TX vs. STLD, MT, TS, X, CMC, CRS, MTUS, SXC, ASTL, and TWI
Should you be buying Ternium stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ternium include Steel Dynamics (STLD), ArcelorMittal (MT), Tenaris (TS), United States Steel (X), Commercial Metals (CMC), Carpenter Technology (CRS), Metallus (MTUS), SunCoke Energy (SXC), Algoma Steel Group (ASTL), and Titan International (TWI). These companies are all part of the "blast furnaces & steel mills" industry.
Steel Dynamics (NASDAQ:STLD) and Ternium (NYSE:TX) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.
Steel Dynamics currently has a consensus target price of $125.29, suggesting a potential downside of 6.70%. Ternium has a consensus target price of $52.33, suggesting a potential upside of 22.50%. Given Steel Dynamics' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Ternium is more favorable than Steel Dynamics.
In the previous week, Steel Dynamics had 6 more articles in the media than Ternium. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Steel Dynamics and 4 mentions for Ternium. Ternium's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Steel Dynamics' score of 0.83 indicating that Steel Dynamics is being referred to more favorably in the media.
82.4% of Steel Dynamics shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.0% of Ternium shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.1% of Steel Dynamics shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Ternium shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Steel Dynamics received 377 more outperform votes than Ternium when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.30% of users gave Steel Dynamics an outperform vote while only 66.33% of users gave Ternium an outperform vote.
Steel Dynamics has higher revenue and earnings than Ternium. Steel Dynamics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ternium, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Steel Dynamics pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Ternium pays an annual dividend of $4.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.3%. Steel Dynamics pays out 12.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ternium pays out 130.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Steel Dynamics has raised its dividend for 12 consecutive years and Ternium has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Steel Dynamics has a beta of 1.47, meaning that its stock price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ternium has a beta of 1.69, meaning that its stock price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Steel Dynamics has a net margin of 12.89% compared to Steel Dynamics' net margin of 3.53%. Ternium's return on equity of 27.62% beat Steel Dynamics' return on equity.
Summary
Steel Dynamics beats Ternium on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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