TS vs. NUE, MT, STLD, X, TX, CMC, CRS, MTUS, SXC, and ASTL
Should you be buying Tenaris stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tenaris include Nucor (NUE), ArcelorMittal (MT), Steel Dynamics (STLD), United States Steel (X), Ternium (TX), Commercial Metals (CMC), Carpenter Technology (CRS), Metallus (MTUS), SunCoke Energy (SXC), and Algoma Steel Group (ASTL). These companies are all part of the "blast furnaces & steel mills" industry.
Nucor (NYSE:NUE) and Tenaris (NYSE:TS) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, valuation, community ranking and media sentiment.
In the previous week, Nucor had 11 more articles in the media than Tenaris. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Nucor and 2 mentions for Tenaris. Nucor's average media sentiment score of 1.72 beat Tenaris' score of 1.01 indicating that Tenaris is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Nucor received 268 more outperform votes than Tenaris when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.39% of users gave Nucor an outperform vote while only 61.93% of users gave Tenaris an outperform vote.
Nucor has higher revenue and earnings than Tenaris. Tenaris is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nucor, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Nucor has a beta of 1.6, meaning that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tenaris has a beta of 1.48, meaning that its stock price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
76.5% of Nucor shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.5% of Tenaris shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Nucor shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Tenaris shares are held by 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.
Tenaris has a net margin of 24.89% compared to Tenaris' net margin of 12.40%. Nucor's return on equity of 21.11% beat Tenaris' return on equity.
Nucor currently has a consensus target price of $192.75, suggesting a potential upside of 21.26%. Tenaris has a consensus target price of $41.60, suggesting a potential upside of 28.91%. Given Nucor's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Tenaris is more favorable than Nucor.
Nucor pays an annual dividend of $2.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Tenaris pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Nucor pays out 12.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Tenaris pays out 26.7% 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. Tenaris has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Tenaris is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Nucor beats Tenaris on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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