Adversity is less terrifying than hope: Ryerson Holding Corp (RYI)

With 0.15 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.24 million shares. During the session, the Metal Fabrication company that operates in wider Industrials sector, reached to the highest price of $21.15 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $20.67. The 52-week range on RYI shows that it touched its highest point at $36.15 and its lowest point at $17.18 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $23.00. With its current market cap of 661.15 million, RYI has annualized dividend of $0.75 while the current yield stands at 3.61%. RYI paid its most recent dividend on 1733356800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1733356800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.59.

Price Performance and Earnings:

Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of RYI was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 14.57%, but this was down by -5.38% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -3.58% while six-month performance fell -12.48%. The stock lost -35.06% in the past year, while it has gained 12.16% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for RYI yields 0.61 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.07. For the next quarter, that number is -0.48. This implies an EPS growth rate of -112.84% for this year and 304.74% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 31.84 million RYI shares are outstanding with a float of 26.65 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 0.51 million, which was 161.0 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. Edward J. Lehner CPA as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. James J. Claussen serves as its Executive VP & CFO.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.95466006 of RYI’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.

An Overview of Recent Financials:

Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-09-30, RYI reported revenue of $1126600000.0 and operating income of $5100000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $24400000.0 and diluted EPS was -$0.2.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for RYI since 0 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 0 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With RYI analysts setting a high price target of 23.0 and a low target of 23.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 23.0. Based on these targets, RYI could surge 10.79% to reach the target high and rise by 10.79% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 10.79% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of -$0.52102 being high and -$0.52678 being low. For RYI, this leads to a yearly average estimate of -$0.5239.