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.
AGCO (NYSE:AGCO) and Astec Industries (NASDAQ:ASTE) are both industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, media sentiment, dividends and valuation.
AGCO presently has a consensus price target of $141.83, suggesting a potential upside of 32.15%. Astec Industries has a consensus price target of $43.50, suggesting a potential upside of 33.89%. Given Astec Industries' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Astec Industries is more favorable than AGCO.
AGCO pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Astec Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. AGCO pays out 7.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Astec Industries pays out 47.7% 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.
78.8% of AGCO shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.2% of Astec Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.6% of AGCO shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Astec Industries shares are owned by company 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.
In the previous week, AGCO and AGCO both had 7 articles in the media. AGCO's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Astec Industries' score of 0.47 indicating that AGCO is being referred to more favorably in the media.
AGCO received 51 more outperform votes than Astec Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.16% of users gave Astec Industries an outperform vote while only 51.83% of users gave AGCO an outperform vote.
AGCO has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Astec Industries has a beta of 1.4, indicating that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
AGCO has a net margin of 7.90% compared to Astec Industries' net margin of 1.91%. AGCO's return on equity of 24.02% beat Astec Industries' return on equity.
Summary
AGCO beats Astec Industries on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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