PACK vs. ZEUS, MUX, ARMN, ODC, CMP, ASIX, MTAL, LWLG, EXK, and DRD
Should you be buying Ranpak stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ranpak include Olympic Steel (ZEUS), McEwen Mining (MUX), Aris Mining (ARMN), Oil-Dri Co. of America (ODC), Compass Minerals International (CMP), AdvanSix (ASIX), Metals Acquisition (MTAL), Lightwave Logic (LWLG), Endeavour Silver (EXK), and DRDGOLD (DRD). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Olympic Steel (NASDAQ:ZEUS) and Ranpak (NYSE:PACK) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, profitability, community ranking and risk.
Olympic Steel has a beta of 1.67, suggesting that its stock price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ranpak has a beta of 2.31, suggesting that its stock price is 131% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Olympic Steel has higher revenue and earnings than Ranpak. Ranpak 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 has a net margin of 2.05% compared to Olympic Steel's net margin of -6.70%. Ranpak's return on equity of 6.39% beat Olympic Steel's return on equity.
Ranpak has a consensus price target of $9.00, suggesting a potential upside of 35.34%. Given Olympic Steel's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Ranpak is more favorable than Olympic Steel.
Olympic Steel received 348 more outperform votes than Ranpak when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.26% of users gave Olympic Steel an outperform vote while only 36.84% of users gave Ranpak an outperform vote.
87.1% of Olympic Steel shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.9% of Ranpak shares are held by institutional investors. 13.8% of Olympic Steel shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.4% of Ranpak shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Olympic Steel's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Ranpak's score of 0.00 indicating that Ranpak is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Olympic Steel beats Ranpak on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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