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$3.64 +0.02 (+0.55%)
Closing price 05/22/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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ACCO vs. SCS, TILE, NL, AVY, MSA, HNI, PBI, DLX, DXPE, and KALU

Should you be buying ACCO Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ACCO Brands include Steelcase (SCS), Interface (TILE), NL Industries (NL), Avery Dennison (AVY), MSA Safety (MSA), HNI (HNI), Pitney Bowes (PBI), Deluxe (DLX), DXP Enterprises (DXPE), and Kaiser Aluminum (KALU).

ACCO Brands vs.

ACCO Brands (NYSE:ACCO) and Steelcase (NYSE:SCS) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, dividends, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability and earnings.

In the previous week, Steelcase had 1 more articles in the media than ACCO Brands. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Steelcase and 4 mentions for ACCO Brands. Steelcase's average media sentiment score of 1.77 beat ACCO Brands' score of 0.77 indicating that Steelcase is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
ACCO Brands
1 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Steelcase
5 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

ACCO Brands presently has a consensus price target of $7.00, indicating a potential upside of 92.31%. Steelcase has a consensus price target of $17.00, indicating a potential upside of 67.16%. Given ACCO Brands' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe ACCO Brands is more favorable than Steelcase.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
ACCO Brands
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Steelcase
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.67

Steelcase has higher revenue and earnings than ACCO Brands. ACCO Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Steelcase, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
ACCO Brands$1.62B0.20-$101.60M-$1.13-3.22
Steelcase$3.17B0.37$81.10M$1.0110.07

84.6% of ACCO Brands shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.4% of Steelcase shares are held by institutional investors. 8.1% of ACCO Brands shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.0% of Steelcase shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Steelcase has a net margin of 3.63% compared to ACCO Brands' net margin of -6.10%. ACCO Brands' return on equity of 14.96% beat Steelcase's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
ACCO Brands-6.10% 14.96% 4.07%
Steelcase 3.63%14.20%5.75%

ACCO Brands has a beta of 1.36, meaning that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Steelcase has a beta of 1.15, meaning that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.

ACCO Brands pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.2%. Steelcase pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. ACCO Brands pays out -26.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Steelcase pays out 39.6% 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. ACCO Brands is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

ACCO Brands received 103 more outperform votes than Steelcase when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.21% of users gave Steelcase an outperform vote while only 60.03% of users gave ACCO Brands an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
ACCO BrandsOutperform Votes
416
60.03%
Underperform Votes
277
39.97%
SteelcaseOutperform Votes
313
65.21%
Underperform Votes
167
34.79%

Summary

Steelcase beats ACCO Brands on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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ACCO vs. The Competition

MetricACCO BrandsBlankbooks, looseleaf binders, & bookbinding & related work IndustryIndustrials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$327.96M$476.04M$7.63B$19.30B
Dividend Yield7.94%7.93%4.58%3.83%
P/E Ratio-3.4311.8223.1434.53
Price / Sales0.200.2590.5334.83
Price / Cash2.342.4726.9417.51
Price / Book0.440.723.974.69
Net Income-$101.60M-$24.40M$807.24M$1.02B
7 Day Performance-6.91%-9.89%0.77%-1.74%
1 Month Performance-3.83%-4.62%11.16%7.50%
1 Year Performance-27.63%-32.84%19.74%4.15%

ACCO Brands Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ACCO
ACCO Brands
4.9628 of 5 stars
$3.64
+0.6%
$7.00
+92.3%
-27.6%$327.96M$1.62B-3.436,000
SCS
Steelcase
4.7418 of 5 stars
$10.83
+3.5%
$17.00
+57.0%
-23.1%$1.24B$3.17B11.2811,800Positive News
TILE
Interface
4.7669 of 5 stars
$20.93
+1.3%
$30.00
+43.3%
+28.6%$1.22B$1.32B14.643,650Positive News
NL
NL Industries
1.0422 of 5 stars
$7.98
-1.1%
$6.00
-24.8%
+8.3%$389.76M$145.94M6.652,820
AVY
Avery Dennison
4.8415 of 5 stars
$183.60
+6.6%
$206.60
+12.5%
-21.3%$14.35B$8.75B21.0536,000Positive News
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High Trading Volume
MSA
MSA Safety
4.7461 of 5 stars
$161.60
+2.6%
$191.80
+18.7%
-16.5%$6.35B$1.82B22.415,000Positive News
HNI
HNI
4.8025 of 5 stars
$48.89
+2.8%
$63.00
+28.9%
+3.5%$2.28B$2.54B16.927,300
PBI
Pitney Bowes
2.8167 of 5 stars
$9.47
+2.1%
N/A+96.7%$1.73B$2.00B-8.4611,000Gap Up
DLX
Deluxe
4.9453 of 5 stars
$16.20
+2.9%
$29.00
+79.0%
-38.1%$724.79M$2.12B13.735,860Positive News
DXPE
DXP Enterprises
3.6986 of 5 stars
$87.18
+2.9%
$95.00
+9.0%
+63.9%$1.37B$1.87B22.472,490Positive News
KALU
Kaiser Aluminum
2.5824 of 5 stars
$71.59
+5.8%
$69.00
-3.6%
-27.1%$1.16B$3.06B24.944,000Positive News

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This page (NYSE:ACCO) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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