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$180.71 -3.26 (-1.77%)
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AVY vs. MSA, HNI, PBI, SCS, TILE, NL, ACCO, KMB, PACK, and DSY

Should you be buying Avery Dennison stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Avery Dennison include MSA Safety (MSA), HNI (HNI), Pitney Bowes (PBI), Steelcase (SCS), Interface (TILE), NL Industries (NL), ACCO Brands (ACCO), Kimberly-Clark (KMB), Ranpak (PACK), and Big Tree Cloud (DSY).

Avery Dennison vs.

MSA Safety (NYSE:MSA) and Avery Dennison (NYSE:AVY) are both industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.

MSA Safety has a beta of 0.96, meaning that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Avery Dennison has a beta of 0.88, meaning that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.

MSA Safety currently has a consensus target price of $191.80, indicating a potential upside of 20.21%. Avery Dennison has a consensus target price of $206.60, indicating a potential upside of 13.35%. Given MSA Safety's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe MSA Safety is more favorable than Avery Dennison.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
MSA Safety
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.83
Avery Dennison
0 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
7 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.58

Avery Dennison has higher revenue and earnings than MSA Safety. Avery Dennison is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MSA Safety, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
MSA Safety$1.82B3.45$284.97M$7.2522.01
Avery Dennison$8.75B1.63$704.90M$8.6821.00

92.5% of MSA Safety shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.2% of Avery Dennison shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of MSA Safety shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Avery Dennison shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Avery Dennison received 133 more outperform votes than MSA Safety when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.97% of users gave MSA Safety an outperform vote while only 57.50% of users gave Avery Dennison an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
MSA SafetyOutperform Votes
300
63.97%
Underperform Votes
169
36.03%
Avery DennisonOutperform Votes
433
57.50%
Underperform Votes
320
42.50%

MSA Safety pays an annual dividend of $2.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Avery Dennison pays an annual dividend of $3.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. MSA Safety pays out 29.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Avery Dennison pays out 43.3% 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. MSA Safety has raised its dividend for 56 consecutive years and Avery Dennison has raised its dividend for 15 consecutive years.

In the previous week, Avery Dennison had 6 more articles in the media than MSA Safety. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Avery Dennison and 12 mentions for MSA Safety. MSA Safety's average media sentiment score of 1.37 beat Avery Dennison's score of 1.21 indicating that MSA Safety is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
MSA Safety
10 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Avery Dennison
16 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

MSA Safety has a net margin of 15.76% compared to Avery Dennison's net margin of 8.05%. Avery Dennison's return on equity of 33.06% beat MSA Safety's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
MSA Safety15.76% 28.64% 13.74%
Avery Dennison 8.05%33.06%9.11%

Summary

MSA Safety beats Avery Dennison on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.

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AVY vs. The Competition

MetricAvery DennisonConverted paper & paperboard products, except containers & box IndustryIndustrials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$14.25B$8.48B$7.68B$19.60B
Dividend Yield1.95%3.10%4.58%3.84%
P/E Ratio20.9013.7024.0834.82
Price / Sales1.630.9891.1835.62
Price / Cash13.809.3326.8917.51
Price / Book6.328.794.004.75
Net Income$704.90M$442.38M$805.86M$1.02B
7 Day Performance0.91%1.36%1.32%0.03%
1 Month Performance7.66%-1.97%12.13%11.37%
1 Year Performance-20.45%-18.40%18.51%4.74%

Avery Dennison Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
AVY
Avery Dennison
4.8298 of 5 stars
$180.71
-1.8%
$206.60
+14.3%
-18.6%$14.13B$8.75B20.7336,000Positive News
MSA
MSA Safety
4.7603 of 5 stars
$161.60
+2.6%
$191.80
+18.7%
-16.9%$6.35B$1.82B22.415,000Positive News
HNI
HNI
4.7838 of 5 stars
$48.89
+2.8%
$63.00
+28.9%
+4.6%$2.28B$2.54B16.927,300
PBI
Pitney Bowes
3.1067 of 5 stars
$9.47
+2.1%
N/A+74.6%$1.73B$2.00B-8.4611,000Gap Up
SCS
Steelcase
4.7573 of 5 stars
$10.83
+3.5%
$17.00
+57.0%
-22.5%$1.24B$3.17B11.2811,800News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Up
TILE
Interface
4.7905 of 5 stars
$20.93
+1.3%
$30.00
+43.3%
+35.9%$1.22B$1.32B14.643,650Positive News
Dividend Announcement
NL
NL Industries
1.4342 of 5 stars
$7.98
-1.1%
$6.00
-24.8%
+8.8%$389.76M$145.94M6.652,820Dividend Announcement
Gap Up
ACCO
ACCO Brands
4.9637 of 5 stars
$3.92
+5.1%
$7.00
+78.6%
-24.4%$353.10M$1.62B-3.706,000
KMB
Kimberly-Clark
4.3886 of 5 stars
$136.77
+2.8%
$145.08
+6.1%
+5.9%$45.38B$19.75B18.1244,000Positive News
PACK
Ranpak
2.3763 of 5 stars
$3.66
+7.8%
$7.00
+91.5%
-44.7%$305.68M$374.80M-15.23880Gap Down
High Trading Volume
DSY
Big Tree Cloud
N/A$1.51
+4.9%
N/AN/A$7.55M$7.32M0.0082Gap Up

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This page (NYSE:AVY) was last updated on 5/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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