ZEUS vs. HAYN, RDUS, RYI, FSTR, NUE, STLD, RS, X, CLF, and ATI
Should you be buying Olympic Steel stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Olympic Steel include Haynes International (HAYN), Radius Recycling (RDUS), Ryerson (RYI), L.B. Foster (FSTR), Nucor (NUE), Steel Dynamics (STLD), Reliance (RS), United States Steel (X), Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF), and ATI (ATI).
Olympic Steel (NASDAQ:ZEUS) and Haynes International (NASDAQ:HAYN) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations and valuation.
87.1% of Olympic Steel shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.3% of Haynes International shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.5% of Olympic Steel shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.1% of Haynes International shares are owned by 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.
Olympic Steel pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Haynes International pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Olympic Steel pays out 16.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Haynes International pays out 29.7% 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.
Olympic Steel has higher revenue and earnings than Haynes International. Olympic Steel is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Haynes International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Haynes International had 1 more articles in the media than Olympic Steel. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Haynes International and 2 mentions for Olympic Steel. Olympic Steel's average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat Haynes International's score of 0.76 indicating that Olympic Steel is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Olympic Steel received 135 more outperform votes than Haynes International when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.26% of users gave Olympic Steel an outperform vote while only 54.59% of users gave Haynes International an outperform vote.
Haynes International has a net margin of 6.31% compared to Olympic Steel's net margin of 2.05%. Haynes International's return on equity of 8.79% beat Olympic Steel's return on equity.
Olympic Steel has a beta of 1.67, suggesting that its share price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Haynes International has a beta of 1.42, suggesting that its share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Olympic Steel beats Haynes International on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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