AGCO vs. TTC, ALG, GPK, DCI, ATR, RBC, AIT, MSA, MIDD, and CCK
Should you be buying AGCO stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AGCO include Toro (TTC), Alamo Group (ALG), Graphic Packaging (GPK), Donaldson (DCI), AptarGroup (ATR), RBC Bearings (RBC), Applied Industrial Technologies (AIT), MSA Safety (MSA), Middleby (MIDD), and Crown (CCK).
Toro (NYSE:TTC) and AGCO (NYSE:AGCO) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability and analyst recommendations.
AGCO has a net margin of 7.90% compared to AGCO's net margin of 6.53%. AGCO's return on equity of 26.66% beat Toro's return on equity.
88.0% of Toro shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.8% of AGCO shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of Toro shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.6% of AGCO shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, AGCO had 6 more articles in the media than Toro. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for AGCO and 8 mentions for Toro. AGCO's average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat Toro's score of 0.48 indicating that Toro is being referred to more favorably in the media.
AGCO has higher revenue and earnings than Toro. AGCO is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Toro, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Toro pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. AGCO pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Toro pays out 52.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. AGCO pays out 7.8% 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. Toro has raised its dividend for 20 consecutive years and AGCO has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Toro is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Toro received 13 more outperform votes than AGCO when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.82% of users gave Toro an outperform vote while only 51.83% of users gave AGCO an outperform vote.
Toro presently has a consensus price target of $105.60, indicating a potential upside of 19.67%. AGCO has a consensus price target of $141.83, indicating a potential upside of 28.94%. Given Toro's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe AGCO is more favorable than Toro.
Toro has a beta of 0.72, suggesting that its stock price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AGCO has a beta of 1.32, suggesting that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
AGCO beats Toro on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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