Gencor Industries (GENC) vs. Its Competitors Head to Head Analysis

Gencor Industries (NASDAQ:GENC – Get Free Report) is one of 437 public companies in the “Machinery” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare Gencor Industries to related companies based on the strength of its risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, valuation, dividends and institutional ownership.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings for Gencor Industries and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.

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Gencor Industries presently has a consensus price target of $17.60, suggesting a potential upside of 10.00%. As a group, “Machinery” companies have a potential upside of 24.84%. Given Gencor Industries’ peers higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Gencor Industries has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Profitability

This table compares Gencor Industries and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

52.6% of shares of all “Machinery” companies are owned by institutional investors. 30.4% of Gencor Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.0% of shares of all “Machinery” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Gencor Industries and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

Gencor Industries’ peers have higher revenue and earnings than Gencor Industries. Gencor Industries is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Volatility and Risk

Gencor Industries has a beta of 0.49, suggesting that its share price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gencor Industries’ peers have a beta of 4.49, suggesting that their average share price is 349% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Gencor Industries beats its peers on 8 of the 13 factors compared.

About Gencor Industries

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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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