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$402.94 +5.55 (+1.40%)
Closing price 10/14/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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VMI vs. AIT, ALLE, AOS, GEF, IR, DOV, PNR, SNA, WWD, and ITT

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), Ingersoll Rand (IR), Dover (DOV), Pentair (PNR), Snap-On (SNA), Woodward (WWD), and ITT (ITT).

Valmont Industries vs. Its Competitors

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

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%

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 increased its dividend for 16 consecutive years and Valmont Industries has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Applied Industrial Technologies is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Applied Industrial Technologies currently has a consensus price target of $285.00, indicating a potential upside of 12.63%. Valmont Industries has a consensus price target of $420.67, indicating a potential upside of 4.40%. Given Applied Industrial Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly 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)
7 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.88
Valmont Industries
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.60

In the previous week, Applied Industrial Technologies had 2 more articles in the media than Valmont Industries. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Applied Industrial Technologies and 8 mentions for Valmont Industries. Valmont Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Applied Industrial Technologies' score of 0.86 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
6 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Valmont Industries
4 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

93.5% of Applied Industrial Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.8% of Valmont Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% 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 has a beta of 0.96, indicating that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Valmont Industries has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.

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$4.56B2.09$392.99M$10.1225.00
Valmont Industries$4.08B1.95$348.26M$10.7437.52

Summary

Applied Industrial Technologies beats Valmont Industries on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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VMI vs. The Competition

MetricValmont IndustriesSTEEL IndustryIndustrials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$7.84B$4.77B$7.77B$21.76B
Dividend Yield0.68%3.69%4.60%3.63%
P/E Ratio37.5218.12297.6929.93
Price / Sales1.951.631,288.5268.45
Price / Cash18.0713.9328.1423.91
Price / Book5.243.324.904.68
Net Income$348.26M$370.27M$791.48M$1.01B
7 Day Performance-1.56%-2.06%-0.14%-0.71%
1 Month Performance6.64%-2.69%4.11%1.18%
1 Year Performance32.68%16.94%30.01%14.46%

Valmont Industries Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
VMI
Valmont Industries
4.1123 of 5 stars
$402.94
+1.4%
$420.67
+4.4%
+32.7%$7.84B$4.08B37.5210,986Upcoming Earnings
AIT
Applied Industrial Technologies
4.811 of 5 stars
$247.09
+0.4%
$285.00
+15.3%
+11.1%$9.29B$4.56B24.426,800News Coverage
ALLE
Allegion
4.4312 of 5 stars
$173.78
+0.3%
$174.25
+0.3%
+17.5%$14.88B$3.77B24.1414,400
AOS
A. O. Smith
4.8605 of 5 stars
$67.70
-0.1%
$77.43
+14.4%
-16.7%$9.49B$3.82B18.8612,700Dividend Increase
GEF
Greif
4.5858 of 5 stars
$58.18
+0.4%
$75.80
+30.3%
-7.5%$2.75B$5.45B18.4714,000
IR
Ingersoll Rand
4.4486 of 5 stars
$76.23
+0.2%
$98.00
+28.6%
-24.6%$30.25B$7.24B59.5521,000Analyst Revision
DOV
Dover
4.9107 of 5 stars
$161.42
0.0%
$212.42
+31.6%
-16.1%$22.14B$7.75B9.7424,000Positive News
PNR
Pentair
4.161 of 5 stars
$108.83
+1.5%
$115.50
+6.1%
+11.7%$17.58B$4.08B29.749,750Upcoming Earnings
SNA
Snap-On
4.4145 of 5 stars
$332.61
+1.6%
$357.00
+7.3%
+13.6%$17.07B$5.11B17.7413,000Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
WWD
Woodward
4.6169 of 5 stars
$253.51
+2.6%
$268.67
+6.0%
+54.4%$14.82B$3.32B40.119,300
ITT
ITT
4.532 of 5 stars
$171.77
+0.5%
$190.89
+11.1%
+12.2%$13.33B$3.63B27.0111,700Positive News

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This page (NYSE:VMI) was last updated on 10/15/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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