ACCO vs. TILE, SCS, PBI, NL, AVY, MSA, HNI, DLX, CENX, and KMT
Should you be buying ACCO Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ACCO Brands include Interface (TILE), Steelcase (SCS), Pitney Bowes (PBI), NL Industries (NL), Avery Dennison (AVY), MSA Safety (MSA), HNI (HNI), Deluxe (DLX), Century Aluminum (CENX), and Kennametal (KMT).
ACCO Brands vs.
ACCO Brands (NYSE:ACCO) and Interface (NASDAQ:TILE) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings and dividends.
ACCO Brands pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.7%. Interface pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. ACCO Brands pays out -15.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Interface pays out 2.8% 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.
In the previous week, Interface had 3 more articles in the media than ACCO Brands. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Interface and 2 mentions for ACCO Brands. Interface's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat ACCO Brands' score of 0.82 indicating that Interface is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
ACCO Brands has a beta of 1.68, suggesting that its stock price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Interface has a beta of 2.1, suggesting that its stock price is 110% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Interface has lower revenue, but higher earnings than ACCO Brands. ACCO Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Interface, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
84.6% of ACCO Brands shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.3% of Interface shares are held by institutional investors. 7.3% of ACCO Brands shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Interface shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Interface has a net margin of 6.49% compared to ACCO Brands' net margin of -10.64%. Interface's return on equity of 19.91% beat ACCO Brands' return on equity.
ACCO Brands currently has a consensus target price of $7.50, indicating a potential upside of 43.10%. Interface has a consensus target price of $22.00, indicating a potential downside of 10.09%. Given ACCO Brands' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe ACCO Brands is more favorable than Interface.
ACCO Brands received 101 more outperform votes than Interface when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.06% of users gave ACCO Brands an outperform vote while only 58.79% of users gave Interface an outperform vote.
Summary
Interface beats ACCO Brands on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:ACCO) was last updated on 1/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
