WS vs. SID, CSTM, SPLP, MTUS, ASTL, UAMY, ACNT, HUHU, LUD, and INHD
Should you be buying Worthington Steel stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Worthington Steel include Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (SID), Constellium (CSTM), Steel Partners (SPLP), Metallus (MTUS), Algoma Steel Group (ASTL), United States Antimony (UAMY), Ascent Industries (ACNT), HUHUTECH International Group (HUHU), Luda Technology Group (LUD), and Inno (INHD). These companies are all part of the "steel works" industry.
Worthington Steel vs.
Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (NYSE:SID) and Worthington Steel (NYSE:WS) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, community ranking and media sentiment.
Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional presently has a consensus target price of $1.30, suggesting a potential downside of 22.85%. Worthington Steel has a consensus target price of $34.00, suggesting a potential upside of 32.19%. Given Worthington Steel's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Worthington Steel is more favorable than Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional.
Worthington Steel has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional. Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Worthington Steel, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional has a beta of 1.82, indicating that its share price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Worthington Steel has a beta of 2.03, indicating that its share price is 103% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Worthington Steel had 1 more articles in the media than Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Worthington Steel and 2 mentions for Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional. Worthington Steel's average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional's score of 1.19 indicating that Worthington Steel is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional pays an annual dividend of $0.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.1%. Worthington Steel pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional pays out -61.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Worthington Steel pays out 29.9% 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. Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
45.4% of Worthington Steel shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Worthington Steel shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Worthington Steel has a net margin of 4.36% compared to Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional's net margin of -2.37%. Worthington Steel's return on equity of 12.59% beat Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional's return on equity.
Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional received 242 more outperform votes than Worthington Steel when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.67% of users gave Worthington Steel an outperform vote while only 54.30% of users gave Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional an outperform vote.
Summary
Worthington Steel beats Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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