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Avery Dennison (AVY) Competitors

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$171.06 -0.66 (-0.38%)
As of 03:59 PM Eastern

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.

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

94.2% of Avery Dennison shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.5% of MSA Safety shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Avery Dennison shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of MSA Safety shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Avery Dennison has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MSA Safety has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Avery Dennison pays an annual dividend of $3.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. MSA Safety pays an annual dividend of $2.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Avery Dennison pays out 43.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. MSA Safety pays out 28.3% 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. Avery Dennison has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years and MSA Safety has increased its dividend for 55 consecutive years.

In the previous week, Avery Dennison had 29 more articles in the media than MSA Safety. MarketBeat recorded 50 mentions for Avery Dennison and 21 mentions for MSA Safety. MSA Safety's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Avery Dennison's score of 0.34 indicating that MSA Safety is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Avery Dennison
16 Very Positive mention(s)
4 Positive mention(s)
16 Neutral mention(s)
8 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
MSA Safety
13 Very Positive mention(s)
4 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Avery Dennison received 136 more outperform votes than MSA Safety when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.01% of users gave MSA Safety an outperform vote while only 57.58% of users gave Avery Dennison an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Avery DennisonOutperform Votes
433
57.58%
Underperform Votes
319
42.42%
MSA SafetyOutperform Votes
297
64.01%
Underperform Votes
167
35.99%

Avery Dennison currently has a consensus target price of $209.80, suggesting a potential upside of 22.65%. MSA Safety has a consensus target price of $194.20, suggesting a potential upside of 23.76%. Given MSA Safety's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe MSA Safety is more favorable than Avery Dennison.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Avery Dennison
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.67
MSA Safety
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

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
Avery Dennison$8.75B1.53$704.90M$8.6819.71
MSA Safety$1.81B3.41$284.97M$7.2121.76

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
Avery Dennison8.05% 33.06% 9.11%
MSA Safety 15.76%28.64%13.74%

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$13.43B$7.96B$7.14B$18.97B
Dividend Yield2.03%3.00%3.56%4.03%
P/E Ratio19.6213.2920.8232.71
Price / Sales1.530.9680.9427.84
Price / Cash13.809.3326.9417.53
Price / Book5.938.253.744.47
Net Income$704.90M$442.38M$807.45M$1.02B
7 Day Performance0.48%1.43%3.18%2.26%
1 Month Performance-2.61%-3.51%1.11%-2.86%
1 Year Performance-21.27%-12.04%13.93%5.48%

Avery Dennison Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
AVY
Avery Dennison
4.7728 of 5 stars
$171.06
-0.4%
$209.80
+22.6%
-21.4%$13.43B$8.75B19.6236,000Earnings Report
Dividend Increase
Short Interest ↑
MSA
MSA Safety
4.5796 of 5 stars
$152.75
-0.4%
$194.20
+27.1%
-18.1%$6.00B$1.81B21.195,000Earnings Report
Short Interest ↑
News Coverage
Positive News
HNI
HNI
4.8067 of 5 stars
$42.02
-0.4%
$63.00
+49.9%
-1.2%$1.98B$2.53B14.547,300Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
PBI
Pitney Bowes
3.1996 of 5 stars
$8.55
+0.9%
N/A+107.0%$1.56B$2.03B-7.6311,000Upcoming Earnings
Positive News
SCS
Steelcase
4.8004 of 5 stars
$9.87
-0.2%
$17.00
+72.2%
-18.7%$1.12B$3.17B10.2811,800
TILE
Interface
4.6752 of 5 stars
$18.70
-0.3%
$30.00
+60.4%
+20.5%$1.09B$1.32B13.083,650Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Upgrade
Positive News
NL
NL Industries
0.8691 of 5 stars
$8.42
+0.2%
$6.00
-28.7%
+5.1%$411.30M$145.94M7.022,820Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
ACCO
ACCO Brands
4.8641 of 5 stars
$3.82
-2.1%
$7.00
+83.2%
-20.3%$344.18M$1.67B-3.606,000Upcoming Earnings
Dividend Announcement
Gap Down
KMB
Kimberly-Clark
4.6836 of 5 stars
$130.90
-0.5%
$145.08
+10.8%
-4.0%$43.41B$19.75B17.3444,000Insider Trade
PACK
Ranpak
2.3606 of 5 stars
$4.11
-1.2%
$9.50
+131.1%
-44.2%$343.64M$368.90M-17.13880Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
DSY
Big Tree Cloud
N/A$1.34
-2.3%
N/AN/A$6.68M$7.32M0.0082Short Interest ↑
News Coverage
Gap Down

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