PBI vs. VLRS, RGR, MATW, TPC, YELL, TBI, HTZ, HURN, SXI, and TNC
Should you be buying Pitney Bowes stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pitney Bowes include Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación (VLRS), Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (RGR), Matthews International (MATW), Tutor Perini (TPC), Yellow (YELL), TrueBlue (TBI), Hertz Global (HTZ), Huron Consulting Group (HURN), Standex International (SXI), and Tennant (TNC).
Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI) and Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación (NYSE:VLRS) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and profitability.
In the previous week, Pitney Bowes had 17 more articles in the media than Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Pitney Bowes and 5 mentions for Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación. Pitney Bowes' average media sentiment score of 0.22 beat Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación's score of 0.19 indicating that Pitney Bowes is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Pitney Bowes has a beta of 2.14, suggesting that its share price is 114% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación has a beta of 2.49, suggesting that its share price is 149% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación received 111 more outperform votes than Pitney Bowes when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.49% of users gave Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación an outperform vote while only 54.39% of users gave Pitney Bowes an outperform vote.
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Pitney Bowes. Pitney Bowes is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
67.9% of Pitney Bowes shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.3% of Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.3% of Pitney Bowes shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación has a consensus target price of $14.02, suggesting a potential upside of 66.47%. Given Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación is more favorable than Pitney Bowes.
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación has a net margin of 3.40% compared to Pitney Bowes' net margin of -11.81%. Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación's return on equity of 54.46% beat Pitney Bowes' return on equity.
Summary
Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación beats Pitney Bowes on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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