RYI vs. ZEUS, FSTR, GWAV, RS, TROX, SLVM, CALM, MTX, MP, and CDE
Should you be buying Ryerson stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ryerson include Olympic Steel (ZEUS), L.B. Foster (FSTR), Greenwave Technology Solutions (GWAV), Reliance (RS), Tronox (TROX), Sylvamo (SLVM), Cal-Maine Foods (CALM), Minerals Technologies (MTX), MP Materials (MP), and Coeur Mining (CDE).
Olympic Steel (NASDAQ:ZEUS) and Ryerson (NYSE:RYI) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, dividends, profitability, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Ryerson has higher revenue and earnings than Olympic Steel. Ryerson is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Olympic Steel, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Olympic Steel has a beta of 1.54, indicating that its stock price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ryerson has a beta of 1.62, indicating that its stock price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Olympic Steel pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Ryerson pays an annual dividend of $0.75 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Olympic Steel pays out 16.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ryerson pays out 29.1% 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 raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Ryerson has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Olympic Steel had 1 more articles in the media than Ryerson. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Olympic Steel and 3 mentions for Ryerson. Olympic Steel's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Ryerson's score of 0.42 indicating that Ryerson is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
87.1% of Olympic Steel shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.8% of Ryerson shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.8% of Olympic Steel shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.9% of Ryerson shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Ryerson has a consensus target price of $28.00, indicating a potential upside of 24.94%. Given Olympic Steel's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Ryerson is more favorable than Olympic Steel.
Olympic Steel has a net margin of 2.05% compared to Olympic Steel's net margin of 1.84%. Olympic Steel's return on equity of 10.27% beat Ryerson's return on equity.
Olympic Steel received 92 more outperform votes than Ryerson when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.26% of users gave Olympic Steel an outperform vote while only 58.06% of users gave Ryerson an outperform vote.
Summary
Olympic Steel and Ryerson tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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