Pitney Bowes (PBI) Competitors

MSA Safety (NYSE:MSA) and Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI) are both industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.

Do analysts prefer MSA or PBI?

MSA Safety presently has a consensus target price of $193.20, suggesting a potential upside of 22.34%. Given MSA Safety's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe MSA Safety is more favorable than Pitney Bowes.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
MSA Safety	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.83
Pitney Bowes	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer MSA or PBI?

MSA Safety received 38 more outperform votes than Pitney Bowes when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.09% of users gave MSA Safety an outperform vote while only 54.97% of users gave Pitney Bowes an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
MSA Safety	Outperform Votes 298 64.09%	Underperform Votes 167 35.91%
Pitney Bowes	Outperform Votes 260 54.97%	Underperform Votes 213 45.03%

Does the media prefer MSA or PBI?

In the previous week, MSA Safety had 21 more articles in the media than Pitney Bowes. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for MSA Safety and 6 mentions for Pitney Bowes. Pitney Bowes' average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat MSA Safety's score of 1.15 indicating that Pitney Bowes is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
MSA Safety	12 Very Positive mention(s)	8 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Pitney Bowes	4 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has more risk and volatility, MSA or PBI?

MSA Safety has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pitney Bowes has a beta of 1.89, meaning that its share price is 89% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Is MSA or PBI more profitable?

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
MSA Safety	15.76%	28.64%	13.74%
Pitney Bowes	-7.71%	-20.95%	2.64%

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in MSA or PBI?

92.5% of MSA Safety shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.9% of Pitney Bowes shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of MSA Safety shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 9.0% of Pitney Bowes 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.

Is MSA or PBI a better dividend stock?

MSA Safety pays an annual dividend of $2.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Pitney Bowes pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. MSA Safety pays out 28.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Pitney Bowes pays out -21.4% 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 increased its dividend for 55 consecutive years. Pitney Bowes is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Which has better valuation and earnings, MSA or PBI?

MSA Safety has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
MSA Safety	$1.81B	3.43	$284.97M	$7.25	21.78
Pitney Bowes	$2.03B	0.82	-$203.60M	-$1.12	-8.06

Summary

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