CARPENTER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION vs ArcelorMittal, two Steel stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Carpenter Technology makes premium aerospace and medical alloys; ArcelorMittal makes commodity steel by the megaton, and their valuations sit at opposite extremes of the metals world. Carpenter earns 23.17% on equity at a 15.82% net margin, aerospace-grade economics the market rewards with a 62 P/E and 14.4 times book; ArcelorMittal earns 5.74% at 5.29% and trades below book at 0.81 on a 14.5 P/E. ArcelorMittal's compensation is cash, a 10.52% free-cash yield against Carpenter's 1.37%. The pair is scarcity against scale: Carpenter's specialty metals into a tight aerospace supply chain command a growth multiple, ArcelorMittal's commodity steel trades on the cheap cyclical math of a business priced below the worth of its mills.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | CRS | MT |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $591.50 | $59.90 |
| Market cap | $29.8B | $45.7B |
| Sector | Steel | Steel |
| Stage | Cyclical | Cyclical |
| Implied growth (priced in) | — | +10.0% |
| P/E | 62.3 | 14.5 |
| P/B | 14.39 | 0.81 |
| P/S | 9.82 | 0.74 |
| EV/EBITDA | 38.1 | 6.1 |
| Revenue growth | +4.0% | -5.1% |
| Gross margin | 31.0% | 7.1% |
| Operating margin | 23.0% | 5.9% |
| Net margin | 15.8% | 5.3% |
| Return on equity | 23.2% | 5.7% |
| Return on assets | 13.0% | 3.3% |
| Return on invested capital | 18.5% | 5.8% |
| FCF yield | 1.4% | 10.5% |
| Dividend yield | 0.1% | — |
| Debt / equity | 0.33 | 0.00 |
| Current ratio | 3.73 | 1.36 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 8.22 | 2.23 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 6 / 9 |
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