FSTR vs. ZEUS, RYI, TRS, CMCO, GRC, PRLB, ERII, OFLX, GHM, and BOOM
Should you be buying L.B. Foster stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of L.B. Foster include Olympic Steel (ZEUS), Ryerson (RYI), TriMas (TRS), Columbus McKinnon (CMCO), Gorman-Rupp (GRC), Proto Labs (PRLB), Energy Recovery (ERII), Omega Flex (OFLX), Graham (GHM), and DMC Global (BOOM).
Olympic Steel (NASDAQ:ZEUS) and L.B. Foster (NASDAQ:FSTR) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings and dividends.
Olympic Steel has higher revenue and earnings than L.B. Foster. Olympic Steel is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than L.B. Foster, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
L.B. Foster has a consensus target price of $27.00, suggesting a potential upside of 2.90%. Given Olympic Steel's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe L.B. Foster is more favorable than Olympic Steel.
87.1% of Olympic Steel shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.6% of L.B. Foster shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.8% of Olympic Steel shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.2% of L.B. Foster shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Olympic Steel has a beta of 1.54, indicating that its stock price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, L.B. Foster has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Olympic Steel received 134 more outperform votes than L.B. Foster when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.26% of users gave Olympic Steel an outperform vote while only 56.81% of users gave L.B. Foster an outperform vote.
Olympic Steel has a net margin of 2.05% compared to Olympic Steel's net margin of 1.46%. L.B. Foster's return on equity of 6.39% beat Olympic Steel's return on equity.
In the previous week, Olympic Steel had 1 more articles in the media than L.B. Foster. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Olympic Steel and 2 mentions for L.B. Foster. Olympic Steel's average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat L.B. Foster's score of 0.42 indicating that L.B. Foster is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Olympic Steel beats L.B. Foster on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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