DCI vs. AGCO, GPK, ATR, CCK, MIDD, SITE, AIT, MSA, TTEK, and RBC
Should you be buying Donaldson stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Donaldson include AGCO (AGCO), Graphic Packaging (GPK), AptarGroup (ATR), Crown (CCK), Middleby (MIDD), SiteOne Landscape Supply (SITE), Applied Industrial Technologies (AIT), MSA Safety (MSA), Tetra Tech (TTEK), and RBC Bearings (RBC). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
AGCO (NYSE:AGCO) and Donaldson (NYSE:DCI) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, dividends and community ranking.
In the previous week, AGCO had 28 more articles in the media than Donaldson. MarketBeat recorded 35 mentions for AGCO and 7 mentions for Donaldson. AGCO's average media sentiment score of 0.27 beat Donaldson's score of 0.27 indicating that Donaldson is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
AGCO pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Donaldson pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. AGCO pays out 7.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Donaldson pays out 32.6% 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 raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Donaldson has raised its dividend for 37 consecutive years. Donaldson is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
AGCO presently has a consensus target price of $141.83, indicating a potential upside of 23.37%. Donaldson has a consensus target price of $67.50, indicating a potential downside of 9.53%. Given Donaldson's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe AGCO is more favorable than Donaldson.
Donaldson has a net margin of 10.82% compared to Donaldson's net margin of 7.90%. AGCO's return on equity of 28.52% beat Donaldson's return on equity.
Donaldson received 17 more outperform votes than AGCO when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.69% of users gave Donaldson an outperform vote while only 51.83% of users gave AGCO an outperform vote.
78.8% of AGCO shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.8% of Donaldson shares are held by institutional investors. 16.8% of AGCO shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Donaldson shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
AGCO has a beta of 1.32, suggesting that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Donaldson has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
AGCO has higher revenue and earnings than Donaldson. AGCO is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Donaldson, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Donaldson beats AGCO on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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