Ryerson (RYI) Competitors

GMS (NYSE:GMS) and Ryerson (NYSE:RYI) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, risk, earnings, valuation and institutional ownership.

Do analysts recommend GMS or RYI?

GMS presently has a consensus target price of $80.50, indicating a potential upside of 9.63%. Ryerson has a consensus target price of $25.00, indicating a potential upside of 7.81%. Given GMS's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe GMS is more favorable than Ryerson.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
GMS	0 Sell rating(s)	5 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.29
Ryerson	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Which has better valuation & earnings, GMS or RYI?

GMS has higher revenue and earnings than Ryerson. Ryerson is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GMS, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
GMS	$5.59B	0.50	$276.08M	$3.61	20.34
Ryerson	$4.60B	0.16	$145.70M	-$0.26	-89.19

Which has more risk and volatility, GMS or RYI?

GMS has a beta of 1.62, indicating that its share price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ryerson has a beta of 1.35, indicating that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer GMS or RYI?

GMS received 113 more outperform votes than Ryerson when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.08% of users gave GMS an outperform vote while only 57.93% of users gave Ryerson an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
GMS	Outperform Votes 376 66.08%	Underperform Votes 193 33.92%
Ryerson	Outperform Votes 263 57.93%	Underperform Votes 191 42.07%

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in GMS or RYI?

95.3% of GMS shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.8% of Ryerson shares are held by institutional investors. 1.9% of GMS shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of Ryerson shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Is GMS or RYI more profitable?

GMS has a net margin of 3.92% compared to Ryerson's net margin of -0.19%. GMS's return on equity of 20.67% beat Ryerson's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
GMS	3.92%	20.67%	8.05%
Ryerson	-0.19%	-0.70%	-0.23%

Does the media refer more to GMS or RYI?

In the previous week, GMS had 8 more articles in the media than Ryerson. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for GMS and 10 mentions for Ryerson. Ryerson's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat GMS's score of 0.19 indicating that Ryerson is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
GMS	4 Very Positive mention(s)	5 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	5 Negative mention(s)	1 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Ryerson	3 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	1 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

GMS beats Ryerson on 16 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.