RUS vs. DBM, WJX, FTT, EIF, BBU.UN, CJT, SES, MDA, BDGI, and WTE
Should you be buying Russel Metals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Russel Metals include Doman Building Materials Group (DBM), Wajax (WJX), Finning International (FTT), Exchange Income (EIF), Brookfield Business Partners (BBU.UN), Cargojet (CJT), Secure Energy Services (SES), MDA (MDA), Badger Infrastructure Solutions (BDGI), and Westshore Terminals Investment (WTE). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Russel Metals (TSE:RUS) and Doman Building Materials Group (TSE:DBM) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk and community ranking.
Russel Metals has higher revenue and earnings than Doman Building Materials Group. Doman Building Materials Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Russel Metals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Russel Metals had 19 more articles in the media than Doman Building Materials Group. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Russel Metals and 1 mentions for Doman Building Materials Group. Doman Building Materials Group's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Russel Metals' score of -0.39 indicating that Doman Building Materials Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Russel Metals received 106 more outperform votes than Doman Building Materials Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.64% of users gave Doman Building Materials Group an outperform vote while only 67.90% of users gave Russel Metals an outperform vote.
Russel Metals pays an annual dividend of C$1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Doman Building Materials Group pays an annual dividend of C$0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.2%. Russel Metals pays out 37.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Doman Building Materials Group pays out 64.4% 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.
27.1% of Russel Metals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.6% of Doman Building Materials Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Russel Metals shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 20.1% of Doman Building Materials Group shares are held by 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.
Russel Metals has a net margin of 5.92% compared to Doman Building Materials Group's net margin of 3.04%. Russel Metals' return on equity of 16.67% beat Doman Building Materials Group's return on equity.
Russel Metals presently has a consensus target price of C$48.07, indicating a potential upside of 20.60%. Doman Building Materials Group has a consensus target price of C$10.29, indicating a potential upside of 31.44%. Given Doman Building Materials Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Doman Building Materials Group is more favorable than Russel Metals.
Russel Metals has a beta of 1.54, meaning that its stock price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Doman Building Materials Group has a beta of 1.56, meaning that its stock price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Russel Metals beats Doman Building Materials Group on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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