ATI vs. STLD, RS, X, CLF, CMC, CRS, WOR, HAYN, ZEUS, and RDUS
Should you be buying ATI stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ATI include Steel Dynamics (STLD), Reliance (RS), United States Steel (X), Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF), Commercial Metals (CMC), Carpenter Technology (CRS), Worthington Enterprises (WOR), Haynes International (HAYN), Olympic Steel (ZEUS), and Radius Recycling (RDUS). These companies are all part of the "steel" industry.
Steel Dynamics (NASDAQ:STLD) and ATI (NYSE:ATI) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation and media sentiment.
Steel Dynamics has higher revenue and earnings than ATI. Steel Dynamics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ATI, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Steel Dynamics presently has a consensus target price of $125.29, suggesting a potential downside of 0.19%. ATI has a consensus target price of $62.60, suggesting a potential upside of 7.30%. Given Steel Dynamics' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe ATI is more favorable than Steel Dynamics.
In the previous week, Steel Dynamics had 3 more articles in the media than ATI. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Steel Dynamics and 4 mentions for ATI. ATI's average media sentiment score of 1.37 beat Steel Dynamics' score of 1.04 indicating that Steel Dynamics is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Steel Dynamics has a beta of 1.4, suggesting that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ATI has a beta of 1.12, suggesting that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Steel Dynamics received 391 more outperform votes than ATI when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.30% of users gave Steel Dynamics an outperform vote while only 58.06% of users gave ATI an outperform vote.
82.4% of Steel Dynamics shares are held by institutional investors. 6.0% of Steel Dynamics shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of ATI shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Steel Dynamics has a net margin of 12.89% compared to Steel Dynamics' net margin of 8.70%. ATI's return on equity of 27.62% beat Steel Dynamics' return on equity.
Summary
Steel Dynamics beats ATI on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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