AGCO vs. RBC, CR, ROLL, TTC, DCI, TTEK, TEX, ALG, LNN, and ASTE
Should you be buying AGCO stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AGCO include RBC Bearings (RBC), Crane (CR), RBC Bearings (ROLL), Toro (TTC), Donaldson (DCI), Tetra Tech (TTEK), Terex (TEX), Alamo Group (ALG), Lindsay (LNN), and Astec Industries (ASTE).
AGCO (NYSE:AGCO) and RBC Bearings (NYSE:RBC) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, risk and analyst recommendations.
RBC Bearings has a net margin of 13.45% compared to AGCO's net margin of 7.90%. AGCO's return on equity of 24.02% beat RBC Bearings' return on equity.
AGCO currently has a consensus target price of $141.83, suggesting a potential upside of 33.60%. RBC Bearings has a consensus target price of $286.57, suggesting a potential downside of 0.49%. Given AGCO's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe AGCO is more favorable than RBC Bearings.
78.8% of AGCO shares are held by institutional investors. 16.8% of AGCO shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of RBC Bearings shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
AGCO has higher revenue and earnings than RBC Bearings. AGCO is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RBC Bearings, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AGCO received 214 more outperform votes than RBC Bearings when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 55.22% of users gave RBC Bearings an outperform vote while only 51.83% of users gave AGCO an outperform vote.
In the previous week, AGCO had 1 more articles in the media than RBC Bearings. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for AGCO and 13 mentions for RBC Bearings. RBC Bearings' average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat AGCO's score of 0.63 indicating that RBC Bearings is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
AGCO has a beta of 1.32, suggesting that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RBC Bearings has a beta of 1.46, suggesting that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
AGCO beats RBC Bearings on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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