ACCO vs. DMRC, HDSN, MTW, EBF, ITRN, KRT, ALTG, CIX, EAF, and BOOM
Should you be buying ACCO Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ACCO Brands include Digimarc (DMRC), Hudson Technologies (HDSN), Manitowoc (MTW), Ennis (EBF), Ituran Location and Control (ITRN), Karat Packaging (KRT), Alta Equipment Group (ALTG), CompX International (CIX), GrafTech International (EAF), and DMC Global (BOOM). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
ACCO Brands (NYSE:ACCO) and Digimarc (NASDAQ:DMRC) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, risk, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends and valuation.
In the previous week, ACCO Brands and ACCO Brands both had 1 articles in the media. Digimarc's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat ACCO Brands' score of 0.86 indicating that Digimarc is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
84.6% of ACCO Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.9% of Digimarc shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.3% of ACCO Brands shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 20.5% of Digimarc shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
ACCO Brands has a net margin of -1.19% compared to Digimarc's net margin of -131.87%. ACCO Brands' return on equity of 12.94% beat Digimarc's return on equity.
ACCO Brands has higher revenue and earnings than Digimarc. ACCO Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Digimarc, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ACCO Brands presently has a consensus price target of $7.50, suggesting a potential upside of 54.48%. Digimarc has a consensus price target of $25.00, suggesting a potential upside of 8.74%. Given ACCO Brands' higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe ACCO Brands is more favorable than Digimarc.
ACCO Brands has a beta of 1.64, meaning that its share price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Digimarc has a beta of 1.1, meaning that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
ACCO Brands received 82 more outperform votes than Digimarc when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.01% of users gave Digimarc an outperform vote while only 59.88% of users gave ACCO Brands an outperform vote.
Summary
ACCO Brands beats Digimarc on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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