ARC Document Solutions (ARC) Competitors

ARC Document Solutions (NYSE:ARC) and ACCO Brands (NYSE:ACCO) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.

Do analysts rate ARC or ACCO?

ACCO Brands has a consensus price target of $7.00, suggesting a potential upside of 20.27%. Given ACCO Brands' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe ACCO Brands is more favorable than ARC Document Solutions.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
ARC Document Solutions	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	4.00
ACCO Brands	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Which has preferable valuation & earnings, ARC or ACCO?

ARC Document Solutions has higher earnings, but lower revenue than ACCO Brands. ACCO Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ARC Document Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
ARC Document Solutions	$281.20M	0.52	$8.23M	$0.11	30.82
ACCO Brands	$1.83B	0.29	-$21.80M	-$1.89	-3.08

Is ARC or ACCO more profitable?

ARC Document Solutions has a net margin of 1.61% compared to ACCO Brands' net margin of -10.64%. ACCO Brands' return on equity of 14.30% beat ARC Document Solutions' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
ARC Document Solutions	1.61%	5.28%	2.66%
ACCO Brands	-10.64%	14.30%	3.99%

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in ARC or ACCO?

ACCO Brands received 149 more outperform votes than ARC Document Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.20% of users gave ARC Document Solutions an outperform vote while only 59.88% of users gave ACCO Brands an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
ARC Document Solutions	Outperform Votes 260 64.20%	Underperform Votes 145 35.80%
ACCO Brands	Outperform Votes 409 59.88%	Underperform Votes 274 40.12%

Which has more risk and volatility, ARC or ACCO?

ARC Document Solutions has a beta of 1.13, suggesting that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ACCO Brands has a beta of 1.63, suggesting that its stock price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Do insiders and institutionals have more ownership in ARC or ACCO?

48.9% of ARC Document Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.6% of ACCO Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. 18.8% of ARC Document Solutions shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.3% of ACCO Brands shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the media refer more to ARC or ACCO?

In the previous week, ARC Document Solutions had 2 more articles in the media than ACCO Brands. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for ARC Document Solutions and 1 mentions for ACCO Brands. ACCO Brands' average media sentiment score of 1.75 beat ARC Document Solutions' score of 0.97 indicating that ACCO Brands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
ARC Document Solutions	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
ACCO Brands	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive

Is ARC or ACCO a better dividend stock?

ARC Document Solutions pays an annual dividend of $0.20 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 5.2%. ARC Document Solutions pays out 181.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. ACCO Brands pays out -15.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Summary

ARC Document Solutions beats ACCO Brands on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.