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.
Astec Industries (NASDAQ:ASTE) and AGCO (NYSE:AGCO) are both industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.
Astec Industries currently has a consensus price target of $43.50, suggesting a potential upside of 33.07%. AGCO has a consensus price target of $141.83, suggesting a potential upside of 35.69%. Given Astec Industries' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe AGCO is more favorable than Astec Industries.
Astec Industries has a beta of 1.4, suggesting that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AGCO has a beta of 1.32, suggesting that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
93.2% of Astec Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.8% of AGCO shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Astec Industries shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 16.6% of AGCO shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, AGCO had 3 more articles in the media than Astec Industries. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for AGCO and 8 mentions for Astec Industries. AGCO's average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat Astec Industries' score of 0.62 indicating that Astec Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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 AGCO's net margin of 1.91%. Astec Industries' return on equity of 24.02% beat AGCO's return on equity.
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.
Astec Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. AGCO pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Astec Industries pays out 47.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. AGCO pays out 7.8% 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. Astec Industries has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years and AGCO has raised its dividend for 11 consecutive years.
Summary
AGCO beats Astec Industries on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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