ZEUS vs. HAYN, RDUS, RYI, FSTR, NUE, STLD, RS, X, CLF, and ATI
Should you be buying Olympic Steel stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Olympic Steel include Haynes International (HAYN), Radius Recycling (RDUS), Ryerson (RYI), L.B. Foster (FSTR), Nucor (NUE), Steel Dynamics (STLD), Reliance (RS), United States Steel (X), Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF), and ATI (ATI).
Haynes International (NASDAQ:HAYN) and Olympic Steel (NASDAQ:ZEUS) 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 profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking and dividends.
Haynes International has a beta of 1.42, meaning that its stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Olympic Steel has a beta of 1.67, meaning that its stock price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Olympic Steel received 135 more outperform votes than Haynes International when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.26% of users gave Olympic Steel an outperform vote while only 54.46% of users gave Haynes International an outperform vote.
Olympic Steel has higher revenue and earnings than Haynes International. Olympic Steel is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Haynes International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Haynes International pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Olympic Steel pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Haynes International pays out 29.7% 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 raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Haynes International had 7 more articles in the media than Olympic Steel. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Haynes International and 2 mentions for Olympic Steel. Haynes International's average media sentiment score of 1.88 beat Olympic Steel's score of 0.64 indicating that Olympic Steel is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
97.3% of Haynes International shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.1% of Olympic Steel shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.1% of Haynes International shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 13.8% of Olympic Steel shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Haynes International has a net margin of 6.31% compared to Haynes International's net margin of 2.05%. Olympic Steel's return on equity of 8.79% beat Haynes International's return on equity.
Summary
Olympic Steel beats Haynes International on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding ZEUS and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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