RUS vs. DBM, FTT, EIF, BBU.UN, CJT, SES, MDA, WTE, BDGI, and BLDP Should you be buying Russel Metals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Russel Metals include Doman Building Materials Group (DBM), Finning International (FTT), Exchange Income (EIF), Brookfield Business Partners (BBU.UN), Cargojet (CJT), Secure Energy Services (SES), MDA (MDA), Westshore Terminals Investment (WTE), Badger Infrastructure Solutions (BDGI), and Ballard Power Systems (BLDP). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Russel Metals (TSE:RUS ) and Doman Building Materials Group (TSE:DBM ) are both industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, earnings, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Russel Metals presently has a consensus price target of C$47.64, indicating a potential upside of 22.38%. Doman Building Materials Group has a consensus price target of C$9.88, indicating a potential upside of 35.83%. Given Doman Building Materials Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Doman Building Materials Group is more favorable than Russel Metals.
Russel Metals has a beta of 1.57, suggesting that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Doman Building Materials Group has a beta of 1.57, suggesting that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Russel Metals has higher revenue and earnings than Doman Building Materials Group. Doman Building Materials Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Russel Metals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Russel Metals pays an annual dividend of C$1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Doman Building Materials Group pays an annual dividend of C$0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.7%. Russel Metals pays out 42.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Doman Building Materials Group pays out 64.4% 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.
Russel Metals received 102 more outperform votes than Doman Building Materials Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.82% of users gave Doman Building Materials Group an outperform vote while only 67.81% of users gave Russel Metals an outperform vote.
Russel Metals has a net margin of 5.54% compared to Doman Building Materials Group's net margin of 3.04%. Russel Metals' return on equity of 14.72% beat Doman Building Materials Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Doman Building Materials Group had 29 more articles in the media than Russel Metals. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Doman Building Materials Group and 0 mentions for Russel Metals. Russel Metals' average media sentiment score of 2.00 beat Doman Building Materials Group's score of 0.18 indicating that Russel Metals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
27.1% of Russel Metals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.5% of Doman Building Materials Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Russel Metals shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 19.9% of Doman Building Materials Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary Russel Metals beats Doman Building Materials Group on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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