Gencor Industries (NASDAQ:GENC – Get Free Report) is one of 435 public companies in the “Machinery” industry, but how does it compare to its rivals? We will compare Gencor Industries to related businesses based on the strength of its earnings, valuation, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and dividends.
Profitability
This table compares Gencor Industries and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Gencor Industries | 14.33% | 8.60% | 8.01% |
| Gencor Industries Competitors | -1,947.44% | -10.16% | 0.86% |
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of current ratings and target prices for Gencor Industries and its rivals, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Gencor Industries | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3.50 |
| Gencor Industries Competitors | 4075 | 14463 | 17878 | 777 | 2.41 |
Institutional and Insider Ownership
52.2% of shares of all “Machinery” companies are owned by institutional investors. 30.4% of Gencor Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.9% of shares of all “Machinery” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Gencor Industries and its rivals gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Net Income | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Gencor Industries | $110.01 million | $14.67 million | 16.45 |
| Gencor Industries Competitors | $4.53 billion | $346.50 million | -11.94 |
Gencor Industries’ rivals have higher revenue and earnings than Gencor Industries. Gencor Industries is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its rivals, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.
Risk and Volatility
Gencor Industries has a beta of 0.49, indicating that its stock price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gencor Industries’ rivals have a beta of 4.52, indicating that their average stock price is 352% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Gencor Industries beats its rivals on 8 of the 13 factors compared.
Gencor Industries Company Profile
Gencor Industries, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and sells heavy machinery used in the production of highway construction materials and environmental control equipment. It offers hot-mix asphalt plants to produce asphalt paving materials; related asphalt plant equipment, including hot-mix storage silos, fabric filtration systems, cold feed bins, and other plant components; and a range of mobile batch plants. The company also provides combustion systems that transform solid, liquid, or gaseous fuels into usable energy, or burn multiple fuels in asphalt and aggregate drying industries; and combustion systems for rotary dryers, kilns, fume and liquid incinerators, and fuel heaters, as well as industrial incinerators. In addition, it offers thermal fluid heat transfer systems that transfer heat for storage, heating, and pumping viscous materials, such as asphalt, chemicals, heavy oils, etc. in various industrial and petrochemical applications; specialty storage tanks for various industrial uses; and asphalt pavers under the Blaw-Knox brand. The company sells its products primarily to the highway construction industry through its sales representatives, and independent dealers and agents worldwide. The company was formerly known as Mechtron International Corporation and changed its name to Gencor Industries, Inc. in 1987. Gencor Industries, Inc. was founded in 1894 and is based in Orlando, Florida.
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