RYI vs. ZEUS, FSTR, GWAV, RS, TROX, SLVM, CALM, MTX, MP, and CDE
Should you be buying Ryerson stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ryerson include Olympic Steel (ZEUS), L.B. Foster (FSTR), Greenwave Technology Solutions (GWAV), Reliance (RS), Tronox (TROX), Sylvamo (SLVM), Cal-Maine Foods (CALM), Minerals Technologies (MTX), MP Materials (MP), and Coeur Mining (CDE).
Ryerson (NYSE:RYI) and Olympic Steel (NASDAQ:ZEUS) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Ryerson presently has a consensus price target of $28.00, indicating a potential upside of 24.94%. Given Ryerson's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Ryerson is more favorable than Olympic Steel.
Ryerson has higher revenue and earnings than Olympic Steel. Ryerson is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Olympic Steel, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Olympic Steel received 92 more outperform votes than Ryerson when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.26% of users gave Olympic Steel an outperform vote while only 58.06% of users gave Ryerson an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Ryerson and Ryerson both had 3 articles in the media. Olympic Steel's average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat Ryerson's score of 0.35 indicating that Olympic Steel is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
94.8% of Ryerson shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.1% of Olympic Steel shares are held by institutional investors. 3.9% of Ryerson shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.8% of Olympic Steel shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Ryerson pays an annual dividend of $0.75 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Olympic Steel pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Ryerson pays out 29.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Olympic Steel pays out 16.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Olympic Steel has a net margin of 2.05% compared to Ryerson's net margin of 1.84%. Ryerson's return on equity of 10.27% beat Olympic Steel's return on equity.
Ryerson has a beta of 1.62, indicating that its stock price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Olympic Steel has a beta of 1.54, indicating that its stock price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Olympic Steel beats Ryerson on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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