Toro (TTC) Competitors

CNH GLOBAL N V Foreign (NYSE:CNH) and Toro (NYSE:TTC) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends and media sentiment.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in CNH or TTC?

Toro received 345 more outperform votes than CNH GLOBAL N V Foreign when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.61% of users gave Toro an outperform vote while only 60.39% of users gave CNH GLOBAL N V Foreign an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
CNH GLOBAL N V Foreign	Outperform Votes 125 60.39%	Underperform Votes 82 39.61%
Toro	Outperform Votes 470 68.61%	Underperform Votes 215 31.39%

Do analysts prefer CNH or TTC?

CNH GLOBAL N V Foreign currently has a consensus price target of $15.08, indicating a potential upside of 17.24%. Toro has a consensus price target of $82.75, indicating a potential upside of 15.40%. Given CNH GLOBAL N V Foreign's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe CNH GLOBAL N V Foreign is more favorable than Toro.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
CNH GLOBAL N V Foreign	0 Sell rating(s)	5 Hold rating(s)	8 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.71
Toro	0 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.20

Which has more risk & volatility, CNH or TTC?

CNH GLOBAL N V Foreign has a beta of 1.52, indicating that its stock price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Toro has a beta of 0.83, indicating that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do institutionals & insiders have more ownership in CNH or TTC?

59.9% of CNH GLOBAL N V Foreign shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.9% of Toro shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of CNH GLOBAL N V Foreign shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Toro shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is CNH or TTC a better dividend stock?

CNH GLOBAL N V Foreign pays an annual dividend of $0.47 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Toro pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. CNH GLOBAL N V Foreign pays out 57.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Toro pays out 39.0% 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. Toro has increased its dividend for 21 consecutive years.

Is CNH or TTC more profitable?

Toro has a net margin of 9.14% compared to CNH GLOBAL N V Foreign's net margin of 6.62%. Toro's return on equity of 27.25% beat CNH GLOBAL N V Foreign's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CNH GLOBAL N V Foreign	6.62%	18.00%	3.13%
Toro	9.14%	27.25%	11.63%

Which has stronger earnings and valuation, CNH or TTC?

CNH GLOBAL N V Foreign has higher revenue and earnings than Toro. CNH GLOBAL N V Foreign 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
CNH GLOBAL N V Foreign	$18.85B	0.85	$1.25B	$0.82	15.69
Toro	$4.55B	1.57	$418.90M	$3.90	18.39

Does the media favor CNH or TTC?

In the previous week, Toro had 35 more articles in the media than CNH GLOBAL N V Foreign. MarketBeat recorded 42 mentions for Toro and 7 mentions for CNH GLOBAL N V Foreign. CNH GLOBAL N V Foreign's average media sentiment score of 1.51 beat Toro's score of 0.20 indicating that CNH GLOBAL N V Foreign is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
CNH GLOBAL N V Foreign	6 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive
Toro	6 Very Positive mention(s)	6 Positive mention(s)	15 Neutral mention(s)	6 Negative mention(s)	1 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Summary

Toro beats CNH GLOBAL N V Foreign on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.