Contrasting Gencor Industries (GENC) and Its Peers

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

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	-1,937.17%	-13.11%	0.74%

Institutional & 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, 14.0% of shares of all “Machinery” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings 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	4053	14444	17854	767	2.41

Gencor Industries currently has a consensus target price 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’ competitors higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Gencor Industries has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Risk and Volatility

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’ competitors have a beta of 4.49, suggesting that their average share price is 349% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Gencor Industries and its competitors revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Gencor Industries	$103.19 million	$14.67 million	15.53
Gencor Industries Competitors	$4.49 billion	$346.97 million	-14.12

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.

Summary

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

About Gencor Industries

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.