ATI vs Commercial Metals
ATI and CMC side by side, both in steel works, blast furnaces, and rolling and finishing mills. Figures are trailing twelve months unless noted, from SEC filings and end-of-day prices.
How ATI and CMC compare
ATI is the larger company, worth 3.2 times as much as Commercial Metals ($22.5B against $7.1B).
On earnings, Commercial Metals is cheaper: it trades at 10.9× trailing earnings, against 41.4× for ATI.
Commercial Metals grew revenue faster over the last twelve months (20.5% versus 9.4% for ATI).
ATI keeps more of each dollar of sales as profit, with a net margin of 11.1% compared with 7.0% at Commercial Metals.
Commercial Metals pays a dividend yielding 0.91%; ATI does not pay one.
Commercial Metals scores higher on the StockData Score (15 against 12 for ATI), which adds up 30 checks on valuation, growth, past performance, financial health and dividends.
Key numbers
A dot marks the better figure where higher or lower is clearly better.
| Metric | ATI | CMC |
|---|---|---|
| Size and price | ||
| Market cap | $22.5B | $7.1B |
| Share price | $165.59 | $63.98 |
| Change, 1 year | 60.8% | 4.8% |
| Change, 5 years | 833% | 89.4% |
| Beta (5Y) | 1.37 | 1.15 |
| Employees | 7,600 | 14K |
| StockData Score | ||
| Total score | 12 | 15 (better) |
| Valuation score | 0 | 3 (better) |
| Growth score | 3 | 3 |
| Performance score | 5 (better) | 3 |
| Health score | 4 (better) | 2 |
| Dividend score | 0 | 4 (better) |
| Valuation | ||
| P/E | 41.4× | 10.9× (better) |
| P/S | 4.5× | 0.8× (better) |
| P/B | 11.2× | 1.5× (better) |
| EV/EBITDA | 24.0× | 8.7× (better) |
| P/FCF | 53.5× | 14.8× (better) |
| PEG | 4.86 | – |
| FCF yield | 1.9% | 6.8% (better) |
| Fair value | $91.68 | $76.98 |
| Margin of safety | −80.6% | 16.9% (better) |
| Growth | ||
| Revenue growth (TTM) | 9.4% | 20.5% (better) |
| Revenue growth, 5Y average | 9.0% (better) | 6.9% |
| Net income growth (TTM) | 24.9% | 675% (better) |
| EPS growth (TTM) | 29.4% | 692% (better) |
| EPS growth, 5Y average | – | 11.6% |
| Profitability | ||
| Gross margin | 24.5% (better) | 18.6% |
| Operating margin | 16.5% | – |
| Net margin | 11.1% (better) | 7.0% |
| FCF margin | 8.4% (better) | 5.1% |
| Return on equity | 29.9% (better) | 14.8% |
| Return on invested capital | 20.2% | – |
| Financial health | ||
| Debt / equity | 0.93 | 0.72 (better) |
| Net debt / EBITDA | 1.41 (better) | 2.35 |
| Current ratio | 2.77 (better) | 2.34 |
| Altman Z-score | 5.98 (better) | 2.63 |
| Piotroski F-score | 8 (better) | 7 |
| Dividends and buybacks | ||
| Dividend yield | – | 0.91% |
| Payout ratio | – | 12.8% |
| Years of dividend growth | – | 5 |
| Dividend growth, 5Y average | – | 9.6% |
| Buyback yield | 0.86% | 1.5% (better) |
| Shareholder yield | 0.86% | 2.4% (better) |
| Ownership | ||
| Held by institutions | 94.2% | 93.8% |
| Held by insiders | 0.91% | 0.84% |
| Insider net buying, 12 months | −$82.6M | −$1.2M (better) |
| Superinvestors holding | 1 | – |
| Short interest, % of float | 3.5% | 5.8% |
Go deeper
- ATI stock overview
- ATI income statement
- ATI valuation and score
- CMC stock overview
- CMC income statement
- CMC valuation and score
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