Gencor Industries (NASDAQ:GENC – Get Free Report) and Albany International (NYSE:AIN – Get Free Report) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings and risk.
Profitability
This table compares Gencor Industries and Albany International’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% |
| Albany International | -4.18% | 10.76% | 4.64% |
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Gencor Industries and Albany International”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Gencor Industries | $110.01 million | 2.35 | $14.67 million | $1.16 | 15.20 |
| Albany International | $1.18 billion | 1.43 | -$57.34 million | ($1.74) | -34.14 |
Gencor Industries has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Albany International. Albany International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gencor Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Volatility & Risk
Gencor Industries has a beta of 0.54, indicating that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Albany International has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
97.4% of Albany International shares are owned by institutional investors. 30.4% of Gencor Industries shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Albany International shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Gencor Industries and Albany International, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Gencor Industries | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3.00 |
| Albany International | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1.80 |
Gencor Industries currently has a consensus target price of $19.30, suggesting a potential upside of 9.47%. Albany International has a consensus target price of $61.00, suggesting a potential upside of 2.70%. Given Gencor Industries’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Gencor Industries is more favorable than Albany International.
Summary
Gencor Industries beats Albany International on 11 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 Albany International
Albany International Corp., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the machine clothing and engineered composites businesses. The company operates in two segments, Machine Clothing (MC) and Albany Engineered Composites (AEC). The MC segment designs, manufactures, and markets paper machine clothing for use in the manufacturing of papers, paperboards, tissues, towels, pulps, nonwovens, building products, tannery, and textiles, as well as fiber cement and several other industrial applications. This segment offers paper machine clothing forming, pressing, and drying fabrics, as well as engineered processing belts; and engineered fabrics. The AEC segment 3D-woven and injected composite components for aircraft engines composite airframe and engine components for military and commercial aircraft. It operates in the United States, Switzerland, France, Brazil, China, Mexico, Germany, and internationally. The company was incorporated in 1895 and is headquartered in Rochester, New Hampshire.
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