Reviewing Vossloh (VOSSF) & Its Competitors

Vossloh (OTCMKTS:VOSSF) is one of 102 public companies in the “Ground Transportation” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its peers? We will compare Vossloh to related businesses based on the strength of its earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership and risk.

Profitability

This table compares Vossloh and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Vossloh	N/A	N/A	N/A
Vossloh Competitors	5.39%	9.39%	3.79%

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Vossloh and its peers revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Vossloh	N/A	N/A	-5.24
Vossloh Competitors	$8.60 billion	$895.12 million	51.43

Vossloh’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than Vossloh. Vossloh is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

33.5% of Vossloh shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.6% of shares of all “Ground Transportation” companies are held by institutional investors. 15.5% of shares of all “Ground Transportation” companies are held 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.

Dividends

Vossloh pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Vossloh pays out -3.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Ground Transportation” companies pay a dividend yield of 1.4% and pay out 27.8% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings for Vossloh and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Vossloh	0	1	0	0	2.00
Vossloh Competitors	1335	6322	8406	251	2.46

As a group, “Ground Transportation” companies have a potential upside of 12.65%. Given Vossloh’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Vossloh has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Summary

Vossloh peers beat Vossloh on 12 of the 13 factors compared.

Vossloh Company Profile

Vossloh AG provides rail infrastructure products and services in Germany and internationally. It operates through three divisions: Core Components, Customized Modules, and Lifecycle Solutions. The Core Components division develops, produces, and markets rail fastening systems for heavy-haul and high-speed lines, as well as urban transport applications. This division also manufactures concrete ties, switch ties, and concrete elements for slab tracks and level crossing systems. Its Customized Modules division manufactures, installs, and maintains switches and crossings, as well as related control and monitoring systems for light-rail and high-speed applications. The Lifecycle Solutions division engages in rail trading, long-rail unloading at construction sites, welding new rails, reconditioning old rails, on-site welding, rail replacement, rail grinding/milling, rail inspection, and construction site supervision activities. This division also organizes and monitors rail shipments to construction sites; and enables on-site availability of the unloading systems. The company was founded in 1883 and is headquartered in Werdohl, Germany.