HNI vs. MSA, SCS, PBI, TILE, ACCO, NL, ARC, AVY, DUOL, and CFLT
Should you be buying HNI stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HNI include MSA Safety (MSA), Steelcase (SCS), Pitney Bowes (PBI), Interface (TILE), ACCO Brands (ACCO), NL Industries (NL), ARC Document Solutions (ARC), Avery Dennison (AVY), Duolingo (DUOL), and Confluent (CFLT).
HNI (NYSE:HNI) and MSA Safety (NYSE:MSA) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
MSA Safety has a net margin of 14.81% compared to HNI's net margin of 2.57%. MSA Safety's return on equity of 31.51% beat HNI's return on equity.
In the previous week, HNI had 2 more articles in the media than MSA Safety. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for HNI and 5 mentions for MSA Safety. MSA Safety's average media sentiment score of 1.37 beat HNI's score of 0.57 indicating that MSA Safety is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
MSA Safety has lower revenue, but higher earnings than HNI. MSA Safety is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HNI, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
HNI pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. MSA Safety pays an annual dividend of $2.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. HNI pays out 97.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. MSA Safety pays out 30.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
MSA Safety received 53 more outperform votes than HNI when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.04% of users gave MSA Safety an outperform vote while only 56.77% of users gave HNI an outperform vote.
HNI presently has a consensus target price of $57.00, indicating a potential upside of 28.96%. MSA Safety has a consensus target price of $189.50, indicating a potential upside of 10.67%. Given HNI's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe HNI is more favorable than MSA Safety.
HNI has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MSA Safety has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
75.3% of HNI shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.5% of MSA Safety shares are held by institutional investors. 3.4% of HNI shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.1% of MSA Safety shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
MSA Safety beats HNI on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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