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Steel Partners (SPLP) Competitors

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$42.00 0.00 (0.00%)
As of 07/2/2025

SPLP vs. SID, CSTM, WS, ASTL, MTUS, UAMY, LUD, ACNT, FRD, and HUHU

Should you be buying Steel Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Steel Partners include National Steel (SID), Constellium (CSTM), Worthington Steel (WS), Algoma Steel Group (ASTL), Metallus (MTUS), United States Antimony (UAMY), Luda Technology Group (LUD), Ascent Industries (ACNT), Friedman Industries (FRD), and HUHUTECH International Group (HUHU). These companies are all part of the "steel works" industry.

Steel Partners vs. Its Competitors

Steel Partners (NYSE:SPLP) and National Steel (NYSE:SID) are both steel works companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, valuation and dividends.

National Steel has a consensus target price of $1.30, indicating a potential downside of 16.61%. Given National Steel's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe National Steel is more favorable than Steel Partners.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Steel Partners
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
National Steel
1 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.00

Steel Partners pays an annual dividend of $0.3750 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. National Steel pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. Steel Partners pays out 3.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. National Steel pays out -28.6% 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. National Steel is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Steel Partners has higher earnings, but lower revenue than National Steel. National Steel is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Steel Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Steel Partners$2.03B0.41$150.83M$11.313.71
National Steel$8.10B0.26-$480.53M-$0.35-4.45

Steel Partners has a beta of 1.25, indicating that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, National Steel has a beta of 1.67, indicating that its stock price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Steel Partners has a net margin of 11.43% compared to National Steel's net margin of -5.84%. Steel Partners' return on equity of 21.72% beat National Steel's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Steel Partners11.43% 21.72% 6.11%
National Steel -5.84%-16.19%-2.61%

In the previous week, Steel Partners had 2 more articles in the media than National Steel. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Steel Partners and 0 mentions for National Steel. Steel Partners' average media sentiment score of 1.16 beat National Steel's score of 0.00 indicating that Steel Partners is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Steel Partners Positive
National Steel Neutral

50.8% of Steel Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 84.8% of Steel Partners shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of National Steel 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.

Summary

Steel Partners beats National Steel on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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SPLP vs. The Competition

MetricSteel Partnersprimary metal products IndustryMulti-Sector SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$840.04M$840.04M$14.71B$20.62B
Dividend YieldN/AN/A4.19%3.77%
P/E Ratio4.314.317.3628.04
Price / Sales0.410.413.5836.84
Price / Cash4.354.3530.9221.91
Price / Book0.890.892.084.59
Net Income$150.83M$150.83M$922.22M$985.44M
7 Day Performance2.69%2.69%2.89%2.91%
1 Month Performance5.79%5.79%-0.39%5.47%
1 Year Performance12.82%12.82%-5.03%14.61%

Steel Partners Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SPLP
Steel Partners
3.9919 of 5 stars
$42.00
flat
N/A+12.8%$840.04M$2.03B4.314,500Positive News
SID
National Steel
0.9518 of 5 stars
$1.43
-0.3%
$1.30
-8.8%
-34.3%$1.90B$8.10B-4.0729,695
CSTM
Constellium
3.6887 of 5 stars
$13.05
+1.0%
$19.00
+45.6%
-25.3%$1.85B$7.34B28.3612,000
WS
Worthington Steel
3.5538 of 5 stars
$25.06
+2.3%
$34.00
+35.7%
-0.6%$1.24B$3.43B11.714,600Dividend Announcement
ASTL
Algoma Steel Group
1.4313 of 5 stars
$6.87
+1.0%
N/A+2.7%$713.55M$2.07B-4.462,844
MTUS
Metallus
0.9074 of 5 stars
$14.51
+1.4%
N/A-17.7%$602.57M$1.08B-29.021,880Insider Trade
UAMY
United States Antimony
2.1213 of 5 stars
$2.72
-0.4%
$3.38
+24.1%
+587.3%$323.96M$18.87M-68.0070News Coverage
Analyst Revision
LUD
Luda Technology Group
N/A$6.09
+2.0%
N/AN/A$138.18M$44.86M0.00161Gap Up
ACNT
Ascent Industries
0.1988 of 5 stars
$12.10
+0.1%
N/A+37.7%$121.02M$177.87M-11.75710
FRD
Friedman Industries
N/A$16.20
-3.1%
N/AN/A$117.96M$444.60M18.84100Analyst Upgrade
HUHU
HUHUTECH International Group
N/A$4.88
-9.6%
N/AN/A$113.67M$18.15M0.00N/A

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