Both in Materials Manufacturing

Belden vs Greif

Over the past year BDC returned −8.6% and GEF returned +45.9%; their daily moves had a correlation of 0.31.

BDC −8.6% GEF +45.9%Growth of $1, one year, split-adjusted
MetricBDCGEF
Price$107.44$82.82
Market cap$4.20B$4.71B
Today+1.65%+1.01%
1 month−4.5%+0.8%
6 months−4.1%+25.4%
Year to date−7.8%+22.3%
1 year−12.1%+46.0%
Revenue growth (YoY)+38.3%+3.5%
Gross margin35.1%23.4%
Net margin−1.2%3.7%
P/E (TTM)23.9×—
Price / sales1.3×—
Net cash-$2.67B-$769.3M
Dividend yield0.19%2.99%
Volatility (60d)40.7%20.1%
Short % of float9.6%10.7%
Next earnings——

Shading marks the stronger figure where one clearly exists (lower is better for valuation and volatility).