Why Are AGCO Shares Falling Today?

This afternoon we watched AGCO drop -6.9% to a price of $117.94 per share. The mid-cap Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery company is now trading -23.44% below its average target price of $154.06. Analysts have set target prices ranging from $122.0 to $185.0 per share for AGCO, and have given the stock an average rating of buy.

The stock has a very low short interest at 1.7%, and a short ratio of 1.5. Since 16.68% of the company's shares are owned by insiders, we can infer that there is a degree of alignment between management and shareholder interests. Finally, we also note that a significant number of institutional investors are invested in the stock, with 82.6% of AGCO's shares being owned by this investor type.

Institutions Invested in AGCO

Date Reported Holder Percentage Shares Value
2022-12-31 Blackrock Inc. 9% 6,955,636 $820,382,485
2022-12-31 Vanguard Group, Inc. (The) 9% 6,622,963 $781,145,369
2022-12-31 Victory Capital Management Inc. 4% 3,260,006 $384,501,406
2022-12-31 Lsv Asset Management 4% 3,198,276 $377,220,661
2022-12-31 Nordea Investment Management AB 3% 2,006,159 $236,616,422
2022-12-31 Dimensional Fund Advisors LP 3% 1,997,754 $235,625,094
2022-12-31 State Street Corporation 2% 1,734,385 $204,562,038
2022-12-31 FMR, LLC 2% 1,260,097 $148,622,140
2022-12-31 Morgan Stanley 1% 1,050,000 $123,842,249
2022-12-31 Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Company 1% 970,823 $114,503,718
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