ZEUS vs. RYI, FSTR, WLKP, HAYN, EU, LAC, UAN, ASIX, NFGC, and LAAC
Should you be buying Olympic Steel stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Olympic Steel include Ryerson (RYI), L.B. Foster (FSTR), Westlake Chemical Partners (WLKP), Haynes International (HAYN), enCore Energy (EU), Lithium Americas (LAC), CVR Partners (UAN), AdvanSix (ASIX), New Found Gold (NFGC), and Lithium Americas (Argentina) (LAAC). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Olympic Steel (NASDAQ:ZEUS) and Ryerson (NYSE:RYI) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and valuation.
In the previous week, Ryerson had 18 more articles in the media than Olympic Steel. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Ryerson and 8 mentions for Olympic Steel. Olympic Steel's average media sentiment score of 0.34 beat Ryerson's score of -0.03 indicating that Olympic Steel is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Olympic Steel has a net margin of 2.06% compared to Ryerson's net margin of 1.84%. Ryerson's return on equity of 10.27% beat Olympic Steel's return on equity.
87.1% of Olympic Steel shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.8% of Ryerson shares are held by institutional investors. 13.8% of Olympic Steel shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.9% of Ryerson shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Ryerson has a consensus target price of $28.00, suggesting a potential upside of 22.59%. Given Ryerson's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Ryerson is more favorable than Olympic Steel.
Ryerson has higher revenue and earnings than Olympic Steel. Ryerson is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Olympic Steel, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Olympic Steel received 92 more outperform votes than Ryerson when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.26% of users gave Olympic Steel an outperform vote while only 58.06% of users gave Ryerson an outperform vote.
Olympic Steel has a beta of 1.67, indicating that its stock price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ryerson has a beta of 1.69, indicating that its stock price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Olympic Steel pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Ryerson pays an annual dividend of $0.75 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Olympic Steel pays out 15.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ryerson pays out 29.1% 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.
Summary
Olympic Steel beats Ryerson on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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