ALG vs. LNN, AGCO, MWA, ATMU, OI, LZ, TNC, ESE, AMBP, and AIN
Should you be buying Alamo Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alamo Group include Lindsay (LNN), AGCO (AGCO), Mueller Water Products (MWA), Atmus Filtration Technologies (ATMU), O-I Glass (OI), LegalZoom.com (LZ), Tennant (TNC), ESCO Technologies (ESE), Ardagh Metal Packaging (AMBP), and Albany International (AIN). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Lindsay (NYSE:LNN) and Alamo Group (NYSE:ALG) are both industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings and institutional ownership.
Lindsay presently has a consensus price target of $138.33, suggesting a potential upside of 18.98%. Alamo Group has a consensus price target of $215.33, suggesting a potential upside of 10.59%. Given Alamo Group's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Lindsay is more favorable than Alamo Group.
Lindsay has a beta of 0.61, suggesting that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alamo Group has a beta of 1.04, suggesting that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Lindsay has a net margin of 10.74% compared to Lindsay's net margin of 8.06%. Lindsay's return on equity of 15.52% beat Alamo Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Lindsay had 8 more articles in the media than Alamo Group. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Lindsay and 2 mentions for Alamo Group. Lindsay's average media sentiment score of 0.28 beat Alamo Group's score of -0.21 indicating that Alamo Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Alamo Group has higher revenue and earnings than Lindsay. Alamo Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lindsay, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
89.9% of Lindsay shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.4% of Alamo Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Lindsay shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Alamo Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Alamo Group received 16 more outperform votes than Lindsay when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.06% of users gave Alamo Group an outperform vote while only 54.88% of users gave Lindsay an outperform vote.
Lindsay pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Alamo Group pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Lindsay pays out 22.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Alamo Group pays out 9.2% 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. Lindsay has raised its dividend for 21 consecutive years and Alamo Group has raised its dividend for 10 consecutive years. Lindsay is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Alamo Group beats Lindsay on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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