HAYN vs. IIIN, ROCK, WOR, ZEUS, RDUS, NUE, STLD, RS, X, and ATI
Should you be buying Haynes International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Haynes International include Insteel Industries (IIIN), Gibraltar Industries (ROCK), Worthington Enterprises (WOR), Olympic Steel (ZEUS), Radius Recycling (RDUS), Nucor (NUE), Steel Dynamics (STLD), Reliance (RS), United States Steel (X), and ATI (ATI).
Insteel Industries (NASDAQ:IIIN) and Haynes International (NASDAQ:HAYN) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, valuation, earnings and community ranking.
83.3% of Insteel Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.3% of Haynes International shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.6% of Insteel Industries shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.1% of Haynes International shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Haynes International has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Insteel Industries. Haynes International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Insteel Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Haynes International has a net margin of 6.31% compared to Haynes International's net margin of 3.67%. Insteel Industries' return on equity of 8.79% beat Haynes International's return on equity.
Insteel Industries has a beta of 1.11, indicating that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Haynes International has a beta of 1.4, indicating that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Insteel Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Haynes International pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Insteel Industries pays out 9.7% 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.
Haynes International received 16 more outperform votes than Insteel Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.01% of users gave Insteel Industries an outperform vote while only 53.53% of users gave Haynes International an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Haynes International had 9 more articles in the media than Insteel Industries. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Haynes International and 8 mentions for Insteel Industries. Haynes International's average media sentiment score of 0.17 beat Insteel Industries' score of 0.16 indicating that Insteel Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Haynes International beats Insteel Industries on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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