NL vs. SCS, TILE, ACCO, AVY, MSA, HNI, PBI, TROX, KRO, and LXU
Should you be buying NL Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NL Industries include Steelcase (SCS), Interface (TILE), ACCO Brands (ACCO), Avery Dennison (AVY), MSA Safety (MSA), HNI (HNI), Pitney Bowes (PBI), Tronox (TROX), Kronos Worldwide (KRO), and LSB Industries (LXU).
NL Industries vs. Its Competitors
NL Industries (NYSE:NL) and Steelcase (NYSE:SCS) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation and community ranking.
In the previous week, NL Industries had 1 more articles in the media than Steelcase. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for NL Industries and 1 mentions for Steelcase. Steelcase's average media sentiment score of 1.76 beat NL Industries' score of 0.00 indicating that Steelcase is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Steelcase has higher revenue and earnings than NL Industries. NL Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Steelcase, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Steelcase received 121 more outperform votes than NL Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.21% of users gave Steelcase an outperform vote while only 59.81% of users gave NL Industries an outperform vote.
NL Industries has a net margin of 38.69% compared to Steelcase's net margin of 3.63%. NL Industries' return on equity of 14.74% beat Steelcase's return on equity.
NL Industries currently has a consensus target price of $6.00, indicating a potential downside of 11.40%. Steelcase has a consensus target price of $17.00, indicating a potential upside of 67.65%. Given Steelcase's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Steelcase is more favorable than NL Industries.
NL Industries has a beta of 0.32, meaning that its share price is 68% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Steelcase has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
10.7% of NL Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.4% of Steelcase shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of NL Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.8% of Steelcase shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
NL Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. Steelcase pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. NL Industries pays out 28.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Steelcase pays out 39.6% 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. NL Industries has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. NL Industries is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Steelcase beats NL Industries on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (NYSE:NL) was last updated on 6/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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