ASTE vs. PLOW, MTW, CMCO, KRNT, PRLB, XMTR, GRC, ERII, HY, and TRS
Should you be buying Astec Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Astec Industries include Douglas Dynamics (PLOW), Manitowoc (MTW), Columbus McKinnon (CMCO), Kornit Digital (KRNT), Proto Labs (PRLB), Xometry (XMTR), Gorman-Rupp (GRC), Energy Recovery (ERII), Hyster-Yale Materials Handling (HY), and TriMas (TRS).
Douglas Dynamics (NYSE:PLOW) and Astec Industries (NASDAQ:ASTE) are both small-cap auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation and profitability.
88.9% of Douglas Dynamics shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.8% of Astec Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 2.5% of Douglas Dynamics shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Astec Industries shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Astec Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Douglas Dynamics. Douglas Dynamics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Astec Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Douglas Dynamics has a beta of 1.14, indicating that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Astec Industries has a beta of 1.38, indicating that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Douglas Dynamics has a net margin of 4.18% compared to Douglas Dynamics' net margin of 2.50%. Astec Industries' return on equity of 10.18% beat Douglas Dynamics' return on equity.
Douglas Dynamics currently has a consensus price target of $43.00, indicating a potential upside of 87.20%. Astec Industries has a consensus price target of $46.00, indicating a potential upside of 13.19%. Given Astec Industries' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Douglas Dynamics is more favorable than Astec Industries.
Astec Industries received 121 more outperform votes than Douglas Dynamics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.37% of users gave Astec Industries an outperform vote while only 55.23% of users gave Douglas Dynamics an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Douglas Dynamics had 28 more articles in the media than Astec Industries. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for Douglas Dynamics and 4 mentions for Astec Industries. Douglas Dynamics' average media sentiment score of 0.26 beat Astec Industries' score of 0.00 indicating that Astec Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Douglas Dynamics pays an annual dividend of $1.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Astec Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Douglas Dynamics pays out 122.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Astec Industries pays out 35.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Douglas Dynamics has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years. Douglas Dynamics is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Astec Industries beats Douglas Dynamics on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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