Verdict: Side-by-side breakdown using the Bull Rankings model. AGCO scored 53.7, BLBD scored 73.2 — BLBD leads.
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AGCO
AGCO Corporation
Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery · Quality-Growth
53.7
$103.28 · $7.2B
fundamentals as of
Score gap
19.5
BLBD leads
BLBD
Blue Bird Corporation
Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery · Quality-Growth
73.2
$56.29 · $1.9B
fundamentals as of
At a glance · who leads each dimension, on the model's own rules
CheapestBLBD6.6x
Fastest growthBLBD+13.5%
Strongest balance sheetBLBD0.18
Highest qualityBLBD86 / 100
Largest discount to fair valueBLBD-12%
Side by side · every name on one set of axes
Growth against the P/E multiple. Up and to the right is cheaper and faster — the quality-growth idea in one picture. Points beyond the axis are pinned to the edge and marked off-scale rather than allowed to compress everything else.
The model, pillar by pillar (0–100 each)
AGCO
stronger →← stronger
BLBD
56
Qualityreturns · margins · balance sheet
86
41
Growthrevenue & earnings expansion
50
67
Valuevaluation vs sector peers
92
BLBD is stronger on 3 of 3 pillars.
Fundamentals, head-to-head
AGCO
BLBD
$330mC
FCF
$153mC
-13.5%D
Rev
+13.5%B+
0.66B
D/E
0.18A-
14.9xA-
P/E
6.6xA
0.86B+
PEG
—
Winner per row is the stronger grade; where grades tie, the better figure breaks it. A true tie or a missing value shows no highlight.
Valuation · DCF cross-check
AGCO
BLBD
63% above
Price vs fair valuelower is cheaper
12% below
~15%/yr
Growth the price impliesyr-1 FCF growth, fading to 4% · lower = less priced in
~6%/yr
-37%
1-yr DCF upside
+1%
-39%
5-yr DCF upside
+14%
-41%
10-yr DCF upside
+34%
The DCF is a cross-check on intrinsic value, separate from the quality-growth score above.
Model signals
AGCO
Why this score
Buying back stock
BLBD
Why this score
Durable high returns
Cyclical growth
The companies
AGCOAGCO Corporation
Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery · $103.28 · beta 1.07
Why now
Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery · market cap $7.2b. Down 28% from 52-week high of $143.78 — deep drawdown territory. Revenue -14% — in contraction; any catalyst that reverses this triggers re-rating. PEG 0.86 — paying under fair value for the growth rate. 15 sell-side analysts rate this a Buy with a mean 1-yr target of $125.87 (implying +22% upside).
Moat
ROE 12% meets the long-run market sustainable threshold — solid but not differentiated; the durability comes from elsewhere.
Risk
Revenue contracting -14% — the operational turn is not yet visible in the top line.
BLBDBlue Bird Corporation
Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery · $56.29 · beta 1.36
Why now
Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery · market cap $1.9b. Down 32% from 52-week high of $83.39 — deep drawdown territory. Revenue growing +13%, comfortably above the S&P median. 8 sell-side analysts rate this a Strong Buy with a mean 1-yr target of $89.13 (implying +58% upside).
Moat
Net margin 17% beats the market median by a meaningful margin — the company is keeping more of every revenue dollar than the average S&P constituent. ROE 43% — top-decile capital efficiency. Either pricing leverage, low capital intensity, or aggressive buybacks; the durability story depends on which.
Risk
Down 32% from the 52-week high — the market is pricing in something the screen can't see; verify the bear case before sizing up.
Verdict — model-derived comparison
Generating verdict… typically 5–10 seconds
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Where AGCO and BLBD diverge
On the headline score the gap is 19.5 points in favor of BLBD. The widest single difference is Quality, where BLBD leads by 30.1 points.
QualityAGCO 55.7 · BLBD 85.8BLBD +30.1
ValueAGCO 67.0 · BLBD 91.6BLBD +24.6
GrowthAGCO 41.4 · BLBD 50.0BLBD +8.6
Pillars run 0–100. Value is judged against each company's own sector, so a Value score is a statement about a company relative to its own industry rather than to the other name here. A wide Value gap usually means the market already prices the difference in quality or growth — which is the trade-off this comparison comes down to.
Common questions
Is BLBD or AGCO the better stock?
BLBD scores higher: BLBD 73.2, AGCO 53.7 out of 100 on the Bull Rankings quality-growth score, which blends business quality, growth and valuation into one number. A higher score means a stronger business at a more reasonable price — it is not a price target or a recommendation.
Where do BLBD and AGCO differ most?
The widest gap is quality, where BLBD leads by 30 points on the 0–100 pillar scale. BLBD leads all three pillars, so the gap is broad rather than a single-measure difference.
How are BLBD and AGCO scored?
Each carries the same 0–100 quality-growth score used everywhere on the site, built from three pillars — quality (profitability and returns on capital), growth (revenue and earnings), and value (what you pay for them) — combined as a geometric mean, so a weak pillar cannot be papered over by a strong one.
How current is this comparison?
The whole universe is re-scored every trading day after the US market close, so the scores and fundamentals here reflect the latest published edition.