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X vs. NUE, STLD, RS, CRS, ATI, CMC, CLF, WOR, RDUS, and ZEUS

Should you be buying United States Steel stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of United States Steel include Nucor (NUE), Steel Dynamics (STLD), Reliance (RS), Carpenter Technology (CRS), ATI (ATI), Commercial Metals (CMC), Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF), Worthington Enterprises (WOR), Radius Recycling (RDUS), and Olympic Steel (ZEUS). These companies are all part of the "steel" industry.

United States Steel vs. Its Competitors

Nucor (NYSE:NUE) and United States Steel (NYSE:X) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, profitability, valuation, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.

United States Steel received 226 more outperform votes than Nucor when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.21% of users gave Nucor an outperform vote while only 55.26% of users gave United States Steel an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
NucorOutperform Votes
698
64.21%
Underperform Votes
389
35.79%
United States SteelOutperform Votes
924
55.26%
Underperform Votes
748
44.74%

Nucor presently has a consensus target price of $157.22, indicating a potential upside of 29.04%. United States Steel has a consensus target price of $43.80, indicating a potential downside of 16.06%. Given Nucor's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Nucor is more favorable than United States Steel.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Nucor
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
7 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
United States Steel
1 Sell rating(s)
6 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

Nucor has a net margin of 6.60% compared to United States Steel's net margin of 2.46%. Nucor's return on equity of 9.85% beat United States Steel's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Nucor6.60% 9.85% 6.25%
United States Steel 2.46%4.27%2.40%

76.5% of Nucor shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.9% of United States Steel shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Nucor shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of United States Steel shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Nucor pays an annual dividend of $2.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. United States Steel pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Nucor pays out 39.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. United States Steel pays out 69.0% 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. Nucor has raised its dividend for 52 consecutive years. Nucor is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Nucor has higher revenue and earnings than United States Steel. Nucor 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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Nucor$30.43B0.92$2.03B$5.6221.68
United States Steel$15.21B0.78$384M$0.29179.91

Nucor has a beta of 1.68, suggesting that its share price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, United States Steel has a beta of 1.87, suggesting that its share price is 87% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Nucor had 26 more articles in the media than United States Steel. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for Nucor and 6 mentions for United States Steel. Nucor's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat United States Steel's score of 0.53 indicating that Nucor is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Nucor
15 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
4 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
United States Steel
3 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Nucor beats United States Steel on 17 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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X vs. The Competition

MetricUnited States SteelBlast furnaces & steel mills IndustryMaterials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$11.81B$12.44B$3.19B$19.65B
Dividend Yield0.38%3.78%5.03%3.82%
P/E Ratio35.0217.8269.7135.03
Price / Sales0.780.8426,914,679,906,569,100.0042.85
Price / Cash6.096.6124.2617.51
Price / Book1.031.335.384.78
Net Income$384M$1.26B$155.18M$1.02B
7 Day Performance-2.06%0.82%1.00%-0.35%
1 Month Performance24.85%3.18%7.33%1.04%
1 Year Performance41.93%6.07%23.61%9.19%

United States Steel Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
X
United States Steel
3.3187 of 5 stars
$52.17
-2.9%
$43.80
-16.1%
+44.4%$11.81B$15.21B35.0222,700Gap Down
High Trading Volume
NUE
Nucor
4.9243 of 5 stars
$121.71
+2.5%
$157.22
+29.2%
-23.3%$28.08B$30.43B14.4728,800
STLD
Steel Dynamics
4.6435 of 5 stars
$133.56
+1.1%
$147.44
+10.4%
+9.2%$19.83B$17.22B13.6310,600Short Interest ↑
RS
Reliance
3.2346 of 5 stars
$310.24
+1.0%
$319.00
+2.8%
+10.3%$16.15B$13.67B20.0914,500Trending News
CRS
Carpenter Technology
3.6645 of 5 stars
$248.78
+0.7%
$168.00
-32.5%
+134.9%$12.30B$2.92B46.944,100
ATI
ATI
3.2447 of 5 stars
$84.04
+1.5%
$78.29
-6.8%
+44.0%$11.86B$4.46B32.967,300
CMC
Commercial Metals
4.4296 of 5 stars
$49.98
+2.1%
$58.00
+16.0%
-5.1%$5.65B$7.74B45.0312,500Positive News
CLF
Cleveland-Cliffs
2.8152 of 5 stars
$7.60
+7.0%
$12.74
+67.6%
-52.4%$3.51B$18.62B-7.8426,000Short Interest ↑
Analyst Revision
High Trading Volume
WOR
Worthington Enterprises
4.1046 of 5 stars
$60.20
+1.5%
$52.33
-13.1%
+15.1%$3.01B$1.15B72.538,400Positive News
RDUS
Radius Recycling
1.6213 of 5 stars
$29.62
+0.1%
$22.00
-25.7%
+84.5%$835.34M$223.36M-2.963,353Positive News
ZEUS
Olympic Steel
4.6189 of 5 stars
$31.61
+0.5%
$41.00
+29.7%
-34.5%$352.86M$1.91B16.051,670Positive News

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