Basic Materials
Live Price
Offline$40.73
+3.90% today
1Y Change
+70.23%
Window
Jun 20, 2025 → Jun 15, 2026
Coverage: 248 bars · Jun 20, 2025 → Jun 15, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Worthington Steel, Inc. (WS) is a Basic Materials stock with a market cap of $1.93B and listed on NYSE. The stock last traded around $40.73 and up 70.2% across the available one-year price window (Jun 20, 2025 → Jun 15, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of -9.8%, EPS growth of -28.7%, a dividend yield of 1.7%. What stands out right now is revenue -9.8%, EPS -28.7%, free cash flow +4.0% with operating margin 4.1% and ROIC 5.8%. The dividend is present but secondary, with a yield around 1.7%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at P/E 15.6 and price/sales 0.6. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a turnaround or cyclical reset than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines WS price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Basic Materials peers on this page.
Benchmark Comparison
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WS
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Normalized return
SPY
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
WS Max Drawdown
-42.29%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Trailing 1Y
Uses the longest available daily history for WS and SPY.
Financial profile
Profitability, balance sheet stamina, and cash efficiency drawn from the latest filings.
FY Revenue
$2.1B
-47.7% YoY
FY Net Income
$171.0M
-5.2% YoY
Free Cash Flow
$123.7M
+3958.7% YoY
Revenue Growth
-9.8%
EPS Growth
-28.7%
Gross Margin
12.3%
Net Margin
3.6%
Income statement
USD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 3.1B | 3.4B | 3.6B | 4.1B | 2.1B |
| Gross Profit | 389M | 440M | 337M | 396M | 371M |
| Operating Income | 147M | 195M | 120M | 227M | 222M |
| EBITDA | 221M | 288M | 201M | 317M | 268M |
| Net Income | 111M | 155M | 87M | 180M | 171M |
| EPS (Diluted) | — | — | — | — | — |
Balance sheet
USD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | 38M | 40M | 33M | 20M | 17M |
| Total Assets | 2.0B | 1.9B | 1.8B | 2.1B | 1.4B |
| Total Liabilities | 764M | 749M | 610M | 818M | 552M |
| Shareholder Equity | 1.1B | 985M | 1.0B | 1.1B | 661M |
| Total Debt | 228M | 224M | 80M | 154M | 8M |
| Net Debt | 190M | 184M | 48M | 134M | -9M |
Cash flow positioning
Latest Full Year
Operating Cash Flow
153M
+286.3% YoY
Capital Expenditures
29M
+21.0% YoY
Free Cash Flow
124M
+3958.7% YoY
Key ratios
Gross Margin
12.3%
Operating Margin
4.1%
Net Margin
3.6%
ROE
11.0%
Debt / Equity
0.31x
Next Step
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