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PBI vs. MSA, HNI, TILE, SCS, NL, ACCO, AVY, QRVO, OLED, and OTEX

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), Qorvo (QRVO), Universal Display (OLED), and Open Text (OTEX).

Pitney Bowes vs. Its Competitors

Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI) and MSA Safety Incorporporated (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 media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk, valuation and profitability.

67.9% of Pitney Bowes shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.5% of MSA Safety Incorporporated shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.0% of Pitney Bowes shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of MSA Safety Incorporporated shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Pitney Bowes has a beta of 1.61, indicating that its stock price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MSA Safety Incorporporated has a beta of 0.95, indicating that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Pitney Bowes had 2 more articles in the media than MSA Safety Incorporporated. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Pitney Bowes and 2 mentions for MSA Safety Incorporporated. MSA Safety Incorporporated's average media sentiment score of 1.68 beat Pitney Bowes' score of 0.47 indicating that MSA Safety Incorporporated is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Pitney Bowes
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
MSA Safety Incorporporated
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

MSA Safety Incorporporated received 38 more outperform votes than Pitney Bowes when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.97% of users gave MSA Safety Incorporporated 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 Safety IncorporporatedOutperform Votes
300
63.97%
Underperform Votes
169
36.03%

MSA Safety Incorporporated has a consensus target price of $191.80, suggesting a potential upside of 16.30%. Given MSA Safety Incorporporated's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe MSA Safety Incorporporated 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 Incorporporated
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.83

MSA Safety Incorporporated has a net margin of 15.77% compared to Pitney Bowes' net margin of -7.18%. MSA Safety Incorporporated's return on equity of 27.65% beat Pitney Bowes' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Pitney Bowes-7.18% -31.61% 4.53%
MSA Safety Incorporporated 15.77%27.65%13.77%

MSA Safety Incorporporated has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Pitney Bowes. Pitney Bowes is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MSA Safety Incorporporated, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Pitney Bowes$2.03B0.92-$203.60M-$0.91-11.21
MSA Safety Incorporporated$1.82B3.57$284.97M$7.2522.75

Pitney Bowes pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. MSA Safety Incorporporated pays an annual dividend of $2.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Pitney Bowes pays out -30.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. MSA Safety Incorporporated 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 Incorporporated has raised its dividend for 56 consecutive years. Pitney Bowes is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Summary

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

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding PBI and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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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PBI vs. The Competition

MetricPitney BowesOFFICE AUTO&EQP IndustryComputer SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$1.87B$3.26B$26.20B$19.64B
Dividend Yield2.69%1.43%2.95%3.80%
P/E Ratio-11.2115.4334.4527.00
Price / Sales0.920.482,632.2334.73
Price / Cash6.575.6936.9721.33
Price / Book-3.210.686.734.39
Net Income-$203.60M-$7.39M$778.03M$986.75M
7 Day Performance-0.58%-0.73%1.34%0.16%
1 Month Performance10.68%-7.53%2.21%0.98%
1 Year Performance112.60%22.38%52,206.52%10.01%

Pitney Bowes Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PBI
Pitney Bowes
3.1412 of 5 stars
$10.21
-1.8%
N/A+112.5%$1.87B$2.03B-11.217,200Positive News
MSA
MSA Safety
4.8097 of 5 stars
$165.77
+2.2%
$191.80
+15.7%
-10.7%$6.52B$1.82B22.995,000Positive News
HNI
HNI
4.8894 of 5 stars
$47.18
+1.8%
$71.00
+50.5%
+7.3%$2.20B$2.54B16.337,300
TILE
Interface
4.7962 of 5 stars
$20.39
+1.6%
$30.00
+47.1%
+34.4%$1.20B$1.32B14.263,650Positive News
Short Interest ↑
SCS
Steelcase
4.7787 of 5 stars
$10.35
+1.9%
$17.00
+64.2%
-18.5%$1.19B$3.17B10.7811,800Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
NL
NL Industries
0.7017 of 5 stars
$6.77
-0.1%
$6.00
-11.3%
+0.8%$330.46M$148.24M5.642,820High Trading Volume
ACCO
ACCO Brands
4.9477 of 5 stars
$3.55
-1.0%
$6.00
+69.3%
-27.8%$319.40M$1.62B-3.346,000
AVY
Avery Dennison
4.9022 of 5 stars
$176.37
+1.0%
$206.60
+17.1%
-23.4%$13.79B$8.75B20.2336,000Positive News
QRVO
Qorvo
3.982 of 5 stars
$80.74
+1.7%
$91.21
+13.0%
-30.0%$7.51B$3.72B288.368,900
OLED
Universal Display
3.8836 of 5 stars
$155.88
+1.5%
$190.43
+22.2%
-26.7%$7.41B$648.70M33.52440Positive News
OTEX
Open Text
4.737 of 5 stars
$28.52
+0.9%
$32.30
+13.3%
-2.0%$7.39B$5.22B11.5914,800High Trading Volume

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This page (NYSE:PBI) was last updated on 6/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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