Applied Minerals (OTCMKTS:AMNL – Get Free Report) and Nucor (NYSE:NUE – Get Free Report) are both materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings and risk.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Applied Minerals and Nucor”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Applied Minerals | $1.41 million | 0.00 | -$3.28 million | ($0.01) | N/A |
| Nucor | $32.49 billion | 1.73 | $1.74 billion | $12.54 | 19.76 |
Institutional and Insider Ownership
27.0% of Applied Minerals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.5% of Nucor shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.7% of Applied Minerals shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Nucor shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Profitability
This table compares Applied Minerals and Nucor’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Applied Minerals | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Nucor | 7.99% | 12.73% | 8.03% |
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of current recommendations for Applied Minerals and Nucor, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Applied Minerals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Nucor | 0 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 2.75 |
Nucor has a consensus target price of $272.38, indicating a potential upside of 9.93%. Given Nucor’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Nucor is more favorable than Applied Minerals.
Risk and Volatility
Applied Minerals has a beta of -0.34, indicating that its stock price is 134% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nucor has a beta of 1.89, indicating that its stock price is 89% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Nucor beats Applied Minerals on 11 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Applied Minerals
Applied Minerals, Inc. extracts, processes, and markets halloysite clay and iron oxide. The company owns the Dragon mine property that consists of 38 patented and 6 unpatented mining claims covering an area of 267 acres located in Juab County, Utah. It provides halloysite clay-based line of products for use in various applications, such as molecular sieves and catalysts, flame retardant additives for plastics, binders for ceramics, nucleation and reinforcement of polymers, paints and coatings, batteries, agriculture, environmental remediation, controlled release carriers cosmetics, and others under the tradename DRAGONITE. The company also offers natural iron oxide-based products for the pigmentary and technical application markets under the trade name AMIRON. It markets and sells its products directly, as well as through employees, agents, and distributors. The company was formerly known as Atlas Mining Company and changed its name to Applied Minerals, Inc. in October 2009. Applied Minerals, Inc. was incorporated in 1924 is based in Eureka, Utah.
About Nucor
Nucor Corporation engages in manufacture and sale of steel and steel products. It operates in three segments: steel mills, steel products, and raw materials. The Steel Mills segment produces hot-rolled, cold-rolled, and galvanized sheet steel products; plate steel products; wide-flange beams, beam blanks, and H-piling and sheet piling structural steel products; bar steel products, such as blooms, billets, concrete reinforcing and merchant bars, and engineered special bar quality products; and engages in the steel trading and rebar distribution businesses. This segment sells its products to steel service centers, fabricators, and manufacturers in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The Steel Products segment offers steel joists and joist girders, steel decks, and galvanized torque tubes for used in solar arrays, hollow structural section steel tubing, electrical conduit, fabricated concrete reinforcing steel, cold finished steel, steel fasteners, steel grating and expanded metal, wire and wire mesh, metal building systems, insulated metal panels, steel racking, overhead doors, and utility towers and structures for communications and energy transmission. This segment is also involved in the piling distribution business. The Raw Materials segment produces direct reduced iron (DRI); brokers ferrous and nonferrous metals, pig iron, hot briquetted iron, and DRI; supplies ferro-alloys; processes ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal; and engages in the natural gas production and industrial gas business. This segment sells its ferrous scrap to electric arc furnace steel mills and foundries for manufacturing process; and nonferrous scrap metal to aluminum can producers, secondary aluminum smelters, steel mills and other processors, and consumers of various nonferrous metals. It markets its products through in-house sales force; and internal distribution and trading companies. Nucor Corporation was founded in 1905 and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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