TS vs. NUE, STLD, MT, X, TX, CMC, CRS, MTUS, SXC, and ASTL
Should you be buying Tenaris stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tenaris include Nucor (NUE), Steel Dynamics (STLD), ArcelorMittal (MT), United States Steel (X), Ternium (TX), Commercial Metals (CMC), Carpenter Technology (CRS), Metallus (MTUS), SunCoke Energy (SXC), and Algoma Steel Group (ASTL). These companies are all part of the "blast furnaces & steel mills" industry.
Tenaris (NYSE:TS) and Nucor (NYSE:NUE) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, valuation, earnings and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Nucor had 2 more articles in the media than Tenaris. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Nucor and 1 mentions for Tenaris. Nucor's average media sentiment score of 1.39 beat Tenaris' score of 1.06 indicating that Nucor is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Tenaris has a net margin of 24.89% compared to Nucor's net margin of 12.40%. Tenaris' return on equity of 21.11% beat Nucor's return on equity.
Tenaris pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Nucor pays an annual dividend of $2.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Tenaris pays out 26.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Nucor pays out 12.7% 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.
Tenaris currently has a consensus target price of $41.60, indicating a potential upside of 26.18%. Nucor has a consensus target price of $192.75, indicating a potential upside of 15.37%. Given Tenaris' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Tenaris is more favorable than Nucor.
Nucor received 268 more outperform votes than Tenaris when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.39% of users gave Nucor an outperform vote while only 61.93% of users gave Tenaris an outperform vote.
Nucor has higher revenue and earnings than Tenaris. Tenaris is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nucor, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Tenaris has a beta of 1.51, indicating that its share price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nucor has a beta of 1.65, indicating that its share price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500.
10.5% of Tenaris shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.5% of Nucor shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Tenaris shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Nucor shares are owned 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.
Summary
Nucor beats Tenaris on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding TS 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 NYSE 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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