DLX vs. EBF, QUAD, ACCO, AUR, ENV, ZETA, NSP, MAN, CXT, and KFY
Should you be buying Deluxe stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Deluxe include Ennis (EBF), Quad/Graphics (QUAD), ACCO Brands (ACCO), Aurora Innovation (AUR), Envestnet (ENV), Zeta Global (ZETA), Insperity (NSP), ManpowerGroup (MAN), Crane NXT (CXT), and Korn Ferry (KFY).
Ennis (NYSE:EBF) and Deluxe (NYSE:DLX) are both small-cap industrial products 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.
Ennis has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Deluxe. Ennis is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Deluxe, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
74.3% of Ennis shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.9% of Deluxe shares are held by institutional investors. 2.6% of Ennis shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.2% of Deluxe 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.
Ennis pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Deluxe pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. Ennis pays out 61.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Deluxe pays out 155.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Deluxe received 115 more outperform votes than Ennis when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.16% of users gave Ennis an outperform vote while only 66.58% of users gave Deluxe an outperform vote.
Ennis has a net margin of 10.14% compared to Ennis' net margin of 1.57%. Ennis' return on equity of 21.33% beat Deluxe's return on equity.
Deluxe has a consensus price target of $31.00, suggesting a potential upside of 36.38%. Given Ennis' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Deluxe is more favorable than Ennis.
In the previous week, Ennis had 2 more articles in the media than Deluxe. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Ennis and 3 mentions for Deluxe. Ennis' average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Deluxe's score of 0.21 indicating that Deluxe is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ennis has a beta of 0.45, indicating that its share price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Deluxe has a beta of 1.48, indicating that its share price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Deluxe beats Ennis on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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