NUE vs. STLD, MT, NEM, DOW, LYB, APD, AEM, DD, PPG, and GOLD
Should you be buying Nucor stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nucor include Steel Dynamics (STLD), ArcelorMittal (MT), Newmont (NEM), DOW (DOW), LyondellBasell Industries (LYB), Air Products and Chemicals (APD), Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM), DuPont de Nemours (DD), PPG Industries (PPG), and Barrick Gold (GOLD). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Steel Dynamics (NASDAQ:STLD) and Nucor (NYSE:NUE) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Steel Dynamics has a beta of 1.42, meaning that its share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nucor has a beta of 1.61, meaning that its share price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Steel Dynamics has a net margin of 12.89% compared to Steel Dynamics' net margin of 12.40%. Nucor's return on equity of 27.62% beat Steel Dynamics' return on equity.
Steel Dynamics pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Nucor pays an annual dividend of $2.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Steel Dynamics pays out 12.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Nucor pays out 12.7% 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. Steel Dynamics has raised its dividend for 12 consecutive years and Nucor has raised its dividend for 51 consecutive years. Steel Dynamics is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Steel Dynamics currently has a consensus price target of $121.17, suggesting a potential downside of 10.29%. Nucor has a consensus price target of $193.14, suggesting a potential upside of 10.22%. Given Steel Dynamics' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Nucor is more favorable than Steel Dynamics.
82.4% of Steel Dynamics shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.5% of Nucor shares are held by institutional investors. 6.1% of Steel Dynamics shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Nucor shares are held by company 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.
In the previous week, Nucor had 10 more articles in the media than Steel Dynamics. MarketBeat recorded 41 mentions for Nucor and 31 mentions for Steel Dynamics. Nucor's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Steel Dynamics' score of 0.17 indicating that Steel Dynamics is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Nucor has higher revenue and earnings than Steel Dynamics. Steel Dynamics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nucor, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Steel Dynamics received 156 more outperform votes than Nucor when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.36% of users gave Steel Dynamics an outperform vote while only 64.45% of users gave Nucor an outperform vote.
Summary
Nucor beats Steel Dynamics on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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