Basic Materials
Live Price
Offline$396.34
-1.92% today
1Y Change
+33.65%
Window
Jun 23, 2025 → Jun 12, 2026
Coverage: 245 bars · Jun 23, 2025 → Jun 12, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. (RS) is a Basic Materials stock with a market cap of $18.52B and listed on NYSE. The stock last traded around $396.34 and up 33.7% across the available one-year price window (Jun 23, 2025 → Jun 12, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +3.3%, EPS growth of -10.4%, a dividend yield of 1.3%. What stands out right now is revenue +3.3%, EPS -10.4%, free cash flow -49.7% with operating margin 7.5% and ROIC 8.7%. The dividend is present but secondary, with a yield around 1.3%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at P/E 23.2 and price/sales 1.2. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a turnaround or cyclical reset than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines RS price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Basic Materials peers on this page.
Benchmark Comparison
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RS
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Normalized return
SPY
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
RS Max Drawdown
-22.62%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Trailing 1Y
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Financial profile
Profitability, balance sheet stamina, and cash efficiency drawn from the latest filings.
FY Revenue
$14.1B
-17.2% YoY
FY Net Income
$1.4B
-23.2% YoY
Free Cash Flow
$562.8M
-68.3% YoY
Revenue Growth
+3.3%
EPS Growth
-10.4%
Gross Margin
27.2%
Net Margin
5.4%
Income statement
USD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 14.3B | 13.8B | 14.8B | 17.0B | 14.1B |
| Gross Profit | 3.8B | 3.8B | 4.3B | 5.0B | 4.3B |
| Operating Income | 1.0B | 1.2B | 1.7B | 2.5B | 2.0B |
| EBITDA | 1.3B | 1.4B | 2.0B | 2.7B | 2.3B |
| Net Income | 739M | 875M | 1.3B | 1.8B | 1.4B |
| EPS (Diluted) | — | — | — | — | — |
Balance sheet
USD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | 217M | 318M | 1.1B | 1.2B | 301M |
| Total Assets | 10.4B | 10.0B | 10.5B | 10.3B | 9.5B |
| Total Liabilities | 3.2B | 2.8B | 2.7B | 3.2B | 3.4B |
| Shareholder Equity | 7.2B | 7.2B | 7.7B | 7.1B | 6.1B |
| Total Debt | 2.0B | 1.4B | 1.4B | 1.9B | 1.9B |
| Net Debt | 1.8B | 1.1B | 297M | 692M | 1.6B |
Cash flow positioning
Latest Full Year
Operating Cash Flow
799M
-62.3% YoY
Capital Expenditures
237M
+30.8% YoY
Free Cash Flow
563M
-68.3% YoY
Key ratios
Gross Margin
27.2%
Operating Margin
7.5%
Net Margin
5.4%
ROE
11.2%
Debt / Equity
0.28x
Next Step
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