Toro (NYSE:TTC – Get Free Report) is one of 437 public companies in the “Machinery” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare Toro to related companies based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, earnings, dividends and valuation.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of current ratings and price targets for Toro and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Toro | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2.29 |
| Toro Competitors | 4038 | 14402 | 17783 | 759 | 2.41 |
Toro currently has a consensus price target of $101.75, suggesting a potential upside of 6.91%. As a group, “Machinery” companies have a potential upside of 32.94%. Given Toro’s competitors stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Toro has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.
Volatility & Risk
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Toro and its competitors gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Net Income | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Toro | $4.51 billion | $316.10 million | 27.43 |
| Toro Competitors | $4.45 billion | $345.61 million | -1.60 |
Toro has higher revenue, but lower earnings than its competitors. Toro is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
88.0% of Toro shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.6% of shares of all “Machinery” companies are held by institutional investors. 1.9% of Toro shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.9% of shares of all “Machinery” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Dividends
Toro pays an annual dividend of $1.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Toro pays out 45.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Machinery” companies pay a dividend yield of 2.4% and pay out 27.3% of their earnings in the form of a dividend. Toro has raised its dividend for 21 consecutive years. Toro lags its competitors as a dividend stock, given its lower dividend yield and higher payout ratio.
Profitability
This table compares Toro and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Toro | 7.29% | 31.13% | 12.25% |
| Toro Competitors | -1,938.34% | -13.36% | 0.74% |
Summary
Toro competitors beat Toro on 9 of the 15 factors compared.
Toro Company Profile
The Toro Company designs, manufactures, markets, and sells professional turf maintenance equipment and services. It operates through two segments: Professional and Residential. The Professional segment offers turf and landscape equipment products, including sports fields and grounds mowing and maintenance equipment, golf course mowing and maintenance equipment, landscape contractor mowing equipment, landscape creation and renovation equipment, and other maintenance equipment; rental, specialty, and underground construction equipment, such as horizontal directional drills, walk and ride trenchers, stand-on skid steers, vacuum excavators, stump grinders, turf renovation products, asset locators, pipe rehabilitation solutions, materials handling equipment, and other after-market tools; and snow and ice management equipment, such as snowplows, as well as stand-on snow and ice removal equipment, such as snowplow, snow brush, and snow thrower attachments, salt and sand spreaders, and related parts and accessories for light and medium duty trucks, utility task vehicles, skid steers, and front-end loaders. This segment also provides irrigation and lighting products that consist of sprinkler heads, electric and hydraulic valves, controllers, computer irrigation central control systems, coupling systems, and ag-irrigation drip tape and hose products, as well as professionally installed landscape lighting products offered through distributors and landscape contractors. The Residential segment provides walk power mowers, zero-turn riding mowers, snow throwers, replacement parts, and home solution products that include grass and hedge trimmers, leaf blowers, blower-vacuums, chainsaws, string trimmers, hoses, and hose-end retail irrigation products. It sells its products through a network of distributors, dealers, mass retailers, hardware retailers, equipment rental centers, home centers, and online. The company was founded in 1914 and is headquartered in Bloomington, Minnesota.
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