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Pitney Bowes (PBI) Competitors

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$7.52 -0.25 (-3.22%)
(As of 11/20/2024 ET)

PBI vs. HNI, SCS, TILE, ACCO, NL, ARC, AVY, MSA, RMBS, and VRNS

Should you be buying Pitney Bowes stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pitney Bowes include HNI (HNI), Steelcase (SCS), Interface (TILE), ACCO Brands (ACCO), NL Industries (NL), ARC Document Solutions (ARC), Avery Dennison (AVY), MSA Safety (MSA), Rambus (RMBS), and Varonis Systems (VRNS).

Pitney Bowes vs.

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

HNI currently has a consensus price target of $63.00, suggesting a potential upside of 13.92%. Given HNI's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe HNI is more favorable than Pitney Bowes.

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
Pitney Bowes
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

HNI pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Pitney Bowes pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. HNI pays out 51.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Pitney Bowes pays out -9.2% 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. HNI has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years. Pitney Bowes is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

75.3% of HNI shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.9% of Pitney Bowes shares are held by institutional investors. 3.4% of HNI shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.3% of Pitney Bowes shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

HNI has a net margin of 4.83% compared to Pitney Bowes' net margin of -13.02%. HNI's return on equity of 19.29% beat Pitney Bowes' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
HNI4.83% 19.29% 7.94%
Pitney Bowes -13.02%-12.85%1.36%

In the previous week, Pitney Bowes had 1 more articles in the media than HNI. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Pitney Bowes and 2 mentions for HNI. HNI's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Pitney Bowes' score of 0.81 indicating that HNI is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
HNI
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Pitney Bowes
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
HNI$2.43B1.09$49.20M$2.5821.43
Pitney Bowes$3.22B0.42-$385.63M-$2.18-3.45

Pitney Bowes received 11 more outperform votes than HNI when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.58% of users gave HNI an outperform vote while only 54.78% of users gave Pitney Bowes an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
HNIOutperform Votes
247
57.58%
Underperform Votes
182
42.42%
Pitney BowesOutperform Votes
258
54.78%
Underperform Votes
213
45.22%

HNI has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pitney Bowes has a beta of 1.97, indicating that its share price is 97% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

HNI beats Pitney Bowes on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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PBI vs. The Competition

MetricPitney BowesOffice machines IndustryComputer SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$1.41B$1.37B$24.07B$19.87B
Dividend Yield2.74%2.76%2.79%3.53%
P/E Ratio-3.45N/A258.4042.94
Price / Sales0.420.423,506.6818.99
Price / Cash2.472.4732.8917.86
Price / Book-3.60N/A7.415.52
Net Income-$385.63M-$385.63M$667.83M$986.45M
7 Day Performance3.37%3.37%0.21%0.45%
1 Month Performance7.05%7.05%0.76%1.05%
1 Year Performance93.69%93.69%18.79%24.67%

Pitney Bowes Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PBI
Pitney Bowes
1.7743 of 5 stars
$7.52
-3.2%
N/A+89.3%$1.41B$3.27B-3.4510,500Ex-Dividend
HNI
HNI
4.8056 of 5 stars
$55.30
+0.9%
$63.00
+13.9%
+40.5%$2.62B$2.43B21.438,200Ex-Dividend
SCS
Steelcase
4.9062 of 5 stars
$13.06
-0.2%
$17.00
+30.2%
+7.0%$1.49B$3.16B12.3211,300Positive News
TILE
Interface
3.8382 of 5 stars
$25.47
+2.1%
$20.00
-21.5%
+151.2%$1.45B$1.26B17.813,619Dividend Announcement
ACCO
ACCO Brands
4.8467 of 5 stars
$5.65
-1.2%
$7.00
+24.0%
+5.4%$524.31M$1.83B-2.995,600Positive News
NL
NL Industries
1.4623 of 5 stars
$7.93
+2.5%
$6.00
-24.3%
+55.5%$378.08M$161.30M6.612,820Positive News
ARC
ARC Document Solutions
3.8887 of 5 stars
$3.40
flat
N/A+19.5%$146.87M$281.20M30.871,900Analyst Forecast
Positive News
AVY
Avery Dennison
4.8294 of 5 stars
$197.64
+0.3%
$244.96
+23.9%
+4.2%$15.88B$8.36B23.7335,000
MSA
MSA Safety
4.6493 of 5 stars
$171.96
+2.3%
$207.50
+20.7%
+2.5%$6.61B$1.79B24.855,100Analyst Revision
Positive News
RMBS
Rambus
4.1793 of 5 stars
$52.95
+1.3%
$71.60
+35.2%
-23.9%$5.57B$461.12M32.89760
VRNS
Varonis Systems
4.039 of 5 stars
$49.97
+0.9%
$59.67
+19.4%
+27.4%$5.57B$499.16M0.002,233Positive News

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This page (NYSE:PBI) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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