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$373.76 -12.94 (-3.35%)
Closing price 09/12/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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VMI vs. AIT, ALLE, AOS, GEF, DOV, PNR, SNA, WWD, GGG, and LECO

Should you be buying Valmont Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Valmont Industries include Applied Industrial Technologies (AIT), Allegion (ALLE), A. O. Smith (AOS), Greif (GEF), Dover (DOV), Pentair (PNR), Snap-On (SNA), Woodward (WWD), Graco (GGG), and Lincoln Electric (LECO).

Valmont Industries vs. Its Competitors

Applied Industrial Technologies (NYSE:AIT) and Valmont Industries (NYSE:VMI) are both industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability and earnings.

Applied Industrial Technologies presently has a consensus target price of $285.00, suggesting a potential upside of 8.35%. Valmont Industries has a consensus target price of $391.00, suggesting a potential upside of 4.61%. Given Applied Industrial Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Applied Industrial Technologies is more favorable than Valmont Industries.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Applied Industrial Technologies
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.86
Valmont Industries
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.67

Applied Industrial Technologies has a net margin of 8.61% compared to Valmont Industries' net margin of 5.98%. Valmont Industries' return on equity of 22.10% beat Applied Industrial Technologies' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Applied Industrial Technologies8.61% 21.78% 12.74%
Valmont Industries 5.98%22.10%10.19%

93.5% of Applied Industrial Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.8% of Valmont Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of Applied Industrial Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Valmont Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Applied Industrial Technologies pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Valmont Industries pays an annual dividend of $2.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Applied Industrial Technologies pays out 18.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Valmont Industries pays out 25.3% 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. Applied Industrial Technologies has raised its dividend for 16 consecutive years and Valmont Industries has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.

Applied Industrial Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Valmont Industries. Applied Industrial Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Valmont Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Applied Industrial Technologies$4.56B2.18$392.99M$10.1225.99
Valmont Industries$4.08B1.81$348.26M$10.7434.80

Applied Industrial Technologies has a beta of 1, meaning that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Valmont Industries has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Applied Industrial Technologies had 5 more articles in the media than Valmont Industries. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Applied Industrial Technologies and 15 mentions for Valmont Industries. Valmont Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.32 beat Applied Industrial Technologies' score of 1.04 indicating that Valmont Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Applied Industrial Technologies
14 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Valmont Industries
12 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Applied Industrial Technologies beats Valmont Industries on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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VMI vs. The Competition

MetricValmont IndustriesSTEEL IndustryIndustrials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$7.63B$4.94B$7.79B$21.64B
Dividend Yield0.72%3.48%4.56%3.49%
P/E Ratio34.8019.03315.0729.75
Price / Sales1.811.71217.2468.31
Price / Cash17.5815.2128.9125.00
Price / Book4.863.474.604.58
Net Income$348.26M$371.23M$798.53M$1.00B
7 Day Performance-0.93%-1.08%0.90%0.65%
1 Month Performance-1.78%0.85%0.76%3.07%
1 Year Performance36.16%30.21%26.46%14.34%

Valmont Industries Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
VMI
Valmont Industries
4.201 of 5 stars
$373.76
-3.3%
$391.00
+4.6%
+37.3%$7.63B$4.08B34.8010,986News Coverage
Positive News
AIT
Applied Industrial Technologies
4.7816 of 5 stars
$265.81
+0.1%
$285.00
+7.2%
+30.2%$10.02B$4.56B26.276,800Positive News
ALLE
Allegion
4.8354 of 5 stars
$173.13
+0.7%
$166.75
-3.7%
+25.6%$14.75B$3.77B24.0514,400Positive News
AOS
A. O. Smith
4.6972 of 5 stars
$73.84
+0.2%
$77.43
+4.9%
-8.6%$10.32B$3.82B20.5712,700Positive News
GEF
Greif
4.391 of 5 stars
$61.16
-0.4%
$75.80
+23.9%
+2.6%$2.91B$5.43B19.4114,000News Coverage
Analyst Downgrade
Insider Trade
DOV
Dover
4.8881 of 5 stars
$177.86
+0.1%
$213.92
+20.3%
-7.2%$24.38B$7.83B10.7324,000Positive News
PNR
Pentair
4.352 of 5 stars
$110.71
+0.1%
$114.36
+3.3%
+22.3%$18.14B$4.08B30.259,750Positive News
Analyst Revision
SNA
Snap-On
4.499 of 5 stars
$326.48
-0.7%
$357.00
+9.3%
+20.1%$17.15B$5.07B17.4113,000Positive News
WWD
Woodward
4.4659 of 5 stars
$240.94
-0.8%
$253.11
+5.1%
+42.4%$14.56B$3.32B38.129,300Positive News
Analyst Downgrade
Insider Trade
Short Interest ↑
GGG
Graco
4.2942 of 5 stars
$85.89
+0.0%
$94.50
+10.0%
+2.6%$14.23B$2.17B30.464,300Positive News
LECO
Lincoln Electric
4.1233 of 5 stars
$243.24
-0.4%
$239.33
-1.6%
+35.4%$13.48B$4.10B27.3312,000Positive News
Insider Trade

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This page (NYSE:VMI) was last updated on 9/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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