ATI vs. STLD, RS, X, CLF, CMC, CRS, WOR, HAYN, ZEUS, and RDUS
Should you be buying ATI stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ATI include Steel Dynamics (STLD), Reliance (RS), United States Steel (X), Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF), Commercial Metals (CMC), Carpenter Technology (CRS), Worthington Enterprises (WOR), Haynes International (HAYN), Olympic Steel (ZEUS), and Radius Recycling (RDUS). These companies are all part of the "steel" industry.
Steel Dynamics (NASDAQ:STLD) and ATI (NYSE:ATI) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, profitability and valuation.
Steel Dynamics has a beta of 1.47, meaning that its stock price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ATI has a beta of 1.17, meaning that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Steel Dynamics has a net margin of 12.89% compared to Steel Dynamics' net margin of 8.70%. ATI's return on equity of 27.62% beat Steel Dynamics' return on equity.
Steel Dynamics received 391 more outperform votes than ATI when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.30% of users gave Steel Dynamics an outperform vote while only 58.06% of users gave ATI an outperform vote.
In the previous week, ATI had 8 more articles in the media than Steel Dynamics. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for ATI and 6 mentions for Steel Dynamics. ATI's average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Steel Dynamics' score of 0.45 indicating that Steel Dynamics is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Steel Dynamics has higher revenue and earnings than ATI. Steel Dynamics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ATI, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
82.4% of Steel Dynamics shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.0% of Steel Dynamics shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of ATI shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Steel Dynamics currently has a consensus price target of $125.29, indicating a potential downside of 6.41%. ATI has a consensus price target of $62.60, indicating a potential upside of 2.15%. Given Steel Dynamics' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe ATI is more favorable than Steel Dynamics.
Summary
Steel Dynamics beats ATI on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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