AGCO vs. TTC, ALG, GPK, DCI, ATR, RBC, AIT, MSA, MIDD, and CCK
Should you be buying AGCO stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AGCO include Toro (TTC), Alamo Group (ALG), Graphic Packaging (GPK), Donaldson (DCI), AptarGroup (ATR), RBC Bearings (RBC), Applied Industrial Technologies (AIT), MSA Safety (MSA), Middleby (MIDD), and Crown (CCK).
AGCO (NYSE:AGCO) and Toro (NYSE:TTC) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, dividends and risk.
AGCO pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Toro pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. AGCO pays out 7.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Toro pays out 52.6% 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 a beta of 1.32, suggesting that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Toro has a beta of 0.72, suggesting that its stock price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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 large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, AGCO had 10 more articles in the media than Toro. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for AGCO and 6 mentions for Toro. Toro's average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat AGCO's score of 0.44 indicating that Toro is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
AGCO has a net margin of 7.90% compared to Toro's net margin of 6.53%. Toro's return on equity of 26.66% beat AGCO's return on equity.
AGCO has higher revenue and earnings than Toro. AGCO is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Toro, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Toro received 13 more outperform votes than AGCO when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.82% of users gave Toro an outperform vote while only 51.83% of users gave AGCO an outperform vote.
AGCO currently has a consensus price target of $141.83, indicating a potential upside of 28.92%. Toro has a consensus price target of $98.75, indicating a potential upside of 11.91%. Given AGCO's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe AGCO is more favorable than Toro.
Summary
AGCO beats Toro on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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