MSA vs. AVY, HNI, PBI, SCS, TILE, NL, ACCO, STE, ZBH, and ALGN
Should you be buying MSA Safety stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MSA Safety include Avery Dennison (AVY), HNI (HNI), Pitney Bowes (PBI), Steelcase (SCS), Interface (TILE), NL Industries (NL), ACCO Brands (ACCO), STERIS (STE), Zimmer Biomet (ZBH), and Align Technology (ALGN).
MSA Safety vs. Its Competitors
MSA Safety (NYSE:MSA) and Avery Dennison (NYSE:AVY) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk and media sentiment.
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 insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Avery Dennison shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
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.
MSA Safety currently has a consensus price target of $191.80, suggesting a potential upside of 18.44%. Avery Dennison has a consensus price target of $206.60, suggesting a potential upside of 18.46%. Given Avery Dennison's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Avery Dennison is more favorable than MSA Safety.
In the previous week, MSA Safety had 1 more articles in the media than Avery Dennison. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for MSA Safety and 8 mentions for Avery Dennison. Avery Dennison's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat MSA Safety's score of 1.12 indicating that Avery Dennison is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
MSA Safety has a beta of 0.95, suggesting that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Avery Dennison has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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 2.2%. 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.
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.
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 57.43% of users gave Avery Dennison an outperform vote.
Summary
MSA Safety and Avery Dennison tied by winning 11 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NYSE:MSA) was last updated on 6/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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