Albany International (NYSE:AIN – Get Free Report) and Gencor Industries (NASDAQ:GENC – Get Free Report) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
97.4% of Albany International shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Albany International shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 30.4% of Gencor Industries shares are owned by 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.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Albany International and Gencor Industries”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Albany International | $1.18 billion | 1.42 | -$57.34 million | ($1.74) | -33.98 |
| Gencor Industries | $110.01 million | 2.31 | $14.67 million | $1.16 | 14.96 |
Gencor Industries has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
Profitability
This table compares Albany International and Gencor Industries’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Albany International | -4.18% | 10.76% | 4.64% |
| Gencor Industries | 14.33% | 8.60% | 8.01% |
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Albany International and Gencor Industries, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Albany International | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1.80 |
| Gencor Industries | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3.00 |
Albany International currently has a consensus price target of $61.00, suggesting a potential upside of 3.17%. Gencor Industries has a consensus price target of $19.30, suggesting a potential upside of 11.24%. Given Gencor Industries’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Gencor Industries is more favorable than Albany International.
Risk and Volatility
Albany International has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gencor Industries has a beta of 0.54, suggesting that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Gencor Industries beats Albany International on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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.
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.
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