TS vs. NUE, STLD, MT, X, TX, CMC, CRS, MTUS, SXC, and ASTL
Should you be buying Tenaris stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tenaris include Nucor (NUE), Steel Dynamics (STLD), ArcelorMittal (MT), United States Steel (X), Ternium (TX), Commercial Metals (CMC), Carpenter Technology (CRS), Metallus (MTUS), SunCoke Energy (SXC), and Algoma Steel Group (ASTL). These companies are all part of the "blast furnaces & steel mills" industry.
Nucor (NYSE:NUE) and Tenaris (NYSE:TS) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation and dividends.
Nucor presently has a consensus target price of $192.75, indicating a potential upside of 14.15%. Tenaris has a consensus target price of $41.60, indicating a potential upside of 26.18%. Given Nucor's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Tenaris is more favorable than Nucor.
Tenaris has a net margin of 24.89% compared to Tenaris' net margin of 12.40%. Nucor's return on equity of 21.11% beat Tenaris' return on equity.
Nucor has higher revenue and earnings than Tenaris. Tenaris is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nucor, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Nucor has a beta of 1.65, indicating that its stock price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tenaris has a beta of 1.51, indicating that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Nucor received 268 more outperform votes than Tenaris when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.39% of users gave Nucor an outperform vote while only 61.93% of users gave Tenaris an outperform vote.
Nucor pays an annual dividend of $2.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Tenaris pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Nucor pays out 12.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Tenaris pays out 26.7% 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. Nucor has increased its dividend for 51 consecutive years and Tenaris has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
76.5% of Nucor shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.5% of Tenaris shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Nucor shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Tenaris shares are owned 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, Nucor had 3 more articles in the media than Tenaris. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Nucor and 1 mentions for Tenaris. Tenaris' average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat Nucor's score of 0.89 indicating that Nucor is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Nucor beats Tenaris on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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