USAP vs. AKS, OSN, TWI, HAYN, ZEUS, RDUS, TMST, SXC, NUE, and STLD
Should you be buying Universal Stainless & Alloy Products stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Universal Stainless & Alloy Products include AK Steel (AKS), Ossen Innovation (OSN), Titan International (TWI), Haynes International (HAYN), Olympic Steel (ZEUS), Radius Recycling (RDUS), TimkenSteel (TMST), SunCoke Energy (SXC), Nucor (NUE), and Steel Dynamics (STLD).
AK Steel (NYSE:AKS) and Universal Stainless & Alloy Products (NASDAQ:USAP) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, risk and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Universal Stainless & Alloy Products had 3 more articles in the media than AK Steel. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Universal Stainless & Alloy Products and 0 mentions for AK Steel. Universal Stainless & Alloy Products' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled AK Steel'saverage media sentiment score.
AK Steel has a beta of 2.93, indicating that its stock price is 193% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Universal Stainless & Alloy Products has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
60.0% of AK Steel shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.2% of Universal Stainless & Alloy Products shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of AK Steel shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.9% of Universal Stainless & Alloy Products shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Universal Stainless & Alloy Products has a consensus price target of $36.00, suggesting a potential upside of 4.44%. Given AK Steel's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Universal Stainless & Alloy Products is more favorable than AK Steel.
AK Steel received 329 more outperform votes than Universal Stainless & Alloy Products when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.79% of users gave AK Steel an outperform vote while only 56.36% of users gave Universal Stainless & Alloy Products an outperform vote.
AK Steel has higher revenue and earnings than Universal Stainless & Alloy Products. AK Steel is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Universal Stainless & Alloy Products, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Universal Stainless & Alloy Products has a net margin of 3.21% compared to Universal Stainless & Alloy Products' net margin of 0.18%. Universal Stainless & Alloy Products' return on equity of 23.33% beat AK Steel's return on equity.
Summary
Universal Stainless & Alloy Products beats AK Steel on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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