WS vs. HAYN, FSM, HWKN, SAND, KRO, OEC, CGAU, ANDE, NGD, and SA
Should you be buying Worthington Steel stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Worthington Steel include Haynes International (HAYN), Fortuna Silver Mines (FSM), Hawkins (HWKN), Sandstorm Gold (SAND), Kronos Worldwide (KRO), Orion (OEC), Centerra Gold (CGAU), Andersons (ANDE), New Gold (NGD), and Seabridge Gold (SA). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Haynes International (NASDAQ:HAYN) and Worthington Steel (NYSE:WS) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Haynes International has higher revenue and earnings than Worthington Steel.
Haynes International pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Worthington Steel pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Haynes International pays out 29.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Haynes International has a net margin of 6.31% compared to Haynes International's net margin of 0.00%. Worthington Steel's return on equity of 8.79% beat Haynes International's return on equity.
97.3% of Haynes International shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.4% of Worthington Steel shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.1% of Haynes International shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Haynes International currently has a consensus price target of $60.00, indicating a potential upside of 1.63%. Worthington Steel has a consensus price target of $40.00, indicating a potential upside of 24.15%. Given Haynes International's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Worthington Steel is more favorable than Haynes International.
In the previous week, Haynes International had 10 more articles in the media than Worthington Steel. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Haynes International and 4 mentions for Worthington Steel. Haynes International's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat Worthington Steel's score of -0.15 indicating that Worthington Steel is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Haynes International received 217 more outperform votes than Worthington Steel when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.00% of users gave Worthington Steel an outperform vote while only 54.73% of users gave Haynes International an outperform vote.
Summary
Haynes International beats Worthington Steel on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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