RS vs. NUE, STLD, CRS, ATI, X, CMC, CLF, WOR, ZEUS, and RDUS
Should you be buying Reliance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Reliance include Nucor (NUE), Steel Dynamics (STLD), Carpenter Technology (CRS), ATI (ATI), United States Steel (X), Commercial Metals (CMC), Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF), Worthington Enterprises (WOR), Olympic Steel (ZEUS), and Radius Recycling (RDUS). These companies are all part of the "steel" industry.
Reliance vs.
Reliance (NYSE:RS) and Nucor (NYSE:NUE) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, dividends and community ranking.
79.3% of Reliance shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.5% of Nucor shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Reliance shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Nucor shares are held 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.
Nucor has higher revenue and earnings than Reliance. Nucor is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Reliance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Nucor received 210 more outperform votes than Reliance when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.73% of users gave Reliance an outperform vote while only 64.39% of users gave Nucor an outperform vote.
Reliance pays an annual dividend of $4.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Nucor pays an annual dividend of $2.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Reliance pays out 24.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Nucor pays out 21.3% 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. Reliance has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years and Nucor has increased its dividend for 52 consecutive years. Nucor is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Reliance currently has a consensus price target of $328.83, indicating a potential upside of 13.95%. Nucor has a consensus price target of $163.63, indicating a potential upside of 31.53%. Given Nucor's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Nucor is more favorable than Reliance.
Nucor has a net margin of 8.05% compared to Reliance's net margin of 7.42%. Reliance's return on equity of 13.68% beat Nucor's return on equity.
Reliance has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nucor has a beta of 1.6, suggesting that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Reliance had 7 more articles in the media than Nucor. MarketBeat recorded 35 mentions for Reliance and 28 mentions for Nucor. Nucor's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Reliance's score of 0.62 indicating that Nucor is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Nucor beats Reliance on 13 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:RS) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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