HNI vs. MSA, PBI, SCS, TILE, NL, ACCO, AVY, KD, WPP, and FOUR
Should you be buying HNI stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HNI include MSA Safety (MSA), Pitney Bowes (PBI), Steelcase (SCS), Interface (TILE), NL Industries (NL), ACCO Brands (ACCO), Avery Dennison (AVY), Kyndryl (KD), WPP (WPP), and Shift4 Payments (FOUR).
HNI vs.
HNI (NYSE:HNI) and MSA Safety (NYSE:MSA) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking and profitability.
In the previous week, MSA Safety had 2 more articles in the media than HNI. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for MSA Safety and 12 mentions for HNI. MSA Safety's average media sentiment score of 1.37 beat HNI's score of 0.77 indicating that MSA Safety is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
HNI has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MSA Safety has a beta of 0.96, meaning that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
MSA Safety has a net margin of 15.76% compared to HNI's net margin of 5.52%. MSA Safety's return on equity of 28.64% beat HNI's return on equity.
MSA Safety has lower revenue, but higher earnings than HNI. HNI is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MSA Safety, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
75.3% of HNI shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.5% of MSA Safety shares are held by institutional investors. 3.4% of HNI shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of MSA Safety shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
HNI pays an annual dividend of $1.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. MSA Safety pays an annual dividend of $2.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. HNI pays out 48.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. MSA Safety pays out 29.2% 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. HNI has raised its dividend for 15 consecutive years and MSA Safety has raised its dividend for 56 consecutive years.
HNI currently has a consensus target price of $71.00, indicating a potential upside of 50.33%. MSA Safety has a consensus target price of $191.80, indicating a potential upside of 20.52%. Given HNI's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe HNI is more favorable than MSA Safety.
MSA Safety received 50 more outperform votes than HNI when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.97% of users gave MSA Safety an outperform vote while only 57.60% of users gave HNI an outperform vote.
Summary
MSA Safety beats HNI on 18 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:HNI) was last updated on 5/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
