Toro (TTC) Competitors

AGCO (NYSE:AGCO) and Toro (NYSE:TTC) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and profitability.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in AGCO or TTC?

Toro received 2 more outperform votes than AGCO when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.97% of users gave Toro an outperform vote while only 51.04% of users gave AGCO an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
AGCO	Outperform Votes 467 51.04%	Underperform Votes 448 48.96%
Toro	Outperform Votes 469 68.97%	Underperform Votes 211 31.03%

Do analysts recommend AGCO or TTC?

AGCO currently has a consensus target price of $99.80, indicating a potential upside of 18.92%. Toro has a consensus target price of $89.75, indicating a potential upside of 32.73%. Given Toro's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Toro is more favorable than AGCO.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
AGCO	1 Sell rating(s)	7 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.25
Toro	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.80

Which has more volatility & risk, AGCO or TTC?

AGCO has a beta of 1.16, indicating that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Toro has a beta of 0.72, indicating that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is AGCO or TTC a better dividend stock?

AGCO pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Toro pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. AGCO pays out -20.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Toro pays out 38.9% 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 raised its dividend for 12 consecutive years and Toro has raised its dividend for 21 consecutive years. Toro is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Do insiders & institutionals believe in AGCO or TTC?

78.8% of AGCO shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.9% of Toro shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.6% of AGCO shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Toro shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has better valuation & earnings, AGCO or TTC?

Toro has lower revenue, but higher earnings than AGCO. AGCO is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Toro, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
AGCO	$11.66B	0.54	-$424.80M	-$5.69	-14.75
Toro	$4.58B	1.47	$418.90M	$3.91	17.29

Is AGCO or TTC more profitable?

Toro has a net margin of 9.14% compared to AGCO's net margin of -3.64%. Toro's return on equity of 27.25% beat AGCO's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
AGCO	-3.64%	13.40%	4.32%
Toro	9.14%	27.25%	11.63%

Does the media prefer AGCO or TTC?

In the previous week, AGCO had 11 more articles in the media than Toro. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for AGCO and 13 mentions for Toro. Toro's average media sentiment score of 1.52 beat AGCO's score of 1.01 indicating that Toro is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
AGCO	14 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	7 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Toro	11 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive

Summary

Toro beats AGCO on 16 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.