ACCO vs. DMRC, MTW, EBF, ITRN, KRT, EAF, ALTG, CIX, BOOM, and NWPX
Should you be buying ACCO Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ACCO Brands include Digimarc (DMRC), Manitowoc (MTW), Ennis (EBF), Ituran Location and Control (ITRN), Karat Packaging (KRT), GrafTech International (EAF), Alta Equipment Group (ALTG), CompX International (CIX), DMC Global (BOOM), and Northwest Pipe (NWPX). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Digimarc (NASDAQ:DMRC) and ACCO Brands (NYSE:ACCO) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, dividends and community ranking.
Digimarc has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ACCO Brands has a beta of 1.64, suggesting that its share price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, ACCO Brands had 5 more articles in the media than Digimarc. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for ACCO Brands and 2 mentions for Digimarc. ACCO Brands' average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Digimarc's score of 0.46 indicating that Digimarc is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Digimarc presently has a consensus target price of $25.00, indicating a potential upside of 11.71%. ACCO Brands has a consensus target price of $7.50, indicating a potential upside of 55.28%. Given Digimarc's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe ACCO Brands is more favorable than Digimarc.
66.9% of Digimarc shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.6% of ACCO Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.5% of Digimarc shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.3% of ACCO Brands shares are owned by 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.
ACCO Brands received 82 more outperform votes than Digimarc when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.01% of users gave Digimarc an outperform vote while only 59.88% of users gave ACCO Brands an outperform vote.
ACCO Brands has a net margin of -1.19% compared to ACCO Brands' net margin of -131.87%. Digimarc's return on equity of 12.94% beat ACCO Brands' return on equity.
ACCO Brands has higher revenue and earnings than Digimarc. ACCO Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Digimarc, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
ACCO Brands beats Digimarc on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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