X vs. CMC, STLD, TX, MT, CLF, EMN, MOS, AU, IP, and FMC
Should you be buying United States Steel stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of United States Steel include Commercial Metals (CMC), Steel Dynamics (STLD), Ternium (TX), ArcelorMittal (MT), Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF), Eastman Chemical (EMN), Mosaic (MOS), AngloGold Ashanti (AU), International Paper (IP), and FMC (FMC). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Commercial Metals (NYSE:CMC) and United States Steel (NYSE:X) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and community ranking.
United States Steel has higher revenue and earnings than Commercial Metals. Commercial Metals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than United States Steel, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Commercial Metals pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. United States Steel pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Commercial Metals pays out 9.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. United States Steel pays out 5.7% 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.
Commercial Metals presently has a consensus target price of $56.25, indicating a potential upside of 4.58%. United States Steel has a consensus target price of $32.78, indicating a potential downside of 15.67%. Given United States Steel's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Commercial Metals is more favorable than United States Steel.
Commercial Metals has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, United States Steel has a beta of 2.02, meaning that its share price is 102% more volatile than the S&P 500.
United States Steel received 579 more outperform votes than Commercial Metals when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.04% of users gave United States Steel an outperform vote while only 54.28% of users gave Commercial Metals an outperform vote.
82.6% of Commercial Metals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.6% of United States Steel shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Commercial Metals shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of United States Steel shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Commercial Metals has a net margin of 9.03% compared to Commercial Metals' net margin of 4.96%. United States Steel's return on equity of 19.89% beat Commercial Metals' return on equity.
In the previous week, United States Steel had 40 more articles in the media than Commercial Metals. MarketBeat recorded 47 mentions for United States Steel and 7 mentions for Commercial Metals. United States Steel's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Commercial Metals' score of 0.58 indicating that Commercial Metals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Commercial Metals beats United States Steel on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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