AGCO (AGCO) Competitors

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

Which has more volatility and risk, AGCO or TTC?

AGCO has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Toro has a beta of 0.69, suggesting that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in AGCO or TTC?

Toro received 6 more outperform votes than AGCO when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.24% of users gave Toro an outperform vote while only 51.63% of users gave AGCO an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
AGCO	Outperform Votes 460 51.63%	Underperform Votes 431 48.37%
Toro	Outperform Votes 466 69.24%	Underperform Votes 207 30.76%

Do analysts rate AGCO or TTC?

AGCO presently has a consensus target price of $114.40, suggesting a potential upside of 22.09%. Toro has a consensus target price of $93.33, suggesting a potential upside of 15.28%. Given AGCO's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe AGCO is more favorable than Toro.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
AGCO	0 Sell rating(s)	6 Hold rating(s)	5 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.45
Toro	0 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Is AGCO or TTC more profitable?

Toro has a net margin of 8.89% compared to AGCO's net margin of 1.35%. Toro's return on equity of 25.94% beat AGCO's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
AGCO	1.35%	15.79%	5.35%
Toro	8.89%	25.94%	10.95%

Which has higher earnings and valuation, AGCO or TTC?

AGCO has higher revenue and earnings than Toro. Toro is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AGCO, 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	$14.41B	0.49	$1.17B	$2.26	41.46
Toro	$4.55B	1.82	$329.70M	$3.81	21.25

Is AGCO or TTC a better dividend stock?

AGCO pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Toro pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. AGCO pays out 51.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Toro pays out 37.8% 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 increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years and Toro has increased its dividend for 20 consecutive years. Toro is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Does the media prefer AGCO or TTC?

In the previous week, AGCO had 1 more articles in the media than Toro. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for AGCO and 9 mentions for Toro. Toro's average media sentiment score of 1.51 beat AGCO's score of 0.67 indicating that Toro is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
AGCO	5 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Toro	8 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive

Do insiders & institutionals believe in AGCO or TTC?

78.8% of AGCO shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.0% of Toro shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.6% of AGCO shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Toro 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.

Summary

Toro beats AGCO on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.