CRS vs. CMC, X, TX, MT, ALTM, NEU, VVV, BCPC, ASH, and CBT
Should you be buying Carpenter Technology stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Carpenter Technology include Commercial Metals (CMC), United States Steel (X), Ternium (TX), ArcelorMittal (MT), Arcadium Lithium (ALTM), NewMarket (NEU), Valvoline (VVV), Balchem (BCPC), Ashland (ASH), and Cabot (CBT). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Commercial Metals (NYSE:CMC) and Carpenter Technology (NYSE:CRS) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.
Commercial Metals presently has a consensus target price of $57.67, indicating a potential upside of 0.12%. Carpenter Technology has a consensus target price of $109.67, indicating a potential downside of 0.15%. Given Carpenter Technology's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Commercial Metals is more favorable than Carpenter Technology.
86.9% of Commercial Metals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.0% of Carpenter Technology shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Commercial Metals shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.4% of Carpenter Technology shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Commercial Metals has a net margin of 8.09% compared to Commercial Metals' net margin of 4.83%. Carpenter Technology's return on equity of 17.72% beat Commercial Metals' return on equity.
In the previous week, Commercial Metals had 1 more articles in the media than Carpenter Technology. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Commercial Metals and 8 mentions for Carpenter Technology. Carpenter Technology's average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat Commercial Metals' score of 1.16 indicating that Commercial Metals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Commercial Metals received 23 more outperform votes than Carpenter Technology when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.24% of users gave Carpenter Technology an outperform vote while only 54.25% of users gave Commercial Metals an outperform vote.
Commercial Metals has a beta of 1.35, meaning that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Carpenter Technology has a beta of 1.47, meaning that its stock price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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 0.7%. Commercial Metals pays out 12.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Carpenter Technology pays out 30.4% 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. Commercial Metals has increased 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.
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.
Summary
Commercial Metals beats Carpenter Technology on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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