X vs. CMC, CRS, STLD, TX, MT, CLF, RGLD, FMC, AXTA, and GGB
Should you be buying United States Steel stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of United States Steel include Commercial Metals (CMC), Carpenter Technology (CRS), Steel Dynamics (STLD), Ternium (TX), ArcelorMittal (MT), Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF), Royal Gold (RGLD), FMC (FMC), Axalta Coating Systems (AXTA), and Gerdau (GGB). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
United States Steel (NYSE:X) and Commercial Metals (NYSE:CMC) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, risk, valuation and dividends.
United States Steel presently has a consensus target price of $38.00, suggesting a potential upside of 5.82%. Commercial Metals has a consensus target price of $57.67, suggesting a potential upside of 0.12%. Given United States Steel's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe United States Steel is more favorable than Commercial Metals.
United States Steel has higher revenue and earnings than Commercial Metals. Commercial Metals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than United States Steel, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
United States Steel has a beta of 2.06, meaning that its share price is 106% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Commercial Metals has a beta of 1.35, meaning that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, United States Steel had 4 more articles in the media than Commercial Metals. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for United States Steel and 8 mentions for Commercial Metals. Commercial Metals' average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat United States Steel's score of 0.96 indicating that Commercial Metals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
81.9% of United States Steel shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.9% of Commercial Metals shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of United States Steel shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Commercial Metals 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.
United States Steel received 579 more outperform votes than Commercial Metals when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.75% of users gave United States Steel an outperform vote while only 54.25% of users gave Commercial Metals an outperform vote.
Commercial Metals has a net margin of 8.09% compared to United States Steel's net margin of 4.89%. Commercial Metals' return on equity of 17.72% beat United States Steel's return on equity.
United States Steel pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Commercial Metals pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. United States Steel pays out 5.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Commercial Metals pays out 12.5% 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.
Summary
United States Steel and Commercial Metals tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding X 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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