Gencor Industries (NASDAQ:GENC – Get Free Report) and Enpro (NYSE:NPO – Get Free Report) are both industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings and profitability.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Gencor Industries and Enpro”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Gencor Industries | $110.01 million | 2.29 | $14.67 million | $1.16 | 14.84 |
| Enpro | $1.14 billion | 5.77 | $40.50 million | $2.05 | 151.99 |
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of current ratings and price targets for Gencor Industries and Enpro, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Gencor Industries | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3.00 |
| Enpro | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2.60 |
Gencor Industries currently has a consensus price target of $19.30, suggesting a potential upside of 12.14%. Enpro has a consensus price target of $358.33, suggesting a potential upside of 15.01%. Given Enpro’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Enpro is more favorable than Gencor Industries.
Profitability
This table compares Gencor Industries and Enpro’s 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% |
| Enpro | 3.60% | 11.83% | 7.10% |
Institutional & Insider Ownership
98.3% of Enpro shares are held by institutional investors. 30.4% of Gencor Industries shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Enpro shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Risk and Volatility
Gencor Industries has a beta of 0.54, suggesting that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Enpro has a beta of 1.55, suggesting that its share price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Enpro beats Gencor Industries on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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.
About Enpro
Enpro Inc. design, develops, manufactures, and markets proprietary, value-added products and solutions to safeguard critical environments in the United States, Europe, and internationally. It operates through two segments, Sealing Technologies and Advanced Surface Technologies. The Sealing Technologies segment offers single-use hygienic seals, tubing, components and assemblies; metallic, non-metallic, and composite material gaskets; dynamic seals; compression packing; hydraulic components; expansion joints; and wall penetration products for chemical and petrochemical processing, pulp and paper processing, nuclear energy, hydrogen, natural gas, food and biopharmaceutical processing, primary metal manufacturing, mining, water and waste treatment, commercial vehicle, aerospace, medical, filtration, and semiconductor fabrication industries. The Advanced Surface Technologies segment offers cleaning, coating, testing, refurbishment, and verification services for critical components and assemblies used in semiconductor manufacturing equipment, as well as for critical applications in the space, aerospace, and defense markets; and specialized optical filters and thin-film coatings for various applications in the industrial technology, life sciences, and semiconductor markets. The company was formerly known as EnPro Industries, Inc. and changed its name to Enpro Inc. in December 2023. Enpro Inc. was incorporated in 2002 and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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