PBI vs. MSA, HNI, TILE, SCS, NL, ACCO, AVY, OS, CWAN, and S
Should you be buying Pitney Bowes stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pitney Bowes include MSA Safety (MSA), HNI (HNI), Interface (TILE), Steelcase (SCS), NL Industries (NL), ACCO Brands (ACCO), Avery Dennison (AVY), Onestream (OS), Clearwater Analytics (CWAN), and SentinelOne (S).
Pitney Bowes vs.
Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI) and MSA Safety (NYSE:MSA) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, community ranking, media sentiment and profitability.
MSA Safety received 38 more outperform votes than Pitney Bowes when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.97% of users gave MSA Safety an outperform vote while only 55.04% of users gave Pitney Bowes an outperform vote.
MSA Safety has a consensus target price of $191.80, indicating a potential upside of 22.24%. Given MSA Safety's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe MSA Safety is more favorable than Pitney Bowes.
Pitney Bowes has a beta of 1.47, indicating that its share price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MSA Safety has a beta of 0.96, indicating that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Pitney Bowes had 3 more articles in the media than MSA Safety. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Pitney Bowes and 9 mentions for MSA Safety. MSA Safety's average media sentiment score of 1.62 beat Pitney Bowes' score of 0.78 indicating that MSA Safety is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Pitney Bowes pays an annual dividend of $0.28 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 1.4%. Pitney Bowes pays out -30.8% 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. Pitney Bowes has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and MSA Safety has raised its dividend for 56 consecutive years. Pitney Bowes is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
67.9% of Pitney Bowes shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.5% of MSA Safety shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.0% of Pitney Bowes shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of MSA Safety shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
MSA Safety has a net margin of 15.76% compared to Pitney Bowes' net margin of -7.71%. MSA Safety's return on equity of 28.64% beat Pitney Bowes' return on equity.
MSA Safety has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Pitney Bowes. Pitney Bowes is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MSA Safety, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
MSA Safety beats Pitney Bowes on 16 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:PBI) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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