XOS (NASDAQ:XOS – Get Free Report) and AGCO (NYSE:AGCO – Get Free Report) are both industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership and risk.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for XOS and AGCO, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| XOS | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.50 |
| AGCO | 3 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 2.14 |
AGCO has a consensus target price of $122.17, indicating a potential upside of 1.25%. Given AGCO’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe AGCO is more favorable than XOS.
Earnings and Valuation
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| XOS | $37.69 million | 0.98 | -$25.32 million | ($1.62) | -1.60 |
| AGCO | $10.35 billion | 0.82 | $726.50 million | $7.23 | 16.69 |
AGCO has higher revenue and earnings than XOS. XOS is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AGCO, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
12.9% of XOS shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.8% of AGCO shares are held by institutional investors. 20.7% of XOS shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of AGCO shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Risk and Volatility
XOS has a beta of 1.87, suggesting that its share price is 87% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AGCO has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares XOS and AGCO’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| XOS | -51.68% | -80.31% | -32.05% |
| AGCO | 5.15% | 10.09% | 3.58% |
Summary
AGCO beats XOS on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About XOS
Xos, Inc. is an electric mobility company engaged in manufacturing electric trucks. The firm designs and develops fully electric battery mobility systems specifically for commercial fleets. The company was founded by Dakota Semler and Giordano Sordoni on July 29, 2020 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.
About AGCO
AGCO Corporation manufactures and distributes agricultural equipment and related replacement parts worldwide. It offers horsepower tractors for row crop production, soil cultivation, planting, land leveling, seeding, and commercial hay operations; utility tractors for small- and medium-sized farms, as well as for dairy, livestock, orchards, and vineyards; and compact tractors for small farms, specialty agricultural industries, landscaping, equestrian, and residential uses. The company also provides grain storage bins and related drying and handling equipment systems; seed-processing systems; swine and poultry feed storage and delivery; ventilation and watering systems; and egg production systems and broiler production equipment. In addition, it offers round and rectangular balers, loader wagons, self-propelled windrowers, forage harvesters, disc mowers, spreaders, rakes, tedders, and mower conditioners for harvesting and packaging vegetative feeds used in the beef cattle, dairy, horse, and renewable fuel industries. Further, the company provides implements, including disc harrows leveling seed beds and mixing chemicals with the soils; heavy tillage to break up soil and mix crop residue into topsoil; field cultivators that prepare smooth seed bed and destroy weeds; drills for small grain seeding; planters and other planting equipment; and loaders. Additionally, it offers combines for harvesting grain crops, such as corn, wheat, soybeans, and rice; and application equipment, such as self-propelled, three- and four-wheeled vehicles, and related equipment for liquid and dry fertilizers and crop protection chemicals, and for after crops emerge from the ground, as well as produces diesel engines, gears, and generating sets. The company markets its products under the Fendt, GSI, Massey Ferguson, Precision Planting, and Valtra brands through a network of independent dealers and distributors. AGCO Corporation was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Duluth, Georgia.
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