ATI vs. CMC, OLN, WFG, ICL, AGI, PAAS, ESI, FMC, AXTA, and NEU
Should you be buying ATI stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ATI include Commercial Metals (CMC), Olin (OLN), West Fraser Timber (WFG), ICL Group (ICL), Alamos Gold (AGI), Pan American Silver (PAAS), Element Solutions (ESI), FMC (FMC), Axalta Coating Systems (AXTA), and NewMarket (NEU). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Commercial Metals (NYSE:CMC) and ATI (NYSE:ATI) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, profitability, dividends, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
ATI received 110 more outperform votes than Commercial Metals when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.95% of users gave ATI an outperform vote while only 54.17% of users gave Commercial Metals an outperform vote.
86.9% of Commercial Metals shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Commercial Metals shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of ATI shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
ATI has a net margin of 8.81% compared to ATI's net margin of 8.09%. Commercial Metals' return on equity of 24.64% beat ATI's return on equity.
Commercial Metals presently has a consensus target price of $57.67, indicating a potential upside of 4.63%. ATI has a consensus target price of $56.00, indicating a potential upside of 12.56%. Given Commercial Metals' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe ATI is more favorable than Commercial Metals.
In the previous week, ATI had 19 more articles in the media than Commercial Metals. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for ATI and 5 mentions for Commercial Metals. ATI's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Commercial Metals' score of 0.70 indicating that Commercial Metals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Commercial Metals has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ATI has a beta of 1.22, suggesting that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Commercial Metals has higher revenue and earnings than ATI. Commercial Metals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ATI, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
ATI beats Commercial Metals on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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