Ag Growth International (OTCMKTS:AGGZF) vs. Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science and Technology (OTCMKTS:ZLIOY) Financial Survey

Ag Growth International (OTCMKTS:AGGZF) and Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science and Technology (OTCMKTS:ZLIOY) are both industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and valuation.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Ag Growth International and Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science and Technology, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Ag Growth International	0	1	1	0	2.50
Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science and Technology	0	0	0	0	0.00

Ag Growth International presently has a consensus target price of $62.00, suggesting a potential upside of 149.50%. Given Ag Growth International’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Ag Growth International is more favorable than Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science and Technology.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Ag Growth International and Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science and Technology”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Ag Growth International	N/A	N/A	N/A	$1.80	13.78
Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science and Technology	N/A	N/A	N/A	$1.37	5.08

Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science and Technology is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ag Growth International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

56.8% of Ag Growth International shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.0% of Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science and Technology shares are held by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Ag Growth International and Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science and Technology’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Ag Growth International	N/A	N/A	N/A
Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science and Technology	N/A	N/A	N/A

Dividends

Ag Growth International pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.6%. Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science and Technology pays an annual dividend of $1.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 18.0%. Ag Growth International pays out 77.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science and Technology pays out 91.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Summary

Ag Growth International beats Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science and Technology on 7 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Ag Growth International

Ag Growth International Inc., together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells equipment for the agriculture industry in Canada, the United States, and internationally. It operates through Farm and Commercial segments. The company offers grain, bolted, hopper, and smooth wall bins; temporary storage; unloads and sweeps systems; water tanks; secondary containment systems; fuel tanks; and storage accessories, as well as mixed flow dryers; fans and heaters; aeration products; vents and exhausters; and stirring systems. It also provides portable handling equipment, such as augers, conveyors, grain vacs, post pounders, seed treaters, and related accessories; permanent handling equipment, such as bucket elevators, chain and belt conveyors, distributors, feed handling, screw feeders and conveyors, and spouts and connectors. In addition, the company offers towers, catwalks, and ladders, as well as all-steel buildings; batch blenders, bulk scales, declining weight blenders, vertical blenders, micro-dosing systems, mixers, and milling equipment; and controllers, hazard monitoring, and monitoring and automation equipment. Its products are used in port facilities, inland grain terminals, corporate farms, fertilizer distribution sites, ethanol production, oilseed crushing, commercial feed mills, rice mills, and flour mills. The company serves farmers, agribusinesses, grain handlers, regional cooperatives, contractors, food and animal feed manufacturers, and fertilizer blenders and distributors. Ag Growth International Inc. was founded in 1996 and is based in Winnipeg, Canada.

About Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science and Technology

Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science and Technology Co., Ltd. engages in the research, development, manufacture, and sale of construction and agricultural machinery in the People's Republic of China and internationally. The company operates through three segments: New Digital, New Materials, and New Energy. It offers mini, small, medium, and large excavator; bulldozer, and skid steer and crawler loaders; truck, crawler, rough-terrain, all terrain, and telescopic crawler cranes; and luffing-jib tower and flat top tower cranes; and truck mounted pumps, truck mixer, trailer pumps, placing booms, city pumps, and batching pumps. The company provides wheeled tractors, combine and sugarcane harvesters, baler, and grain dryers; internal combustion and electric forklift; and micro, rough terrain, crawler, diesel and electric articulating, rough terrain electric articulating boom, spider, diesel telescopic boom, and electric telescopic boom scissor lifts, as well as DC/DC-Li, HD/HD-Li, and AC/AC-Li scissor series. In addition, the company mining drills, mining dumps trucks, mining excavators, and crushing and screening equipment; rotary drilling rigs, hydraulic plie pressing machines, hydraulic diaphragm wall grab, full rotary casting drill, and trench cuttler. The company was formerly known as Changsha Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science and Technology Development Co., Ltd. and changed its name to Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science and Technology Co., Ltd. in October 2011. Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science and Technology Co., Ltd. was founded in 1992 and is based in Changsha, the People's Republic of China.