WS vs. WOR, ROCK, HAYN, IIIN, SID, GGB, AGI, OLN, WFG, and CMC
Should you be buying Worthington Steel stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Worthington Steel include Worthington Enterprises (WOR), Gibraltar Industries (ROCK), Haynes International (HAYN), Insteel Industries (IIIN), Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (SID), Gerdau (GGB), Alamos Gold (AGI), Olin (OLN), West Fraser Timber (WFG), and Commercial Metals (CMC).
Worthington Steel (NYSE:WS) and Worthington Enterprises (NYSE:WOR) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings and profitability.
Worthington Enterprises has a net margin of 7.12% compared to Worthington Steel's net margin of 0.00%. Worthington Enterprises' return on equity of 19.40% beat Worthington Steel's return on equity.
Worthington Enterprises received 300 more outperform votes than Worthington Steel when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.00% of users gave Worthington Steel an outperform vote while only 53.72% of users gave Worthington Enterprises an outperform vote.
45.4% of Worthington Steel shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.6% of Worthington Enterprises shares are held by institutional investors. 38.5% of Worthington Enterprises shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Worthington Steel presently has a consensus target price of $40.00, suggesting a potential upside of 21.25%. Worthington Enterprises has a consensus target price of $61.00, suggesting a potential upside of 7.06%. Given Worthington Steel's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Worthington Steel is more favorable than Worthington Enterprises.
Worthington Enterprises has higher revenue and earnings than Worthington Steel.
Worthington Steel pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Worthington Enterprises pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Worthington Enterprises pays out 11.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, Worthington Enterprises had 5 more articles in the media than Worthington Steel. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Worthington Enterprises and 3 mentions for Worthington Steel. Worthington Steel's average media sentiment score of 1.26 beat Worthington Enterprises' score of 0.74 indicating that Worthington Steel is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Worthington Enterprises beats Worthington Steel on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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