ACCO vs. NL, AVY, MSA, HNI, PBI, SCS, TILE, EBF, GIC, and NSSC
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 NAPCO Security Technologies (NSSC).
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 business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.
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 insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of NL Industries shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Acco Brands has a beta of 1.44, meaning that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NL Industries has a beta of 0.29, meaning that its share price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Acco Brands presently has a consensus price target of $6.00, suggesting a potential upside of 49.66%. NL Industries has a consensus price target of $6.00, suggesting a potential downside of 0.33%. Given Acco Brands' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Acco Brands is more favorable than NL Industries.
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.
In the previous week, Acco Brands had 3 more articles in the media than NL Industries. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Acco Brands and 0 mentions for NL Industries. Acco Brands' average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat NL Industries' score of 0.00 indicating that Acco Brands is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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 6.0%. 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 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.
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
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This page (NYSE:ACCO) was last updated on 9/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
