ATI INC vs WORTHINGTON ENTERPRISES, INC., two Steel stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where ATI and WOR diverge most: on debt / equity, ATI reads 0.02 and WOR reads 0.30; on return on invested capital, ATI reads 30.2% and WOR reads 4.6%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. What WOR'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 | WOR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $187.47 | $56.21 |
| Market cap | $26.0B | $2.8B |
| Sector | Steel | Steel |
| Stage | Cyclical | Cyclical |
| P/E | 61.9 | 17.9 |
| P/B | 13.77 | 2.72 |
| P/S | 5.66 | 2.02 |
| EV/EBITDA | 30.9 | 23.0 |
| Revenue growth | +3.0% | +19.7% |
| Gross margin | 22.8% | 27.4% |
| Operating margin | 14.2% | 6.2% |
| Net margin | 9.3% | 11.3% |
| Return on equity | 22.6% | 15.2% |
| Return on assets | 8.1% | 8.4% |
| Return on invested capital | 30.2% | 4.6% |
| FCF yield | 2.1% | 6.1% |
| Dividend yield | — | 1.4% |
| Debt / equity | 0.02 | 0.30 |
| Current ratio | 2.67 | 2.37 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 6.20 | 3.56 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 6 / 9 | 6 / 9 |
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