MSA vs. AVY, HNI, SCS, TILE, PBI, ACCO, NL, ARC, ZBH, and ALGN
Should you be buying MSA Safety stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MSA Safety include Avery Dennison (AVY), HNI (HNI), Steelcase (SCS), Interface (TILE), Pitney Bowes (PBI), ACCO Brands (ACCO), NL Industries (NL), ARC Document Solutions (ARC), Zimmer Biomet (ZBH), and Align Technology (ALGN).
MSA Safety (NYSE:MSA) and Avery Dennison (NYSE:AVY) are both industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, dividends, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability and earnings.
In the previous week, Avery Dennison had 14 more articles in the media than MSA Safety. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Avery Dennison and 3 mentions for MSA Safety. MSA Safety's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Avery Dennison's score of 0.86 indicating that MSA Safety is being referred to more favorably in the media.
MSA Safety presently has a consensus price target of $189.50, indicating a potential upside of 5.28%. Avery Dennison has a consensus price target of $228.50, indicating a potential upside of 0.40%. Given MSA Safety's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe MSA Safety is more favorable than Avery Dennison.
Avery Dennison has higher revenue and earnings than MSA Safety. MSA Safety is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Avery Dennison, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
92.5% of MSA Safety shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.2% of Avery Dennison shares are held by institutional investors. 6.2% of MSA Safety shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Avery Dennison shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
MSA Safety has a net margin of 14.81% compared to Avery Dennison's net margin of 6.56%. Avery Dennison's return on equity of 32.59% beat MSA Safety's return on equity.
MSA Safety has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Avery Dennison has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
MSA Safety pays an annual dividend of $2.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Avery Dennison pays an annual dividend of $3.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. MSA Safety pays out 30.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Avery Dennison pays out 51.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Avery Dennison received 120 more outperform votes than MSA Safety when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.04% of users gave MSA Safety an outperform vote while only 57.30% of users gave Avery Dennison an outperform vote.
Summary
Avery Dennison beats MSA Safety on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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