RYI vs. ZEUS, FSTR, GWAV, RS, IOSP, TROX, OR, CALM, SLVM, and MTX
Should you be buying Ryerson stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ryerson include Olympic Steel (ZEUS), L.B. Foster (FSTR), Greenwave Technology Solutions (GWAV), Reliance (RS), Innospec (IOSP), Tronox (TROX), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Cal-Maine Foods (CALM), Sylvamo (SLVM), and Minerals Technologies (MTX).
Olympic Steel (NASDAQ:ZEUS) and Ryerson (NYSE:RYI) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, valuation, earnings, community ranking, risk and institutional ownership.
Olympic Steel has a beta of 1.67, meaning that its share price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ryerson has a beta of 1.69, meaning that its share price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
Olympic Steel pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Ryerson pays an annual dividend of $0.75 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Olympic Steel pays out 16.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ryerson pays out 29.1% 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. Olympic Steel has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Ryerson has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
87.1% of Olympic Steel shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.8% of Ryerson shares are held by institutional investors. 13.8% of Olympic Steel shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.9% of Ryerson shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Ryerson had 4 more articles in the media than Olympic Steel. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Ryerson and 1 mentions for Olympic Steel. Ryerson's average media sentiment score of 1.88 beat Olympic Steel's score of 1.57 indicating that Olympic Steel 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.
Olympic Steel has a net margin of 2.05% compared to Olympic Steel's net margin of 1.84%. Olympic Steel's return on equity of 10.27% beat Ryerson's return on equity.
Ryerson has a consensus price target of $28.00, indicating a potential upside of 17.89%. Given Olympic Steel's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Ryerson is more favorable than Olympic Steel.
Summary
Olympic Steel and Ryerson tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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