PBI vs. BELFB, RDWR, YALA, KC, TTGT, IIIV, WEAV, CHGG, GDYN, and WKME
Should you be buying Pitney Bowes stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pitney Bowes include Bel Fuse (BELFB), Radware (RDWR), Yalla Group (YALA), Kingsoft Cloud (KC), TechTarget (TTGT), i3 Verticals (IIIV), Weave Communications (WEAV), Chegg (CHGG), Grid Dynamics (GDYN), and WalkMe (WKME). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI) and Bel Fuse (NASDAQ:BELFB) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, dividends, earnings, profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Bel Fuse has a consensus target price of $76.50, suggesting a potential upside of 26.03%. Given Bel Fuse's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Bel Fuse is more favorable than Pitney Bowes.
Pitney Bowes pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Bel Fuse pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Pitney Bowes pays out -9.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bel Fuse pays out 4.8% 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 is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Pitney Bowes received 6 more outperform votes than Bel Fuse when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.52% of users gave Bel Fuse an outperform vote while only 54.29% of users gave Pitney Bowes an outperform vote.
Bel Fuse has a net margin of 11.54% compared to Pitney Bowes' net margin of -11.81%. Bel Fuse's return on equity of 24.87% beat Pitney Bowes' return on equity.
In the previous week, Pitney Bowes had 4 more articles in the media than Bel Fuse. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Pitney Bowes and 3 mentions for Bel Fuse. Pitney Bowes' average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Bel Fuse's score of 0.00 indicating that Pitney Bowes is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Bel Fuse has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Pitney Bowes. Pitney Bowes is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bel Fuse, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
67.9% of Pitney Bowes shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.4% of Bel Fuse shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.2% of Pitney Bowes shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.4% of Bel Fuse shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Pitney Bowes has a beta of 2.16, suggesting that its stock price is 116% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bel Fuse has a beta of 1.45, suggesting that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Bel Fuse beats Pitney Bowes on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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