PBI vs. HNI, SCS, TILE, ACCO, NL, ARC, AVY, MSA, AVT, and ITRI
Should you be buying Pitney Bowes stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pitney Bowes include HNI (HNI), Steelcase (SCS), Interface (TILE), ACCO Brands (ACCO), NL Industries (NL), ARC Document Solutions (ARC), Avery Dennison (AVY), MSA Safety (MSA), Avnet (AVT), and Itron (ITRI).
Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI) and HNI (NYSE:HNI) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.
Pitney Bowes pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. HNI pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Pitney Bowes pays out -9.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. HNI pays out 97.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Pitney Bowes is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
HNI has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Pitney Bowes. Pitney Bowes is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HNI, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, HNI had 17 more articles in the media than Pitney Bowes. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for HNI and 3 mentions for Pitney Bowes. Pitney Bowes' average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat HNI's score of 0.55 indicating that Pitney Bowes is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Pitney Bowes received 15 more outperform votes than HNI when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.97% of users gave HNI an outperform vote while only 54.58% of users gave Pitney Bowes an outperform vote.
Pitney Bowes has a beta of 1.99, meaning that its share price is 99% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HNI has a beta of 0.86, meaning that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
HNI has a consensus price target of $63.00, indicating a potential upside of 15.58%. Given HNI's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe HNI is more favorable than Pitney Bowes.
67.9% of Pitney Bowes shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.3% of HNI shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.3% of Pitney Bowes shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.4% of HNI shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
HNI has a net margin of 2.57% compared to Pitney Bowes' net margin of -11.67%. HNI's return on equity of 17.75% beat Pitney Bowes' return on equity.
Summary
HNI beats Pitney Bowes on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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