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HNI (HNI) Competitors

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$49.72
+0.44 (+0.89%)
(As of 11/1/2024 ET)

HNI vs. MSA, SCS, TILE, PBI, ACCO, NL, ARC, AVY, YMM, and STN

Should you be buying HNI stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HNI include MSA Safety (MSA), Steelcase (SCS), Interface (TILE), Pitney Bowes (PBI), ACCO Brands (ACCO), NL Industries (NL), ARC Document Solutions (ARC), Avery Dennison (AVY), Full Truck Alliance (YMM), and Stantec (STN).

HNI vs.

MSA Safety (NYSE:MSA) and HNI (NYSE:HNI) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, risk and earnings.

MSA Safety received 47 more outperform votes than HNI when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.19% of users gave MSA Safety an outperform vote while only 57.58% of users gave HNI an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
MSA SafetyOutperform Votes
294
64.19%
Underperform Votes
164
35.81%
HNIOutperform Votes
247
57.58%
Underperform Votes
182
42.42%

MSA Safety has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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
MSA Safety$1.79B3.60$58.58M$6.9223.65
HNI$2.56B0.93$49.20M$2.5819.27

MSA Safety presently has a consensus price target of $215.00, indicating a potential upside of 31.41%. HNI has a consensus price target of $63.00, indicating a potential upside of 26.74%. Given MSA Safety's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe MSA Safety is more favorable than HNI.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
MSA Safety
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.50
HNI
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

In the previous week, HNI had 15 more articles in the media than MSA Safety. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for HNI and 7 mentions for MSA Safety. MSA Safety's average media sentiment score of 1.21 beat HNI's score of 0.35 indicating that MSA Safety is being referred to more favorably in the media.

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

MSA Safety pays an annual dividend of $2.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. HNI pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. MSA Safety pays out 29.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. HNI pays out 51.2% 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 increased its dividend for 55 consecutive years and HNI has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years.

92.5% of MSA Safety shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.3% of HNI shares are held by institutional investors. 6.2% of MSA Safety shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.4% of HNI shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

MSA Safety has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HNI has a beta of 0.84, indicating that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.

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
MSA Safety15.16% 29.14% 13.45%
HNI 4.83%19.29%7.94%

Summary

MSA Safety beats HNI on 18 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$2.38B$1.88B$6.56B$19.27B
Dividend Yield2.63%2.98%2.62%3.53%
P/E Ratio19.2710.2439.5941.72
Price / Sales0.930.68214.9214.65
Price / Cash10.758.9124.8820.86
Price / Book2.812.144.555.39
Net Income$49.20M$65.15M$114.67M$985.39M
7 Day Performance-3.76%-3.37%-0.73%-0.71%
1 Month Performance-6.03%-5.93%-0.13%-0.97%
1 Year Performance31.85%20.25%23.53%25.05%

HNI Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
HNI
HNI
4.9292 of 5 stars
$49.72
+0.9%
$63.00
+26.7%
+35.8%$2.38B$2.56B19.278,200Earnings Report
Analyst Upgrade
Short Interest ↑
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
MSA
MSA Safety
4.9807 of 5 stars
$163.61
-1.4%
$215.00
+31.4%
+3.8%$6.43B$1.79B23.645,100Dividend Announcement
Positive News
SCS
Steelcase
4.8433 of 5 stars
$12.14
+0.9%
$17.00
+40.0%
+9.2%$1.38B$3.16B11.4511,300
TILE
Interface
4.1652 of 5 stars
$23.24
+33.0%
$20.00
-13.9%
+158.5%$1.35B$1.26B20.753,619Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
PBI
Pitney Bowes
2.0343 of 5 stars
$7.20
-0.1%
N/A+126.8%$1.29B$3.27B-4.8010,500Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
ACCO
ACCO Brands
4.9959 of 5 stars
$5.25
+7.1%
$7.00
+33.3%
+3.3%$502.95M$1.83B-2.875,600Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
NL
NL Industries
0.919 of 5 stars
$7.72
+3.1%
$6.00
-22.3%
+65.0%$377.12M$161.30M16.782,820Upcoming Earnings
Dividend Cut
News Coverage
Gap Up
ARC
ARC Document Solutions
3.9743 of 5 stars
$3.37
+0.3%
N/A+17.8%$145.79M$281.20M18.721,900Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
AVY
Avery Dennison
4.7182 of 5 stars
$206.19
-0.4%
$244.96
+18.8%
+18.6%$16.57B$8.36B24.7535,000Dividend Announcement
YMM
Full Truck Alliance
3.8417 of 5 stars
$8.94
-0.1%
$8.50
-4.9%
+37.1%$9.42B$1.19B25.547,585Positive News
STN
Stantec
3.7192 of 5 stars
$81.49
+0.4%
N/A+31.6%$9.26B$6.91B36.3828,000Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Revision
News Coverage

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This page (NYSE:HNI) was last updated on 11/2/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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