AGCO vs. ASTE, WAB, TTC, OSK, FSS, TEX, TRN, ALG, GBX, and LNN
Should you be buying AGCO stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AGCO include Astec Industries (ASTE), Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies (WAB), Toro (TTC), Oshkosh (OSK), Federal Signal (FSS), Terex (TEX), Trinity Industries (TRN), Alamo Group (ALG), Greenbrier Companies (GBX), and Lindsay (LNN). These companies are all part of the "construction & farm machinery & heavy trucks" industry.
Astec Industries (NASDAQ:ASTE) and AGCO (NYSE:AGCO) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Astec Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. AGCO pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Astec Industries pays out 47.7% 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. AGCO has increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years.
In the previous week, AGCO had 11 more articles in the media than Astec Industries. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for AGCO and 3 mentions for Astec Industries. AGCO's average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat Astec Industries' score of 0.07 indicating that Astec Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
AGCO has higher revenue and earnings than Astec Industries. AGCO is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Astec Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Astec Industries presently has a consensus target price of $43.50, indicating a potential upside of 23.44%. AGCO has a consensus target price of $126.63, indicating a potential upside of 22.38%. Given AGCO's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Astec Industries is more favorable than AGCO.
AGCO received 54 more outperform votes than Astec Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.16% of users gave Astec Industries an outperform vote while only 51.70% of users gave AGCO an outperform vote.
93.2% of Astec Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.8% of AGCO shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Astec Industries shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 16.6% of AGCO shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
AGCO has a net margin of 7.90% compared to AGCO's net margin of 1.91%. Astec Industries' return on equity of 24.02% beat AGCO's return on equity.
Astec Industries has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AGCO has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
AGCO beats Astec Industries on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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