PBI vs. HNI, SCS, TILE, ACCO, NL, ARC, AVY, MSA, ACLS, and ACIW
Should you be buying Pitney Bowes stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pitney Bowes include HNI (HNI), Steelcase (SCS), Interface (TILE), ACCO Brands (ACCO), NL Industries (NL), ARC Document Solutions (ARC), Avery Dennison (AVY), MSA Safety (MSA), Axcelis Technologies (ACLS), and ACI Worldwide (ACIW).
Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI) and HNI (NYSE:HNI) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, profitability and risk.
Pitney Bowes received 17 more outperform votes than HNI when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.77% of users gave HNI an outperform vote while only 54.58% of users gave Pitney Bowes an outperform vote.
Pitney Bowes has a beta of 2.14, meaning that its share price is 114% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HNI has a beta of 0.87, meaning that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
HNI has a net margin of 2.57% compared to Pitney Bowes' net margin of -11.67%. HNI's return on equity of 17.75% beat Pitney Bowes' return on equity.
HNI has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Pitney Bowes. Pitney Bowes is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HNI, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
HNI has a consensus price target of $57.00, suggesting a potential upside of 21.15%. Given HNI's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe HNI is more favorable than Pitney Bowes.
67.9% of Pitney Bowes shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.3% of HNI shares are held by institutional investors. 14.3% of Pitney Bowes shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.4% of HNI shares are held by company 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.
Pitney Bowes pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. HNI pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Pitney Bowes pays out -9.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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. Pitney Bowes is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, HNI had 3 more articles in the media than Pitney Bowes. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for HNI and 7 mentions for Pitney Bowes. Pitney Bowes' average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat HNI's score of 0.56 indicating that Pitney Bowes is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
HNI beats Pitney Bowes on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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