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Pitney Bowes (PBI) Competitors

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$7.23 +0.08 (+1.12%)
(As of 12/20/2024 05:16 PM ET)

PBI vs. HNI, TILE, SCS, ACCO, NL, ARC, AVY, MSA, CRUS, and NVMI

Should you be buying Pitney Bowes stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pitney Bowes include HNI (HNI), Interface (TILE), Steelcase (SCS), ACCO Brands (ACCO), NL Industries (NL), ARC Document Solutions (ARC), Avery Dennison (AVY), MSA Safety (MSA), Cirrus Logic (CRUS), and Nova (NVMI).

Pitney Bowes vs.

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

In the previous week, HNI had 3 more articles in the media than Pitney Bowes. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for HNI and 5 mentions for Pitney Bowes. Pitney Bowes' average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat HNI's score of 0.66 indicating that Pitney Bowes 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)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Pitney Bowes
2 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

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, large money managers and endowments believe a company 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%

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 pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Pitney Bowes pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. 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.

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$2.56B0.96$49.20M$2.5820.01
Pitney Bowes$3.22B0.41-$385.63M-$2.18-3.32

HNI presently has a consensus target price of $63.00, indicating a potential upside of 22.02%. 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 has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its share price is 12% 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$1.31B$1.31B$25.96B$19.18B
Dividend Yield2.61%2.61%2.78%3.61%
P/E Ratio-3.32N/A238.1141.30
Price / Sales0.410.413,339.7317.58
Price / Cash2.622.6235.6921.28
Price / Book-3.46N/A8.125.32
Net Income-$385.63M-$385.63M$681.16M$989.88M
7 Day Performance-6.23%-6.23%0.41%-3.54%
1 Month Performance-5.98%-5.98%7.01%-3.68%
1 Year Performance76.56%76.56%23.11%12.14%

Pitney Bowes Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PBI
Pitney Bowes
2.8994 of 5 stars
$7.23
+1.1%
N/A+81.9%$1.31B$3.22B-3.3210,500Gap Down
High Trading Volume
HNI
HNI
4.8716 of 5 stars
$54.39
+1.2%
$63.00
+15.8%
+22.8%$2.60B$2.43B20.848,200
TILE
Interface
3.8203 of 5 stars
$26.26
+0.5%
$22.00
-16.2%
+100.1%$1.53B$1.31B18.273,619
SCS
Steelcase
4.9225 of 5 stars
$13.27
+2.0%
$17.00
+28.1%
-16.7%$1.51B$3.16B12.2711,300Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
Positive News
ACCO
ACCO Brands
4.8679 of 5 stars
$5.84
-0.8%
$7.50
+28.4%
-6.2%$542.43M$1.71B-3.095,600Analyst Downgrade
News Coverage
NL
NL Industries
1.5436 of 5 stars
$8.58
+3.6%
$6.00
-30.1%
+46.9%$419.12M$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
4.9055 of 5 stars
$193.94
-0.6%
$244.96
+26.3%
-6.5%$15.58B$8.68B23.4335,000
MSA
MSA Safety
4.735 of 5 stars
$175.05
+0.4%
$205.00
+17.1%
+1.1%$6.88B$1.80B25.255,100Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
Positive News
CRUS
Cirrus Logic
4.4766 of 5 stars
$105.47
-1.2%
$132.50
+25.6%
+22.7%$5.60B$1.91B18.091,625Positive News
NVMI
Nova
3.0554 of 5 stars
$191.19
+1.5%
$227.80
+19.1%
+47.9%$5.55B$611.85M35.423,606

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