Alcoa Corp vs COMMERCIAL METALS COMPANY, two Steel stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where AA and CMC diverge most: on revenue growth, AA reads +0.2% and CMC reads +15.4%; on debt / equity, AA reads 0.02 and CMC reads 0.73. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's AA price has a different growth bar priced in than CMC (+4.8% implied for AA vs +13.6% for CMC); the higher figure is the steeper assumption to clear, not a better or worse stock. What AA's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (segment-resolved basis). What CMC's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | AA | CMC |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $48.66 | $62.63 |
| Market cap | $12.9B | $7.0B |
| Sector | Steel | Steel |
| Stage | Cyclical | Cyclical |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +4.8% | +13.6% |
| P/E | 12.5 | 11.8 |
| P/B | 1.90 | 1.54 |
| P/S | 1.02 | 0.79 |
| EV/EBITDA | 18.4 | 27.4 |
| Revenue growth | +0.2% | +15.4% |
| Net margin | 8.2% | 6.7% |
| Return on equity | 15.2% | 13.1% |
| Return on assets | 6.2% | 6.1% |
| FCF yield | 2.2% | 5.8% |
| Dividend yield | 0.2% | 1.1% |
| Debt / equity | 0.02 | 0.73 |
| Current ratio | 1.48 | 2.33 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 1.70 | 2.64 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 4 / 9 | 8 / 9 |
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