AVY vs. MSA, HNI, SCS, PBI, TILE, ACCO, NL, ARC, KMB, and PACK
Should you be buying Avery Dennison stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Avery Dennison include MSA Safety (MSA), HNI (HNI), Steelcase (SCS), Pitney Bowes (PBI), Interface (TILE), ACCO Brands (ACCO), NL Industries (NL), ARC Document Solutions (ARC), Kimberly-Clark (KMB), and Ranpak (PACK).
MSA Safety (NYSE:MSA) and Avery Dennison (NYSE:AVY) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership and valuation.
MSA Safety pays an annual dividend of $2.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Avery Dennison pays an annual dividend of $3.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. MSA Safety pays out 30.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Avery Dennison pays out 51.4% 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 increased its dividend for 55 consecutive years and Avery Dennison has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years.
MSA Safety presently has a consensus price target of $192.50, suggesting a potential upside of 1.58%. Avery Dennison has a consensus price target of $239.96, suggesting a potential upside of 12.27%. Given MSA Safety's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Avery Dennison is more favorable than MSA Safety.
Avery Dennison received 123 more outperform votes than MSA Safety when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.19% of users gave MSA Safety an outperform vote while only 57.44% of users gave Avery Dennison an outperform vote.
92.5% of MSA Safety shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.2% of Avery Dennison shares are held by institutional investors. 6.2% of MSA Safety shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Avery Dennison shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
MSA Safety has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Avery Dennison has a beta of 0.88, meaning that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Avery Dennison had 19 more articles in the media than MSA Safety. MarketBeat recorded 41 mentions for Avery Dennison and 22 mentions for MSA Safety. Avery Dennison's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat MSA Safety's score of 0.49 indicating that MSA Safety is being referred to more favorably in the media.
MSA Safety has a net margin of 14.97% compared to MSA Safety's net margin of 7.34%. MSA Safety's return on equity of 33.44% beat Avery Dennison's return on equity.
Avery Dennison has higher revenue and earnings than MSA Safety. MSA Safety is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Avery Dennison, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
MSA Safety and Avery Dennison tied by winning 11 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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