Alcoa Corp vs CARPENTER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, two Steel stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where AA and CRS diverge most: on revenue growth, AA reads +0.2% and CRS reads +4.0%; on debt / equity, AA reads 0.02 and CRS reads 0.33. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. What AA's price implies is a somewhat stretched bet versus history (whole-company basis). What CRS's price implies is a demanding bet versus history and the cohort (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | AA | CRS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $44.24 | $603.51 |
| Market cap | $11.8B | $30.4B |
| Sector | Steel | Steel |
| Stage | Cyclical | Cyclical |
| P/E | 11.3 | 63.5 |
| P/B | 1.72 | 14.68 |
| P/S | 0.93 | 10.02 |
| EV/EBITDA | 16.5 | 38.9 |
| Revenue growth | +0.2% | +4.0% |
| Gross margin | — | 31.0% |
| Operating margin | — | 23.0% |
| Net margin | 8.2% | 15.8% |
| Return on equity | 15.2% | 23.2% |
| Return on assets | 6.2% | 13.0% |
| Return on invested capital | — | 18.5% |
| FCF yield | 2.4% | 1.3% |
| Dividend yield | 0.2% | 0.1% |
| Debt / equity | 0.02 | 0.33 |
| Current ratio | 1.48 | 3.73 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 1.63 | 8.22 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 4 / 9 | 8 / 9 |
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