Comparing Gencor Industries (GENC) & Its Competitors

Gencor Industries (NASDAQ:GENC) is one of 437 publicly-traded companies in the “Machinery” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare Gencor Industries to similar businesses based on the strength of its valuation, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends and analyst recommendations.

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 insiders. Comparatively, 13.9% of shares of all “Machinery” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Gencor Industries and its competitors’ 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	-1,938.53%	-13.31%	0.72%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Gencor Industries and its competitors top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Gencor Industries	$103.19 million	$14.67 million	14.15
Gencor Industries Competitors	$4.45 billion	$345.61 million	-1.26

Gencor Industries’ competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Gencor Industries. Gencor Industries 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.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Gencor Industries and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Gencor Industries	0	0	1	1	3.50
Gencor Industries Competitors	4041	14413	17797	760	2.41

Gencor Industries currently has a consensus price target of $17.60, indicating a potential upside of 20.80%. As a group, “Machinery” companies have a potential upside of 25.75%. Given Gencor Industries’ competitors higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Gencor Industries has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Risk and Volatility

Gencor Industries has a beta of 0.48, meaning that its share price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gencor Industries’ competitors have a beta of 4.48, meaning that their average share price is 348% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Gencor Industries beats its competitors 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.