ZEUS vs. RYI, FSTR, EU, WLKP, HAYN, CRML, ASTL, DRD, TGB, and ASIX
Should you be buying Olympic Steel stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Olympic Steel include Ryerson (RYI), L.B. Foster (FSTR), enCore Energy (EU), Westlake Chemical Partners (WLKP), Haynes International (HAYN), Critical Metals (CRML), Algoma Steel Group (ASTL), DRDGOLD (DRD), Taseko Mines (TGB), and AdvanSix (ASIX). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
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 institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, valuation and community ranking.
Olympic Steel has a beta of 1.64, meaning that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ryerson has a beta of 1.65, meaning that its stock price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Olympic Steel and Olympic Steel both had 2 articles in the media. Olympic Steel's average media sentiment score of 0.41 beat Ryerson's score of 0.00 indicating that Olympic Steel is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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 58.31% of users gave Ryerson an outperform vote.
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, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Ryerson has a net margin of 2.85% compared to Olympic Steel's net margin of 2.06%. Ryerson's return on equity of 16.33% beat Olympic Steel's return on equity.
Olympic Steel pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Ryerson pays an annual dividend of $0.75 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Olympic Steel pays out 15.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ryerson pays out 18.4% 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.
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.
Ryerson has a consensus target price of $33.00, suggesting a potential upside of 6.28%. Given Ryerson's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Ryerson is more favorable than Olympic Steel.
Summary
Ryerson beats Olympic Steel on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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