Reviewing Palfinger (OTCMKTS:PLFRY) and Ag Growth International (OTCMKTS:AGGZF)

Ag Growth International (OTCMKTS:AGGZF) and Palfinger (OTCMKTS:PLFRY) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, risk, profitability and dividends.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Ag Growth International and Palfinger, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Ag Growth International	0	0	2	0	3.00
Palfinger	0	0	0	0	0.00

Ag Growth International presently has a consensus price target of $62.00, indicating a potential upside of 155.67%. Given Ag Growth International’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Ag Growth International is more favorable than Palfinger.

Dividends

Ag Growth International pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. Palfinger pays an annual dividend of $0.29 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Ag Growth International pays out 77.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Palfinger pays out 25.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Profitability

This table compares Ag Growth International and Palfinger’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Ag Growth International	N/A	N/A	N/A
Palfinger	N/A	N/A	N/A

Insider and Institutional Ownership

56.8% of Ag Growth International shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.2% of Palfinger shares are held by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Ag Growth International and Palfinger”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Ag Growth International	N/A	N/A	N/A	$1.80	13.44
Palfinger	N/A	N/A	N/A	$1.17	24.71

Ag Growth International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Palfinger, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Ag Growth International beats Palfinger on 6 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Ag Growth International

Ag Growth International Inc., together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells equipment for the agriculture industry in Canada, the United States, and internationally. It operates through Farm and Commercial segments. The company offers grain, bolted, hopper, and smooth wall bins; temporary storage; unloads and sweeps systems; water tanks; secondary containment systems; fuel tanks; and storage accessories, as well as mixed flow dryers; fans and heaters; aeration products; vents and exhausters; and stirring systems. It also provides portable handling equipment, such as augers, conveyors, grain vacs, post pounders, seed treaters, and related accessories; permanent handling equipment, such as bucket elevators, chain and belt conveyors, distributors, feed handling, screw feeders and conveyors, and spouts and connectors. In addition, the company offers towers, catwalks, and ladders, as well as all-steel buildings; batch blenders, bulk scales, declining weight blenders, vertical blenders, micro-dosing systems, mixers, and milling equipment; and controllers, hazard monitoring, and monitoring and automation equipment. Its products are used in port facilities, inland grain terminals, corporate farms, fertilizer distribution sites, ethanol production, oilseed crushing, commercial feed mills, rice mills, and flour mills. The company serves farmers, agribusinesses, grain handlers, regional cooperatives, contractors, food and animal feed manufacturers, and fertilizer blenders and distributors. Ag Growth International Inc. was founded in 1996 and is based in Winnipeg, Canada.

About Palfinger

Palfinger AG produces and sells crane and lifting solutions worldwide. It offers loader cranes, timber and recycling cranes, knuckle boom cranes, telescopic cranes, stiff boom cranes, winches and offshore equipment, offshore cranes, davit systems, boats, wind cranes, hooklifts, access platforms, tail lifts, passenger lifts, mobile cranes, truck mounted forklifts, railway systems, rope access, bridge inspection units, skiploaders, and lifesaving equipment. The company also provides contract manufacturing services. It serves construction and infrastructure, transport and logistics, railways, waste management and recycling, forestry, state institutions, offshore, wind, cruise, navy and coast guard, aquaculture and fisheries, and trade and transport industries. The company provides its products and services through a network of approximately 5,000 service centers in 130 countries; and 200 independent general importers. Palfinger AG was founded in 1932 and is headquartered in Bergheim, Austria. Palfinger AG is a subsidiary of The Palfinger Family.