Carpenter Technology (CRS) Competitors

Commercial Metals (NYSE:CMC) and Carpenter Technology (NYSE:CRS) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership and dividends.

Which has more risk & volatility, CMC or CRS?

Commercial Metals has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Carpenter Technology has a beta of 1.56, suggesting that its stock price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor CMC or CRS?

Commercial Metals received 24 more outperform votes than Carpenter Technology when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.23% of users gave Carpenter Technology an outperform vote while only 54.17% of users gave Commercial Metals an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Commercial Metals	Outperform Votes 331 54.17%	Underperform Votes 280 45.83%
Carpenter Technology	Outperform Votes 307 64.23%	Underperform Votes 171 35.77%

Do institutionals & insiders have more ownership in CMC or CRS?

86.9% of Commercial Metals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.0% of Carpenter Technology shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Commercial Metals shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.4% of Carpenter Technology shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Do analysts prefer CMC or CRS?

Commercial Metals currently has a consensus price target of $57.67, indicating a potential upside of 7.83%. Carpenter Technology has a consensus price target of $81.67, indicating a potential downside of 2.78%. Given Carpenter Technology's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Commercial Metals is more favorable than Carpenter Technology.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Commercial Metals	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.33
Carpenter Technology	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Is CMC or CRS more profitable?

Commercial Metals has a net margin of 8.09% compared to Commercial Metals' net margin of 5.27%. Carpenter Technology's return on equity of 17.72% beat Commercial Metals' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Commercial Metals	8.09%	17.72%	11.09%
Carpenter Technology	5.27%	10.21%	4.64%

Which has preferable earnings & valuation, CMC or CRS?

Commercial Metals has higher revenue and earnings than Carpenter Technology. Commercial Metals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Carpenter Technology, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Commercial Metals	$8.41B	0.74	$859.76M	$5.76	9.28
Carpenter Technology	$2.72B	1.52	$56.40M	$2.89	29.07

Is CMC or CRS a better dividend stock?

Commercial Metals pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Carpenter Technology pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Commercial Metals pays out 12.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Carpenter Technology pays out 27.7% 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 has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Commercial Metals is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Does the media prefer CMC or CRS?

In the previous week, Carpenter Technology had 4 more articles in the media than Commercial Metals. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Carpenter Technology and 4 mentions for Commercial Metals. Carpenter Technology's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Commercial Metals' score of 0.17 indicating that Commercial Metals is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Commercial Metals	3 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Carpenter Technology	1 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	4 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Summary

Commercial Metals beats Carpenter Technology on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.