Art’s-Way Manufacturing (ARTW) and Its Competitors Head-To-Head Survey

Art’s-Way Manufacturing (NASDAQ:ARTW) is one of 437 public companies in the “Machinery” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare Art’s-Way Manufacturing to similar businesses based on the strength of its valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, earnings and profitability.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

2.9% of Art’s-Way Manufacturing shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.6% of shares of all “Machinery” companies are held by institutional investors. 51.5% of Art’s-Way Manufacturing shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.0% of shares of all “Machinery” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Art’s-Way Manufacturing and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Art’s-Way Manufacturing	-0.08%	-0.16%	-0.10%
Art’s-Way Manufacturing Competitors	-1,937.17%	-13.11%	0.74%

Risk & Volatility

Art’s-Way Manufacturing has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Art’s-Way Manufacturing’s competitors have a beta of 4.49, indicating that their average share price is 349% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Dividends

Art’s-Way Manufacturing pays an annual dividend of $0.05 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Art’s-Way Manufacturing pays out -500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Machinery” companies pay a dividend yield of 2.3% and pay out 27.3% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Art’s-Way Manufacturing and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Art’s-Way Manufacturing	1	0	0	0	1.00
Art’s-Way Manufacturing Competitors	4053	14444	17854	767	2.41

As a group, “Machinery” companies have a potential upside of 24.82%. Given Art’s-Way Manufacturing’s competitors stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Art’s-Way Manufacturing has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Art’s-Way Manufacturing and its competitors gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Art’s-Way Manufacturing	$25.99 million	$1.03 million	-287.00
Art’s-Way Manufacturing Competitors	$4.49 billion	$346.97 million	-14.12

Art’s-Way Manufacturing’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Art’s-Way Manufacturing. Art’s-Way Manufacturing is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Summary

Art’s-Way Manufacturing competitors beat Art’s-Way Manufacturing on 11 of the 15 factors compared.

About Art’s-Way Manufacturing

Art’s-Way Manufacturing Co., Inc. manufactures and distributes farm equipment products. It operates through the Agricultural Products, and Modular Buildings segments. The Agricultural Products segment manufactures a variety of specialized farm machinery under its own label including portable and stationary animal feed processing equipment and related attachments used to mill and mix feed grains into custom animal feed rations, a line of forage equipment consisting of forage boxes, bale processors, running gear, and dump boxes, a line of manure spreaders, sugar beet harvesting equipment, and a line of dirt work equipment. The Modular Buildings segment produces and sells modular buildings, which are custom designed to meet the specific research needs of its customers. It also provides services relating to the design, manufacturing, delivery, installation and renting of the building units that it produces. The company was founded by Arthur Luscombe in 1956 and is headquartered in Armstrong, IA.