RDUS vs. ZEUS, NUE, STLD, RS, CRS, ATI, X, CMC, CLF, and WOR
Should you be buying Radius Recycling stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Radius Recycling include Olympic Steel (ZEUS), Nucor (NUE), Steel Dynamics (STLD), Reliance (RS), Carpenter Technology (CRS), ATI (ATI), United States Steel (X), Commercial Metals (CMC), Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF), and Worthington Enterprises (WOR). These companies are all part of the "steel" industry.
Radius Recycling vs.
Olympic Steel (NASDAQ:ZEUS) and Radius Recycling (NASDAQ:RDUS) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, valuation, risk and earnings.
Olympic Steel has a net margin of 1.32% compared to Radius Recycling's net margin of -9.73%. Olympic Steel's return on equity of 3.79% beat Radius Recycling's return on equity.
Olympic Steel has a beta of 1.53, suggesting that its share price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Radius Recycling has a beta of 1.64, suggesting that its share price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Olympic Steel pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Radius Recycling pays an annual dividend of $0.75 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.8%. Olympic Steel pays out 26.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Radius Recycling pays out -7.5% 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. Radius Recycling is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
87.1% of Olympic Steel shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.1% of Radius Recycling shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.8% of Olympic Steel shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.9% of Radius Recycling 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.
In the previous week, Radius Recycling had 17 more articles in the media than Olympic Steel. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Radius Recycling and 2 mentions for Olympic Steel. Olympic Steel's average media sentiment score of 1.26 beat Radius Recycling's score of 0.21 indicating that Olympic Steel is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Olympic Steel has higher revenue and earnings than Radius Recycling. Radius Recycling is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Olympic Steel, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Radius Recycling has a consensus target price of $22.00, indicating a potential upside of 100.73%. Given Radius Recycling's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Radius Recycling is more favorable than Olympic Steel.
Olympic Steel received 13 more outperform votes than Radius Recycling when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.03% of users gave Olympic Steel an outperform vote while only 53.17% of users gave Radius Recycling an outperform vote.
Summary
Olympic Steel beats Radius Recycling on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:RDUS) was last updated on 1/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
