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Pitney Bowes (PBI) Competitors

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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.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Pitney BowesOutperform Votes
262
55.04%
Underperform Votes
214
44.96%
MSA SafetyOutperform Votes
300
63.97%
Underperform Votes
169
36.03%

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.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Pitney Bowes
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
MSA Safety
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.83

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.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Pitney Bowes
5 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
6 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
MSA Safety
7 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Pitney Bowes-7.71% -20.95% 2.64%
MSA Safety 15.76%28.64%13.74%

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Pitney Bowes$2.00B0.90-$203.60M-$0.91-10.76
MSA Safety$1.82B3.40$284.97M$7.2521.64

Summary

MSA Safety beats Pitney Bowes on 16 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.

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PBI vs. The Competition

MetricPitney BowesOffice machines IndustryComputer SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$1.79B$1.79B$24.77B$19.16B
Dividend Yield3.03%3.03%2.90%3.83%
P/E Ratio-8.75N/A44.0734.20
Price / Sales0.900.892,122.6334.68
Price / Cash3.643.6434.7817.51
Price / Book-3.08N/A6.644.66
Net Income-$203.60M-$203.60M$739.31M$1.02B
7 Day Performance3.60%3.33%-1.64%-2.99%
1 Month Performance17.87%17.57%10.63%5.64%
1 Year Performance96.29%95.79%52,750.78%5.21%

Pitney Bowes Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PBI
Pitney Bowes
2.8195 of 5 stars
$9.80
-1.7%
N/A+96.7%$1.79B$2.00B-8.7511,000Gap Down
MSA
MSA Safety
4.7479 of 5 stars
$159.50
+0.0%
$191.80
+20.3%
-16.5%$6.27B$1.82B22.125,000Positive News
HNI
HNI
4.805 of 5 stars
$47.76
-0.3%
$71.00
+48.7%
+3.5%$2.22B$2.54B16.537,300
TILE
Interface
4.7602 of 5 stars
$20.76
+1.1%
$30.00
+44.5%
+28.6%$1.21B$1.32B14.523,650Positive News
SCS
Steelcase
4.7913 of 5 stars
$10.36
-1.3%
$17.00
+64.1%
-23.1%$1.19B$3.17B10.7911,800Positive News
NL
NL Industries
1.0422 of 5 stars
$7.91
+0.5%
$6.00
-24.1%
+8.3%$386.39M$148.24M6.592,820
ACCO
ACCO Brands
4.9619 of 5 stars
$3.79
-1.8%
$7.00
+84.7%
-27.6%$341.48M$1.62B-3.586,000Gap Down
AVY
Avery Dennison
4.8378 of 5 stars
$183.57
+0.2%
$206.60
+12.5%
-21.3%$14.35B$8.75B21.0536,000Positive News
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OS
Onestream
3.117 of 5 stars
$28.19
-0.3%
$32.19
+14.2%
N/A$6.73B$515.43M0.001,300Positive News
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
Analyst Revision
Gap Down
CWAN
Clearwater Analytics
4.2154 of 5 stars
$23.51
-1.3%
$32.40
+37.8%
+16.2%$6.66B$475.95M14.161,730Positive News
Insider Trade
S
SentinelOne
3.7334 of 5 stars
$19.96
-1.2%
$26.13
+30.9%
-10.7%$6.58B$821.46M-21.231,200Positive News
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This page (NYSE:PBI) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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