5-Star Stocks Poised to Pop: Titan Machinery
Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, agricultural and construction equipment retailer Titan Machinery (NAS: TITN) has earned a coveted five-star ranking.
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Titan's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Titan facts
Headquarters (Founded) | West Fargo, N.D. (1980) |
Market Cap | $384.8 million |
Industry | Specialty retailer |
Trailing-12-Month Revenue | $1.31 billion |
Management | Founder/Chairman/CEO David Meyer CFO Mark Kalvoda |
Return on Equity (Average, Past 3 Years) | 10.1% |
Cash/Debt | $102.2 million / $530.6 million |
Competitors | Caterpillar (NYS: CAT) CNH Global (NYS: CNH) Deere (NYS: DE) |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 96% of the 466 members who have rated Titan believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bulls include Keekers44 and NHWeston.
Just last month, Keekers44 tapped Titan's recent pullback as a potent buying opportunity:
This company was destroyed by the market with its recent earnings report. The report was actually good. Knee Jerk reaction by market.
In fact, Titan currently trades at a particularly paltry price-to-sales of 0.3. That's a discount to much larger competitors like Caterpillar (1.0), CNH (0.4), and Deere (0.9).
CAPS member NHWeston elaborates on the bargain opportunity:
Titan is a mini-[Caterpillar], involved in construction machinery and services. Or, if you prefer, it's a little Deere, working in agriculture, irrigation, and forestry. Focused in the Mid-West, Titan has most recently bought up several smaller versions of itself like St. Joseph's. At the same time, the company has been adding to its bottomline through flood clean-up support, an area neglected by the major companies it otherwise mirrors. Trading at its low range, it could grow a good 40 percent or get bought up by a rival interested in some of its specialty mechanics.
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