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$51.63 +0.70 (+1.37%)
(As of 12/20/2024 05:16 PM ET)

HNI vs. MSA, TILE, SCS, PBI, ACCO, NL, ARC, AVY, PSN, and APG

Should you be buying HNI stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HNI include MSA Safety (MSA), Interface (TILE), Steelcase (SCS), Pitney Bowes (PBI), ACCO Brands (ACCO), NL Industries (NL), ARC Document Solutions (ARC), Avery Dennison (AVY), Parsons (PSN), and APi Group (APG).

HNI vs.

HNI (NYSE:HNI) and MSA Safety (NYSE:MSA) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, profitability, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings and institutional ownership.

In the previous week, HNI and HNI both had 9 articles in the media. MSA Safety's average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat HNI's score of 0.66 indicating that MSA Safety is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
HNI
6 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
MSA Safety
5 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

HNI pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. MSA Safety pays an annual dividend of $2.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. HNI pays out 51.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. MSA Safety pays out 29.5% 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. HNI has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years and MSA Safety has increased its dividend for 55 consecutive years.

MSA Safety has a net margin of 15.16% compared to HNI's net margin of 4.83%. MSA Safety's return on equity of 29.14% beat HNI's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
HNI4.83% 19.29% 7.94%
MSA Safety 15.16%29.14%13.45%

HNI presently has a consensus target price of $63.00, suggesting a potential upside of 22.02%. MSA Safety has a consensus target price of $202.50, suggesting a potential upside of 22.45%. Given MSA Safety's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe MSA Safety is more favorable than HNI.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
HNI
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
MSA Safety
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.20

HNI has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MSA Safety has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.

75.3% of HNI shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.5% of MSA Safety shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.4% of HNI shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.2% of MSA Safety shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

MSA Safety received 50 more outperform votes than HNI when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.29% of users gave MSA Safety an outperform vote while only 57.58% of users gave HNI an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
HNIOutperform Votes
247
57.58%
Underperform Votes
182
42.42%
MSA SafetyOutperform Votes
297
64.29%
Underperform Votes
165
35.71%

MSA Safety has lower revenue, but higher earnings than HNI. HNI is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MSA Safety, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
HNI$2.56B0.96$49.20M$2.5820.01
MSA Safety$1.80B3.60$58.58M$6.9223.90

Summary

MSA Safety beats HNI on 19 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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HNI vs. The Competition

MetricHNIOffice furniture, except wood IndustryBusiness SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$2.47B$1.90B$6.95B$19.18B
Dividend Yield2.48%2.75%2.42%3.58%
P/E Ratio20.0110.3627.7241.22
Price / Sales0.960.69439.7217.58
Price / Cash11.809.7230.2921.28
Price / Book3.162.335.705.32
Net Income$49.20M$65.15M$125.76M$989.67M
7 Day Performance-3.98%-6.87%4.00%-3.45%
1 Month Performance-7.07%-8.74%8.78%-3.73%
1 Year Performance22.32%2.72%19.02%12.06%

HNI Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
HNI
HNI
4.8698 of 5 stars
$51.63
+1.4%
$63.00
+22.0%
+22.8%$2.47B$2.56B20.018,200High Trading Volume
MSA
MSA Safety
4.7351 of 5 stars
$174.97
+0.3%
$205.00
+17.2%
+1.1%$6.88B$1.80B25.255,100Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
Positive News
TILE
Interface
3.8168 of 5 stars
$26.26
+0.5%
$22.00
-16.2%
+100.1%$1.53B$1.31B18.273,619Positive News
SCS
Steelcase
4.9169 of 5 stars
$13.28
+2.1%
$17.00
+28.0%
-16.7%$1.51B$3.16B12.2711,300Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
Positive News
PBI
Pitney Bowes
2.913 of 5 stars
$7.84
+1.7%
N/A+81.9%$1.42B$3.27B0.0010,500Gap Down
ACCO
ACCO Brands
4.8618 of 5 stars
$5.88
-0.2%
$7.50
+27.6%
-6.2%$546.14M$1.71B-3.095,600Analyst Downgrade
News Coverage
NL
NL Industries
1.5467 of 5 stars
$8.49
+2.5%
$6.00
-29.3%
+46.9%$414.72M$150.69M6.902,820News Coverage
ARC
ARC Document Solutions
N/A$3.39
flat
N/AN/A$146.65M$281.20M30.821,900Analyst Forecast
AVY
Avery Dennison
4.9007 of 5 stars
$194.26
-0.5%
$244.96
+26.1%
-6.5%$15.61B$8.68B23.4335,000
PSN
Parsons
3.7654 of 5 stars
$98.11
+1.6%
$108.88
+11.0%
+53.7%$10.42B$5.44B146.3118,500Analyst Upgrade
News Coverage
APG
APi Group
3.9439 of 5 stars
$37.72
+0.2%
$43.43
+15.1%
+9.9%$10.36B$6.92B-19.1029,000Positive News

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This page (NYSE:HNI) was last updated on 12/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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