20 million	$4.60	15.68

Greif has higher revenue and earnings than JBDI Holdings Limited Ordinary Shares.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

45.7% of Greif shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.1% of Greif shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares JBDI Holdings Limited Ordinary Shares and Greif’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
JBDI Holdings Limited Ordinary Shares	N/A	N/A	N/A
Greif	4.99%	13.28%	4.24%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for JBDI Holdings Limited Ordinary Shares and Greif, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
JBDI Holdings Limited Ordinary Shares	0	0	0	0	0.00
Greif	0	2	4	0	2.67

Greif has a consensus price target of $79.40, indicating a potential upside of 10.05%. Given Greif’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Greif is more favorable than JBDI Holdings Limited Ordinary Shares.

Summary

Greif beats JBDI Holdings Limited Ordinary Shares on 9 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About JBDI Holdings Limited Ordinary Shares

JBDI Holdings Limited engages in the trading of reconditioned and recycling containers in Singapore and the Southeast Asia region. The company offers reconditioning and recycling drums, including open top drums, metal drums, plastic drums, plastic carboys, and intermediate bulk containers, as well as new drums, and collects waste drums and related products. It serves solvent, chemical, petroleum, and edible product oil industries. The company was founded in 1983 and is based in Singapore. JBDI Holdings Limited operates as a subsidiary of E U Holdings Pte. Ltd.

About Greif

Greif, Inc. engages in the production and sale of industrial packaging products and services worldwide. The company operates through Global Industrial Packaging; Paper Packaging & Services; and Land Management segments. The Global Industrial Packaging segment produces and sells industrial packaging products, including steel, fiber, and plastic drums; rigid and flexible intermediate bulk containers; closure systems for industrial packaging products; transit protection products; water bottles, and remanufactured and reconditioned industrial containers; and various services, such as container life cycle management, filling, logistics, warehousing, and other packaging services to chemicals, paints and pigments, food and beverage, petroleum, industrial coatings, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, mineral product, and other industries. The Paper Packaging & Services segment produces and sells containerboards, corrugated sheets and containers, and other corrugated and specialty products to customers in the packaging, automotive, food, and building products markets; and produces and sells coated and uncoated recycled paperboard, and recycled fiber. This segment's corrugated container products are used to ship various products, such as home appliances, small machinery, grocery products, automotive components, books, and furniture, as well as various other applications. The Land Management segment engages in harvesting and regeneration of timber properties; and sale of timberland and special use properties. As of October 31, 2023, this segment owned approximately 175,000 acres of timber properties in the southeastern United States. The company was formerly known as Greif Bros. Corporation and changed its name to Greif, Inc. in 2001. Greif, Inc. was founded in 1877 and is headquartered in Delaware, Ohio.