MSA vs. AVY, HNI, SCS, PBI, TILE, ACCO, NL, ARC, STE, and ZBH
Should you be buying MSA Safety stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MSA Safety include Avery Dennison (AVY), HNI (HNI), Steelcase (SCS), Pitney Bowes (PBI), Interface (TILE), ACCO Brands (ACCO), NL Industries (NL), ARC Document Solutions (ARC), STERIS (STE), and Zimmer Biomet (ZBH).
Avery Dennison (NYSE:AVY) and MSA Safety (NYSE:MSA) are both industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, valuation and risk.
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.
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.
Avery Dennison currently has a consensus target price of $239.96, indicating a potential upside of 12.27%. MSA Safety has a consensus target price of $192.50, indicating a potential upside of 1.58%. Given MSA Safety's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Avery Dennison is more favorable than MSA Safety.
Avery Dennison has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MSA Safety has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
94.2% of Avery Dennison shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.5% of MSA Safety shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Avery Dennison shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.2% of MSA Safety shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
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 pays an annual dividend of $3.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. MSA Safety pays an annual dividend of $2.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Avery Dennison pays out 51.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. MSA Safety pays out 30.2% 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. Avery Dennison has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years and MSA Safety has raised its dividend for 55 consecutive years.
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 news media.
Summary
Avery Dennison and MSA Safety tied by winning 11 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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