ACCO vs. NP, EBF, KRT, TG, CLW, SCS, TILE, PBI, NL, and ARC
Should you be buying ACCO Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ACCO Brands include Neenah (NP), Ennis (EBF), Karat Packaging (KRT), Tredegar (TG), Clearwater Paper (CLW), Steelcase (SCS), Interface (TILE), Pitney Bowes (PBI), NL Industries (NL), and ARC Document Solutions (ARC).
Neenah (NYSE:NP) and ACCO Brands (NYSE:ACCO) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.
ACCO Brands has a consensus price target of $7.50, suggesting a potential upside of 47.35%. Given Neenah's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe ACCO Brands is more favorable than Neenah.
In the previous week, ACCO Brands had 4 more articles in the media than Neenah. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for ACCO Brands and 0 mentions for Neenah. Neenah's average media sentiment score of 0.34 beat ACCO Brands' score of 0.22 indicating that ACCO Brands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
ACCO Brands has higher revenue and earnings than Neenah. Neenah is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ACCO Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ACCO Brands has a net margin of -1.36% compared to ACCO Brands' net margin of -2.53%. Neenah's return on equity of 12.42% beat ACCO Brands' return on equity.
Neenah has a beta of 1.46, indicating that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ACCO Brands has a beta of 1.66, indicating that its share price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500.
93.4% of Neenah shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.6% of ACCO Brands shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Neenah shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.3% of ACCO Brands shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
ACCO Brands received 237 more outperform votes than Neenah when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.76% of users gave ACCO Brands an outperform vote while only 44.30% of users gave Neenah an outperform vote.
Neenah pays an annual dividend of $1.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. ACCO Brands pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. Neenah pays out -115.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ACCO Brands pays out -111.1% 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. Neenah is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
ACCO Brands beats Neenah on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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