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Russel Metals (RUS) Competitors

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C$42.54 -0.12 (-0.28%)
(As of 12/20/2024 05:17 PM ET)

RUS vs. TIH, FTT, ADEN, DBM, WJX, RME, AAO, AC, BBD.B, and SNC

Should you be buying Russel Metals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Russel Metals include Toromont Industries (TIH), Finning International (FTT), ADENTRA (ADEN), Doman Building Materials Group (DBM), Wajax (WJX), Rocky Mountain Equipment Alberta Ltd (RME.TO) (RME), IntellaEquity (AAO), Air Canada (AC), Bombardier, Inc. Class B (BBD.B), and SNC-Lavalin Group (SNC). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.

Russel Metals vs.

Toromont Industries (TSE:TIH) and Russel Metals (TSE:RUS) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.

Toromont Industries presently has a consensus target price of C$135.00, indicating a potential upside of 18.36%. Russel Metals has a consensus target price of C$50.50, indicating a potential upside of 18.71%. Given Russel Metals' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Russel Metals is more favorable than Toromont Industries.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Toromont Industries
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.67
Russel Metals
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.86

51.4% of Toromont Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.9% of Russel Metals shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Toromont Industries shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Russel 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.

Toromont Industries has a net margin of 10.86% compared to Russel Metals' net margin of 4.87%. Toromont Industries' return on equity of 19.65% beat Russel Metals' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Toromont Industries10.86% 19.65% 9.56%
Russel Metals 4.87%12.67%6.48%

In the previous week, Toromont Industries had 2 more articles in the media than Russel Metals. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Toromont Industries and 3 mentions for Russel Metals. Toromont Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Russel Metals' score of 0.45 indicating that Toromont Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Toromont Industries
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Russel Metals
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Russel Metals received 153 more outperform votes than Toromont Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.47% of users gave Russel Metals an outperform vote while only 57.61% of users gave Toromont Industries an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Toromont IndustriesOutperform Votes
405
57.61%
Underperform Votes
298
42.39%
Russel MetalsOutperform Votes
558
67.47%
Underperform Votes
269
32.53%

Toromont Industries has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Russel Metals has a beta of 1.52, meaning that its stock price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Toromont Industries pays an annual dividend of C$1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Russel Metals pays an annual dividend of C$1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Toromont Industries pays out 30.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Russel Metals pays out 49.0% 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.

Toromont Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Russel Metals. Russel Metals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Toromont Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Toromont IndustriesC$4.78B1.95C$518.94MC$6.2718.19
Russel MetalsC$4.26B0.59C$207.40MC$3.4312.40

Summary

Toromont Industries beats Russel Metals on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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RUS vs. The Competition

MetricRussel MetalsIndustrial Distribution IndustryIndustrials SectorTSE Exchange
Market CapC$2.50BC$3.45BC$3.95BC$5.82B
Dividend Yield4.09%4.46%4.22%5.78%
P/E Ratio12.40531.32427.6726.08
Price / Sales0.5955.30426.301,299.55
Price / Cash8.8860.3627.6779.99
Price / Book1.511.873.583.06
Net IncomeC$207.40MC$220.15MC$169.69MC$291.80M
7 Day Performance-4.08%-3.56%-1.31%-2.47%
1 Month Performance-1.78%-5.28%0.04%0.12%
1 Year Performance-4.47%-0.95%24.22%34.97%

Russel Metals Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
RUS
Russel Metals
2.5317 of 5 stars
C$42.54
-0.3%
C$50.50
+18.7%
-4.5%C$2.50BC$4.26B12.403,500High Trading Volume
TIH
Toromont Industries
2.6655 of 5 stars
C$114.01
+2.2%
C$135.00
+18.4%
-0.4%C$9.34BC$4.78B17.797,000Positive News
Gap Up
FTT
Finning International
3.5491 of 5 stars
C$37.95
-1.0%
C$48.25
+27.1%
-1.7%C$5.29BC$10.87B10.92147,000
ADEN
ADENTRA
N/A$37.84
-1.1%
N/A+58.5%$946.76M$2.16B14.392,828Analyst Forecast
DBM
Doman Building Materials Group
3.5751 of 5 stars
C$8.99
-0.8%
C$10.93
+21.6%
+3.8%C$784.74MC$2.46B12.581,232News Coverage
WJX
Wajax
2.1718 of 5 stars
C$21.80
-2.2%
C$24.50
+12.4%
-28.2%C$473.71MC$2.10B7.243,200
RME
Rocky Mountain Equipment Alberta Ltd (RME.TO)
N/AC$7.40
flat
N/AN/AC$142.50MC$767.30M21.088,160High Trading Volume
AAO
IntellaEquity
N/AC$0.01
+∞
N/A+0.0%C$2.56MC$3.08M-2.503,670Gap Up
AC
Air Canada
3.7553 of 5 stars
C$25.09
+0.2%
C$25.82
+2.9%
+20.1%C$8.99BC$22.26B5.5920Analyst Upgrade
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
BBD.B
Bombardier, Inc. Class B
1.6623 of 5 stars
C$103.52
+0.3%
C$114.42
+10.5%
+90.0%C$8.96BC$8.40B26.73N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
SNC
SNC-Lavalin Group
N/AC$43.49
-1.1%
N/AN/AC$7.63BC$7.94B92.5333,876High Trading Volume

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This page (TSE:RUS) was last updated on 12/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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