RDUS vs. ZEUS, NUE, STLD, RS, CRS, ATI, X, CMC, CLF, and WOR
Should you be buying Radius Recycling stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Radius Recycling include Olympic Steel (ZEUS), Nucor (NUE), Steel Dynamics (STLD), Reliance (RS), Carpenter Technology (CRS), ATI (ATI), United States Steel (X), Commercial Metals (CMC), Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF), and Worthington Enterprises (WOR). These companies are all part of the "steel" industry.
Radius Recycling vs.
Radius Recycling (NASDAQ:RDUS) and Olympic Steel (NASDAQ:ZEUS) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings and dividends.
78.1% of Radius Recycling shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.1% of Olympic Steel shares are held by institutional investors. 4.9% of Radius Recycling 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 large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Olympic Steel has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Radius Recycling. Radius Recycling is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Olympic Steel, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Radius Recycling currently has a consensus target price of $22.00, indicating a potential upside of 67.05%. Olympic Steel has a consensus target price of $42.00, indicating a potential upside of 10.88%. Given Radius Recycling's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Radius Recycling is more favorable than Olympic Steel.
Olympic Steel has a net margin of 1.32% compared to Radius Recycling's net margin of -10.49%. Olympic Steel's return on equity of 3.79% beat Radius Recycling's return on equity.
Radius Recycling has a beta of 1.6, suggesting that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Olympic Steel has a beta of 1.52, suggesting that its stock price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Radius Recycling pays an annual dividend of $0.75 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.7%. Olympic Steel pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Radius Recycling pays out -7.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Olympic Steel pays out 26.3% 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. Radius Recycling is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Olympic Steel received 14 more outperform votes than Radius Recycling when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.09% of users gave Olympic Steel an outperform vote while only 53.17% of users gave Radius Recycling an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Olympic Steel had 12 more articles in the media than Radius Recycling. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Olympic Steel and 2 mentions for Radius Recycling. Radius Recycling's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Olympic Steel's score of 0.58 indicating that Radius Recycling is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Olympic Steel beats Radius Recycling on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:RDUS) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
