Enpro (NYSE:NPO – Get Free Report) and Gencor Industries (NASDAQ:GENC – Get Free Report) are both industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Risk & Volatility
Enpro has a beta of 1.55, indicating that its share price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gencor Industries has a beta of 0.54, indicating that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares Enpro and Gencor Industries’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Enpro | 3.60% | 11.83% | 7.10% |
| Gencor Industries | 14.33% | 8.60% | 8.01% |
Analyst Recommendations
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Enpro | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2.60 |
| Gencor Industries | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3.00 |
Enpro currently has a consensus price target of $358.33, suggesting a potential upside of 15.01%. Gencor Industries has a consensus price target of $19.30, suggesting a potential upside of 12.14%. Given Enpro’s higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Enpro is more favorable than Gencor Industries.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
98.3% of Enpro shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of Enpro shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 30.4% of Gencor Industries shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Enpro and Gencor Industries”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Enpro | $1.14 billion | 5.77 | $40.50 million | $2.05 | 151.99 |
| Gencor Industries | $110.01 million | 2.29 | $14.67 million | $1.16 | 14.84 |
Enpro has higher revenue and earnings than Gencor Industries. Gencor Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Enpro, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Enpro beats Gencor Industries on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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.
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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