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Universal Stainless & Alloy Products (USAP) Competitors

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USAP vs. ZEUS, RDUS, NUE, STLD, RS, CRS, X, ATI, CMC, and CLF

Should you be buying Universal Stainless & Alloy Products stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Universal Stainless & Alloy Products include Olympic Steel (ZEUS), Radius Recycling (RDUS), Nucor (NUE), Steel Dynamics (STLD), Reliance (RS), Carpenter Technology (CRS), United States Steel (X), ATI (ATI), Commercial Metals (CMC), and Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF). These companies are all part of the "steel" industry.

Universal Stainless & Alloy Products vs.

Olympic Steel (NASDAQ:ZEUS) and Universal Stainless & Alloy Products (NASDAQ:USAP) are both small-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, valuation, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability and institutional ownership.

Olympic Steel received 89 more outperform votes than Universal Stainless & Alloy Products when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.03% of users gave Olympic Steel an outperform vote while only 55.03% of users gave Universal Stainless & Alloy Products an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Olympic SteelOutperform Votes
357
65.03%
Underperform Votes
192
34.97%
Universal Stainless & Alloy ProductsOutperform Votes
268
55.03%
Underperform Votes
219
44.97%

Olympic Steel has higher revenue and earnings than Universal Stainless & Alloy Products. Olympic Steel is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Universal Stainless & Alloy Products, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Olympic Steel$2.16B0.17$44.53M$2.2814.79
Universal Stainless & Alloy Products$285.94M1.46$4.91M$2.7116.41

In the previous week, Olympic Steel had 1 more articles in the media than Universal Stainless & Alloy Products. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Olympic Steel and 1 mentions for Universal Stainless & Alloy Products. Olympic Steel's average media sentiment score of 1.77 beat Universal Stainless & Alloy Products' score of 0.00 indicating that Olympic Steel is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Olympic Steel
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive
Universal Stainless & Alloy Products
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

87.1% of Olympic Steel shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.2% of Universal Stainless & Alloy Products shares are held by institutional investors. 13.5% of Olympic Steel shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.9% of Universal Stainless & Alloy Products shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Olympic Steel has a beta of 1.53, indicating that its stock price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Universal Stainless & Alloy Products has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Universal Stainless & Alloy Products has a consensus price target of $46.00, suggesting a potential upside of 3.46%. Given Universal Stainless & Alloy Products' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Universal Stainless & Alloy Products is more favorable than Olympic Steel.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Olympic Steel
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Universal Stainless & Alloy Products
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

Universal Stainless & Alloy Products has a net margin of 8.14% compared to Olympic Steel's net margin of 1.32%. Universal Stainless & Alloy Products' return on equity of 11.22% beat Olympic Steel's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Olympic Steel1.32% 3.79% 2.13%
Universal Stainless & Alloy Products 8.14%11.22%7.34%

Summary

Olympic Steel beats Universal Stainless & Alloy Products on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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USAP vs. The Competition

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MetricUniversal Stainless & Alloy ProductsBlast furnaces & steel mills IndustryMaterials SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$417.46M$10.10B$2.92B$9.02B
Dividend YieldN/A3.21%5.10%4.03%
P/E Ratio16.4119.14105.5615.38
Price / Sales1.460.80878,762.1783.23
Price / Cash16.555.3824.2935.97
Price / Book1.791.273.734.80
Net Income$4.91M$1.44B$152.85M$224.91M

Universal Stainless & Alloy Products Competitors List

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CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
USAP
Universal Stainless & Alloy Products
0.9999 of 5 stars		$44.46
-0.6%		$46.00
+3.5%		+143.3%$417.46M$285.94M16.41566Analyst Forecast
ZEUS
Olympic Steel
4.0326 of 5 stars		$32.43
+5.3%		N/A-46.7%$361.04M$2.01B14.221,670Positive News
RDUS
Radius Recycling
4.4978 of 5 stars		$11.21
+2.3%		$22.00
+96.3%		-51.0%$314.32M$223.36M-1.203,011Short Interest ↓
NUE
Nucor
4.9682 of 5 stars		$122.45
+3.6%		$165.63
+35.3%		-26.4%$28.75B$31.36B11.8332,000Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↓
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
STLD
Steel Dynamics
4.7144 of 5 stars		$123.24
+5.9%		$141.13
+14.5%		+12.0%$18.76B$17.90B11.1510,600Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
Options Volume
News Coverage
RS
Reliance
4.0886 of 5 stars		$274.29
+2.7%		$328.83
+19.9%		+3.5%$14.84B$14.05B15.0614,500News Coverage
CRS
Carpenter Technology
4.3037 of 5 stars		$192.15
+3.3%		$153.00
-20.4%		+223.9%$9.58B$2.83B42.804,100Dividend Announcement
Analyst Revision
X
United States Steel
4.206 of 5 stars		$36.54
+6.7%		$41.32
+13.1%		-23.7%$8.23B$16.28B24.0421,803Analyst Forecast
ATI
ATI
4.188 of 5 stars		$54.96
-0.2%		$73.71
+34.1%		+37.0%$7.84B$4.25B21.147,300Analyst Upgrade
Short Interest ↑
CMC
Commercial Metals
4.9716 of 5 stars		$48.41
+3.2%		$63.83
+31.9%		+1.0%$5.50B$7.83B11.6913,178
CLF
Cleveland-Cliffs
3.5353 of 5 stars		$10.47
+5.8%		$16.93
+61.7%		-42.7%$5.17B$19.97B-10.7926,000Short Interest ↓

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This page (NASDAQ:USAP) was last updated on 1/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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