10 U.S. Undervalued Industrial Stocks: Investment Idea of the Day

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Today, we have shortlisted 10 U.S industrial stocks that have reported sales growth in excess of industry’s aggregate sales growth and P/E multiples lower than industry’s aggregate P/E during their trailing twelve month period, which suggests the stocks are undervalued. Moreover, some of these stocks have registered positive price gains during the past one month with daily average trading volumes in excess of 100,000.

Industry’s Aggregate TTM P/E: 17.40

Industry’s Aggregate Sales Growth: 3.80%

Company Name

Ticker

Exchange

Market Cap
(US$ MM)

Last Price

Average Volume
(1 Month)

Price Change
(1-Month)

Trailing Twelve Months P/E

Trailing Twelve Months Sales Growth

China Recycling Energy Corp

CREG

NASDAQ

74.4

1.22

1,083,808

4.7%

3.94

87.5%

Sturm Ruger & Co Inc

RGR

NYSE

961.5

49.52

360,603

1.4%

9.72

13.6%

Vertex Energy Inc

VTNR

NASDAQ

135.0

5.39

365,975

-32.6%

12.03

55.7%

Hornbeck Offshore Services Inc

HOS

NYSE

1,008.5

27.77

896,562

-29.4%

12.30

16.2%

Costamare Inc

CMRE

NYSE

1,412.2

18.88

196,412

-16.2%

12.57

20.8%

American Railcar Industries Inc

ARII

NASDAQ

1,357.8

63.59

240,476

-18.0%

13.65

11.7%

Argan Inc

AGX

NYSE

450.2

31.17

138,663

-13.8%

13.67

16.6%

MasTec Inc

MTZ

NYSE

2,046.0

25.01

991,032

-19.4%

14.35

15.4%

Wesco Aircraft Holdings Inc

WAIR

NYSE

1,706.3

17.60

385,583

0.4%

14.60

34.4%

Aegion Corp

AEGN

NASDAQ

646.4

17.30

350,178

-28.4%

14.66

24.9%

Source: Bloomberg

Company Description

China Recycling Energy Corp (NASDAQ: CREG)
China Recycling Energy Corp. is involved in the recycling energy business. The company, through its subsidiaries, provides environmentally friendly waste-to-energy technologies to recycle industrial by-products such as heat, steam, pressure, and exhaust to generate electricity and reduce the need for outside electrical sources.

Sturm Ruger & Co Inc (NYSE: RGR)
Sturm Ruger & Company Inc. designs, manufactures, sells, and exports firearms. The company produces rifles, shotguns, pistols, and revolvers. The company also manufactures titanium and ferrous investment castings utilized in a wide variety of markets including sporting goods and other military uses.

Vertex Energy Inc (NASDAQ: VTNR)
Vertex Energy Inc. is a middle market consolidator, refiner and re-refiner of distressed petroleum streams, such as used oil, transmix, fuel oils and off-specification commercial chemical products.

Hornbeck Offshore Services Inc (NYSE: HOS)
Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc. provides marine transportation services to the offshore oil and gas industry. The company owns and operates deepwater offshore supply vessels in the Gulf of Mexico, which support day-to-day operations of oil drilling rigs and production platforms. Hornbeck also owns and operates ocean going tugs and barges in the northeastern United States and Puerto Rico.

Costamare Inc (NYSE: CMRE)
Costamare, Inc. owns container ships. The company charters its vessels to shipping companies.

American Railcar Industries Inc (NASDAQ: ARII)
American Railcar Industries, Inc. manufactures railroad rolling stock. The company produces and repairs covered hopper and tank railcars, and offers fleet management services. American Railcar markets its products to companies that lease the cars to third parties, shippers, and railroads.

Argan Inc (NYSE: AGX)
Argan, Inc., through its subsidiary, designs and builds energy plants. The company’s energy plants include traditional gas as well as alternative energy including biodiesel, ethanol, and renewable energy sources such as wind power and solar.

MasTec Inc (NYSE: MTZ)
MasTec Inc. is a specialty contractor operating across a range of industries. The companys activities are the building, installation, maintenance and upgrade of utility and communications infrastructure, including electrical utility transmission and distribution, windfarms, solar farms, other renewable energy and natural gas infrastructure, wireless, wireline, etc.

Wesco Aircraft Holdings Inc (NYSE: WAIR)
Wesco Aircraft Holdings, Inc. provides supply chain management services to the global aerospace industry. The company also provides hardware, bearings, tools, electronic components, and machined parts. Wesco’s services include just-in-time delivery, long-term agreements, management of supplier relationships, inventory management, quality assurance, and kitting.

Aegion Corp (NASDAQ: AEGN)
Aegion Corp. provides technologies and services to protect, rehabilitate, strengthen, and extend the life of infrastructure assets including pipelines, bridges, buildings and waterfront structures. The company provide a variety of infrastructure solutions to the energy and mining, commercial and structural, and water and wastewater markets.

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