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.
Bel Fuse (NASDAQ:BELFB) and Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, valuation, dividends and media sentiment.
Bel Fuse has a net margin of 12.62% compared to Bel Fuse's net margin of -11.81%. Pitney Bowes' return on equity of 24.03% beat Bel Fuse's return on equity.
Bel Fuse has a beta of 1.45, indicating that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pitney Bowes has a beta of 2.16, indicating that its share price is 116% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Bel Fuse had 10 more articles in the media than Pitney Bowes. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Bel Fuse and 5 mentions for Pitney Bowes. Bel Fuse's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Pitney Bowes' score of 0.22 indicating that Pitney Bowes is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Bel Fuse has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.
Pitney Bowes received 5 more outperform votes than Bel Fuse when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.61% of users gave Bel Fuse an outperform vote while only 54.29% of users gave Pitney Bowes an outperform vote.
58.4% of Bel Fuse shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.9% of Pitney Bowes shares are held by institutional investors. 5.4% of Bel Fuse shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.2% of Pitney Bowes shares are held 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.
Bel Fuse presently has a consensus target price of $76.50, suggesting a potential upside of 32.10%. Given Pitney Bowes' higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Bel Fuse is more favorable than Pitney Bowes.
Bel Fuse pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Pitney Bowes pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Bel Fuse pays out 4.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Pitney Bowes pays out -9.1% 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.
Summary
Bel Fuse beats Pitney Bowes on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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