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ACCO vs. NL, AVY, MSA, HNI, PBI, SCS, TILE, EBF, GIC, and IPX

Should you be buying Acco Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Acco Brands include NL Industries (NL), Avery Dennison (AVY), MSA Safety Incorporporated (MSA), HNI (HNI), Pitney Bowes (PBI), Steelcase (SCS), Interface (TILE), Ennis (EBF), Global Industrial (GIC), and IperionX (IPX).

Acco Brands vs. Its Competitors

Acco Brands (NYSE:ACCO) and NL Industries (NYSE:NL) are both small-cap office services & supplies companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk and institutional ownership.

Acco Brands pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.5%. NL Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. Acco Brands pays out 63.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. NL Industries pays out 32.7% 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. NL Industries has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years.

NL Industries has a net margin of 35.06% compared to Acco Brands' net margin of 2.90%. Acco Brands' return on equity of 13.60% beat NL Industries' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Acco Brands2.90% 13.60% 3.63%
NL Industries 35.06%12.93%9.69%

Acco Brands has a beta of 1.39, indicating that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NL Industries has a beta of 0.25, indicating that its share price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Acco Brands presently has a consensus price target of $6.00, indicating a potential upside of 49.81%. NL Industries has a consensus price target of $6.00, indicating a potential downside of 11.35%. Given Acco Brands' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Acco Brands is more favorable than NL Industries.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Acco Brands
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50
NL Industries
1 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.00

84.6% of Acco Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.7% of NL Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.1% of Acco Brands shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of NL Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

NL Industries has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Acco Brands. NL Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Acco Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Acco Brands$1.58B0.23-$101.60M$0.478.52
NL Industries$145.90M2.27$67.23M$1.106.15

In the previous week, Acco Brands had 11 more articles in the media than NL Industries. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Acco Brands and 0 mentions for NL Industries. Acco Brands' average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat NL Industries' score of 0.00 indicating that Acco Brands is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Acco Brands Positive
NL Industries Neutral

Summary

Acco Brands beats NL Industries on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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ACCO vs. The Competition

MetricAcco BrandsOFFICE SPPL&FRM IndustryIndustrials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$360.98M$421.11M$7.78B$21.16B
Dividend Yield7.71%6.60%4.56%3.59%
P/E Ratio8.5210.4026.1429.15
Price / Sales0.230.73102.0854.92
Price / Cash2.065.1628.3723.84
Price / Book0.571.094.095.45
Net Income-$101.60M-$30.69M$796.69M$992.10M
7 Day Performance2.69%3.00%0.60%2.62%
1 Month Performance1.78%2.50%1.19%2.51%
1 Year Performance-23.42%-20.87%27.76%12.94%

Acco Brands Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ACCO
Acco Brands
4.9843 of 5 stars
$4.01
+2.2%
$6.00
+49.8%
-26.1%$360.98M$1.58B8.525,000
NL
NL Industries
1.0079 of 5 stars
$6.35
+4.2%
$6.00
-5.4%
-2.2%$309.94M$152.72M5.772,820
AVY
Avery Dennison
4.8963 of 5 stars
$171.86
+0.6%
$197.60
+15.0%
-18.1%$13.40B$8.76B19.2935,000News Coverage
Positive News
MSA
MSA Safety Incorporporated
4.2755 of 5 stars
$169.32
-2.8%
$189.20
+11.7%
-4.4%$6.63B$1.83B24.155,200Positive News
HNI
HNI
4.9871 of 5 stars
$43.13
-0.5%
$75.00
+73.9%
-17.2%$1.98B$2.53B14.007,700Short Interest ↓
PBI
Pitney Bowes
3.3963 of 5 stars
$11.11
-0.6%
N/A+55.5%$1.91B$1.97B-18.527,200Positive News
SCS
Steelcase
3.9222 of 5 stars
$15.96
+0.5%
$16.00
+0.3%
+18.1%$1.83B$3.22B15.4911,300Positive News
High Trading Volume
TILE
Interface
4.8054 of 5 stars
$24.91
+0.2%
$32.00
+28.5%
+48.9%$1.46B$1.35B15.383,636News Coverage
Positive News
Insider Trade
EBF
Ennis
2.9488 of 5 stars
$18.03
-0.7%
N/A-21.4%$465.20M$394.62M11.861,856
GIC
Global Industrial
2.5672 of 5 stars
$34.12
-1.5%
N/A+6.9%$1.31B$1.32B19.951,845
IPX
IperionX
2.0848 of 5 stars
$38.62
+2.6%
$28.00
-27.5%
+169.4%$1.24BN/A0.00N/ANews Coverage
Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↓
Analyst Revision

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This page (NYSE:ACCO) was last updated on 8/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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