PBI vs. BELFA, DGII, RDWR, BLDP, KIND, SLP, IMOS, TTGT, QNST, and TUYA
Should you be buying Pitney Bowes stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pitney Bowes include Bel Fuse (BELFA), Digi International (DGII), Radware (RDWR), Ballard Power Systems (BLDP), Nextdoor (KIND), Simulations Plus (SLP), ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES (IMOS), TechTarget (TTGT), QuinStreet (QNST), and Tuya (TUYA). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Bel Fuse (NASDAQ:BELFA) and Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, valuation, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Bel Fuse pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Pitney Bowes pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Bel Fuse pays out 4.3% 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. Pitney Bowes is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
6.0% of Bel Fuse shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.9% of Pitney Bowes shares are held by institutional investors. 5.1% of Bel Fuse shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 14.3% of Pitney Bowes shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Bel Fuse has a beta of 1.42, indicating that its share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pitney Bowes has a beta of 2.14, indicating that its share price is 114% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Bel Fuse has a net margin of 12.62% compared to Bel Fuse's net margin of -11.67%. Pitney Bowes' return on equity of 24.29% beat Bel Fuse's return on equity.
Bel Fuse has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Pitney Bowes. Pitney Bowes is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bel Fuse, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Pitney Bowes received 117 more outperform votes than Bel Fuse when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.14% of users gave Bel Fuse an outperform vote while only 54.58% of users gave Pitney Bowes an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Pitney Bowes had 6 more articles in the media than Bel Fuse. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Pitney Bowes and 3 mentions for Bel Fuse. Pitney Bowes' average media sentiment score of 1.79 beat Bel Fuse's score of 0.26 indicating that Bel Fuse is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Bel Fuse beats Pitney Bowes on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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