Art’s-Way Manufacturing (ARTW) and Its Peers Critical Comparison

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

Earnings and Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Art’s-Way Manufacturing	$22.98 million	$1.03 million	-219.00
Art’s-Way Manufacturing Competitors	$4.45 billion	$345.47 million	0.22

Art’s-Way Manufacturing’s rivals 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 rivals, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Art’s-Way Manufacturing and its rivals, as reported 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	4050	14436	17843	767	2.41

As a group, “Machinery” companies have a potential upside of 24.16%. Given Art’s-Way Manufacturing’s rivals stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Art’s-Way Manufacturing has less favorable growth aspects than its rivals.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

2.9% of Art’s-Way Manufacturing shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.6% of shares of all “Machinery” companies are owned by institutional investors. 51.5% of Art’s-Way Manufacturing shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.8% of shares of all “Machinery” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk & Volatility

Art’s-Way Manufacturing has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Art’s-Way Manufacturing’s rivals have a beta of 4.36, suggesting that their average stock price is 336% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Art’s-Way Manufacturing and its rivals’ 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	-1,937.72%	-13.27%	0.73%

Summary

Art’s-Way Manufacturing rivals beat Art’s-Way Manufacturing on 10 of the 13 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.