NL vs. PBI, SCS, TILE, ACCO, AVY, MSA, HNI, TROX, KRO, and VHI
Should you be buying NL Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NL Industries include Pitney Bowes (PBI), Steelcase (SCS), Interface (TILE), ACCO Brands (ACCO), Avery Dennison (AVY), MSA Safety (MSA), HNI (HNI), Tronox (TROX), Kronos Worldwide (KRO), and Valhi (VHI).
NL Industries vs.
Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI) and NL Industries (NYSE:NL) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation and dividends.
Pitney Bowes pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. NL Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Pitney Bowes pays out -21.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. NL Industries pays out 26.1% 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.
In the previous week, Pitney Bowes had 2 more articles in the media than NL Industries. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Pitney Bowes and 2 mentions for NL Industries. Pitney Bowes' average media sentiment score of 1.53 beat NL Industries' score of 0.00 indicating that Pitney Bowes is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Pitney Bowes has a beta of 1.89, indicating that its stock price is 89% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NL Industries has a beta of 0.41, indicating that its stock price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Pitney Bowes received 69 more outperform votes than NL Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.87% of users gave NL Industries an outperform vote while only 54.97% of users gave Pitney Bowes an outperform vote.
67.9% of Pitney Bowes shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.7% of NL Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.0% of Pitney Bowes shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of NL Industries shares are owned 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.
NL Industries has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Pitney Bowes. Pitney Bowes is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NL Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
NL Industries has a net margin of 38.69% compared to Pitney Bowes' net margin of -7.71%. NL Industries' return on equity of 14.74% beat Pitney Bowes' return on equity.
NL Industries has a consensus target price of $6.00, indicating a potential downside of 22.13%. Given NL Industries' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe NL Industries is more favorable than Pitney Bowes.
Summary
NL Industries beats Pitney Bowes on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:NL) was last updated on 4/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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