TTC vs. WAB, AGCO, OSK, FSS, TEX, TRN, ALG, GBX, LNN, and WNC
Should you be buying Toro stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Toro include Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies (WAB), AGCO (AGCO), Oshkosh (OSK), Federal Signal (FSS), Terex (TEX), Trinity Industries (TRN), Alamo Group (ALG), Greenbrier Companies (GBX), Lindsay (LNN), and Wabash National (WNC). These companies are all part of the "construction & farm machinery & heavy trucks" industry.
Toro (NYSE:TTC) and Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies (NYSE:WAB) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.
In the previous week, Toro had 26 more articles in the media than Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Toro and 3 mentions for Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies. Toro's average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies' score of 0.25 indicating that Toro is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies has a net margin of 9.20% compared to Toro's net margin of 6.00%. Toro's return on equity of 25.04% beat Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies' return on equity.
Toro has a beta of 0.67, suggesting that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies has a beta of 1.32, suggesting that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Toro presently has a consensus price target of $98.75, suggesting a potential upside of 2.89%. Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies has a consensus price target of $158.82, suggesting a potential downside of 2.67%. Given Toro's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Toro is more favorable than Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies.
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies received 6 more outperform votes than Toro when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.61% of users gave Toro an outperform vote while only 66.15% of users gave Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies an outperform vote.
Toro pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Toro pays out 56.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies pays out 15.6% 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.
88.0% of Toro shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.7% of Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of Toro shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Toro. Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Toro, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies beats Toro on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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