Federal Screw Works (OTCMKTS:FSCR – Get Free Report) and Cemex (NYSE:CX – Get Free Report) are both materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, profitability, risk and institutional ownership.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
83.0% of Cemex shares are held by institutional investors. 46.2% of Federal Screw Works shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Cemex shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Federal Screw Works and Cemex”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Federal Screw Works | $97.55 million | 0.10 | $1.62 million | $0.71 | 10.06 |
| Cemex | $16.13 billion | 0.97 | $960.00 million | $0.34 | 31.76 |
Cemex has higher revenue and earnings than Federal Screw Works. Federal Screw Works is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cemex, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for Federal Screw Works and Cemex, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Federal Screw Works | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Cemex | 0 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 2.58 |
Cemex has a consensus target price of $13.07, indicating a potential upside of 20.99%. Given Cemex’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Cemex is more favorable than Federal Screw Works.
Volatility & Risk
Federal Screw Works has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cemex has a beta of 1.53, suggesting that its share price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares Federal Screw Works and Cemex’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Federal Screw Works | 0.99% | N/A | N/A |
| Cemex | 2.83% | 3.82% | 1.80% |
Summary
Cemex beats Federal Screw Works on 12 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Federal Screw Works
Federal Screw Works manufactures and sells industrial component parts primarily to the automobile industry in the United States. It operates through Big Rapids, Romulus, Traverse City, and Novex Tool divisions. The company offers cold formed and machined pins, including piston pins, planetary and differential gear shafts, and oil pump and steering shafts for the automotive, refrigeration, and small engine industries; and cold formed machined products, such as suspension ball studs, fluid line adapters, and precision formed and machined valve lifter bodies to the automotive industry. It also provides close tolerance machined products that are used in transmission valves, ball joints, steering gear bulkhead assemblies, torque converter hubs, and piston pins; and engineered nut products comprising prevailing torque nuts, free spinning nuts, slotted nuts, nut retainer assemblies, and nut washer assemblies to the automotive industry. In addition, the company offers cold form tooling products, which include assemblies, sleeves, dies, and punches; and complex cold formed parts, such as tie rod housings, valve lifter bodies, and suspension components. Federal Screw Works was founded in 1917 and is based in Romulus, Michigan.
About Cemex
CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V., together with its subsidiaries, produces, markets, distributes, and sells cement, ready-mix concrete, aggregates, urbanization solutions, and other construction materials and services worldwide. The company offers gray ordinary portland, white portland, oil-well, and blended cement products; mortar; and standard ready-mix, architectural and decorative, rapid-setting, fiber-reinforced, fluid-fill, roller-compacted, self-consolidating, pervious, and antibacterial, and other concrete products. It also provides crushed stone, sand, gravel, and recycled concrete products; performance materials, such as admixtures, mortars, special mortars, and asphalt; and waste management services comprising municipal and industrial, construction, demolition and excavation, and alternative raw materials. In addition, the company construction related services, including logistics and transportation, retail, pavement services, design and engineering, and others; and industrial construction products consist of precast components, 2D panels, 3D modules, and complete structures. CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V. was founded in 1906 and is headquartered in San Pedro Garza García, Mexico.
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