COMMERCIAL METALS COMPANY vs Steel Dynamics, Inc., two Steel stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where CMC and STLD diverge most: on implied growth (priced in), CMC reads +0.9% and STLD reads +20.3%; on ev/ebitda, CMC reads 36.8 and STLD reads 14.9. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's CMC price has a different growth bar priced in than STLD (+0.9% implied for CMC vs +20.3% for STLD); the higher figure is the steeper assumption to clear, not a better or worse stock. What STLD'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 | CMC | STLD |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $68.65 | $251.05 |
| Market cap | $7.7B | $36.3B |
| Sector | Steel | Steel |
| Stage | Cyclical | Cyclical |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +0.9% | +20.3% |
| P/E | 13.0 | 22.8 |
| P/B | 1.69 | 3.85 |
| P/S | 0.87 | 1.77 |
| EV/EBITDA | 36.8 | 14.9 |
| Revenue growth | +15.4% | +19.4% |
| Gross margin | — | 15.7% |
| Operating margin | — | 11.5% |
| Net margin | 6.7% | 7.8% |
| Return on equity | 13.1% | 17.1% |
| Return on assets | 6.1% | 9.4% |
| Return on invested capital | — | 11.7% |
| FCF yield | 5.3% | 2.6% |
| Dividend yield | 1.1% | 0.8% |
| Debt / equity | 0.73 | 0.45 |
| Current ratio | 2.33 | 3.18 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 2.72 | 5.84 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 7 / 9 |
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