RYI vs. ZEUS, SSRM, KOP, SLCA, PRM, MATV, MTUS, GSM, SA, and KRO
Should you be buying Ryerson stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ryerson include Olympic Steel (ZEUS), SSR Mining (SSRM), Koppers (KOP), U.S. Silica (SLCA), Perimeter Solutions (PRM), Mativ (MATV), Metallus (MTUS), Ferroglobe (GSM), Seabridge Gold (SA), and Kronos Worldwide (KRO). 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 superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, risk, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.
Olympic Steel has a beta of 1.64, suggesting that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ryerson has a beta of 1.65, suggesting that its stock price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
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 company insiders. Comparatively, 3.9% of Ryerson shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Ryerson has a consensus price target of $33.00, suggesting a potential upside of 7.63%. Given Olympic Steel's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Ryerson is more favorable than Olympic Steel.
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. Olympic Steel has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Ryerson has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Ryerson is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Ryerson has a net margin of 2.85% compared to Ryerson's net margin of 2.06%. Olympic Steel's return on equity of 16.33% beat Ryerson's return on equity.
In the previous week, Olympic Steel had 2 more articles in the media than Ryerson. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Olympic Steel and 1 mentions for Ryerson. Ryerson's average media sentiment score of 0.41 beat Olympic Steel's score of 0.00 indicating that Olympic Steel is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Ryerson beats Olympic Steel on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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