ATI Inc. vs CARPENTER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, two Steel stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where ATI and CRS diverge most: on revenue growth, ATI reads +4.7% and CRS reads +8.5%; on net margin, ATI reads 10.1% and CRS reads 17.0%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. What CRS's price implies is a somewhat stretched bet versus history (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | ATI | CRS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $198.47 | $443.37 |
| Market cap | $27.4B | $22.3B |
| Sector | Steel | Steel |
| Stage | Cyclical | Cyclical |
| P/E | 58.0 | 42.1 |
| P/B | 13.74 | 9.99 |
| P/S | 5.82 | 7.12 |
| EV/EBITDA | 30.3 | 26.6 |
| Revenue growth | +4.7% | +8.5% |
| Gross margin | 24.6% | 31.6% |
| Operating margin | 17.4% | 24.3% |
| Net margin | 10.1% | 17.0% |
| Return on equity | 23.8% | 23.8% |
| Return on assets | 8.3% | 13.8% |
| Return on invested capital | 24.1% | 19.1% |
| FCF yield | 1.9% | 1.6% |
| Dividend yield | — | 0.2% |
| Debt / equity | 0.19 | 0.31 |
| Current ratio | 2.33 | 3.81 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 5.92 | 8.25 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 6 / 9 | 8 / 9 |
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