RYI vs. ZEUS, FSTR, DRD, HAYN, GATO, WLKP, TGB, EXK, ASTL, and MERC
Should you be buying Ryerson stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ryerson include Olympic Steel (ZEUS), L.B. Foster (FSTR), DRDGOLD (DRD), Haynes International (HAYN), Gatos Silver (GATO), Westlake Chemical Partners (WLKP), Taseko Mines (TGB), Endeavour Silver (EXK), Algoma Steel Group (ASTL), and Mercer International (MERC). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Ryerson (NYSE:RYI) and Olympic Steel (NASDAQ:ZEUS) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, valuation, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk and community ranking.
Ryerson presently has a consensus target price of $28.00, indicating a potential upside of 22.00%. Given Ryerson's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly 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.
In the previous week, Ryerson had 3 more articles in the media than Olympic Steel. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Ryerson and 0 mentions for Olympic Steel. Ryerson's average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat Olympic Steel's score of 0.00 indicating that Ryerson is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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.
94.8% of Ryerson shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.1% of Olympic Steel shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.9% of Ryerson shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.8% of Olympic Steel shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Ryerson pays an annual dividend of $0.75 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Olympic Steel pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Ryerson pays out 29.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Olympic Steel pays out 16.0% 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.
Ryerson has a beta of 1.69, suggesting that its share price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Olympic Steel has a beta of 1.67, suggesting that its share price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Olympic Steel has a net margin of 2.05% compared to Ryerson's net margin of 1.84%. Ryerson's return on equity of 10.27% beat Olympic Steel's return on equity.
Summary
Ryerson beats Olympic Steel on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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