AVY vs. MSA, HNI, SCS, PBI, TILE, ACCO, NL, ARC, KMB, and PACK
Should you be buying Avery Dennison stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Avery Dennison include MSA Safety (MSA), HNI (HNI), Steelcase (SCS), Pitney Bowes (PBI), Interface (TILE), ACCO Brands (ACCO), NL Industries (NL), ARC Document Solutions (ARC), Kimberly-Clark (KMB), and Ranpak (PACK).
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 analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, valuation, earnings and community ranking.
MSA Safety has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Avery Dennison has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
92.5% of MSA Safety shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.2% of Avery Dennison shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.2% of MSA Safety shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Avery Dennison shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
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. Avery Dennison's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat MSA Safety's score of 0.86 indicating that MSA Safety is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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.
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. MSA Safety has raised its dividend for 55 consecutive years and Avery Dennison has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years.
MSA Safety has a net margin of 14.81% compared to MSA Safety's net margin of 6.56%. MSA Safety's return on equity of 32.59% beat Avery Dennison's return on equity.
MSA Safety presently has a consensus target price of $189.50, suggesting a potential upside of 5.28%. Avery Dennison has a consensus target price of $228.50, suggesting a potential upside of 0.40%. Given Avery Dennison's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly 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.
Summary
Avery Dennison beats MSA Safety on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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