Reliance Steel & Aluminum (RS)

Basic Materials · Steel
$401.49 -1.65% on the day Market cap $19.9B 52-week range $260.31 to $433.02 Prices as of Oct 7, 2026

What the price implies

A reverse DCF: instead of guessing a fair value, it asks what growth today's price already assumes. How it works.

Free cash flow growth the price needs
14% a year for 10 years

At a market value of $19.9B, Reliance Steel & Aluminum's free cash flow of $502M (fiscal 2025) would need to grow about 14% a year for the stock to be worth today's price. That is faster than the company has grown its free cash flow over the last 9 years.

Assumes a 9% discount rate and 3% growth after year 10, on free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capital spending) from Reliance Steel & Aluminum's SEC filings. Change any assumption, or model revenue and margins instead, in the Modeling tab, or try your own numbers in the reverse DCF calculator.

Implied by the price13.9% a year
Free cash flow, last 9 years0.7% a year
Revenue, same period5.8% a year
Price to free cash flow39.5x

Fundamental grade

C

Five factors scored 1 to 9 from RS's latest numbers, weighted into one grade. It describes the business, not whether the stock is a buy.

Valuation5
Profitability5
Growth8
Financial health7
Cash efficiency4

Key numbers

P/E (trailing)25.4x
P/E (forward)22.5x
Price / free cash flow39.5x
EV / EBITDA16.0x
Price / sales1.34x
Price / book2.88x
Revenue growth+15.5%
Operating margin7.5%
Net margin5.4%
Return on equity11.3%
Dividend yield1.2%
Debt / equity0.52x

Results from SEC filings

Fiscal years, from Reliance Steel & Aluminum's 10-K filings. The deep dive has 15+ years, quarters and every line.

Fiscal year20212022202320242025
Revenue$14.1B$17.0B$14.8B$13.8B$14.3B
Net income$1.4B$1.8B$1.3B$875M$739M
Free cash flow$563M$1.8B$1.2B$999M$502M
EPS (diluted)$21.97$29.92$22.64$15.56$13.98
Operating margin13.8%14.7%11.7%8.4%7.1%

Where the revenue comes from

Revenue by products, fiscal 2025.

Carbon steel$7.9B55%
Aluminum$2.5B17%
Stainless steel$1.9B14%
Toll processing and logistics$647M5%
Alloy$641M4%
Copper and brass$377M3%

Superinvestors who own RS

From each investor's latest 13F filing (what a 13F shows). 4 of the investors we track hold it.

InvestorLast quarterValue% of portfolioQuarter
Donald Yacktman
Yacktman Asset Management
Added $261M3.2%Q2 2026
Cliff Asness
AQR Capital Management
Trimmed $39M0.01%Q2 2026
Joel Greenblatt
Gotham Asset Management
Added $33M0.08%Q2 2026
Jean-Marie Eveillard
First Eagle Investment Management
Added $544,7090.00%Q2 2026

Insider buying

Open-market purchases by Reliance Steel & Aluminum's executives and directors in the last 12 months, from SEC Form 4 filings. What insider buying tells you.

No open-market insider purchases of RS in the last 12 months. Most insider activity is selling and option exercises, which aren't shown here.

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In the full deep dive

DCF fair value per share
Yearly return (IRR) at today's price
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Questions

What growth does Reliance Steel & Aluminum's stock price imply?

At a market value of $19.9B, Reliance Steel & Aluminum would need its free cash flow to grow about 14% a year for 10 years (discounted at 9%, 3% growth after that) to be worth today's price. Over the last 9 years its free cash flow grew 1% a year.

Are Reliance Steel & Aluminum insiders buying the stock?

No open-market insider purchases of RS in the last 12 months, according to SEC Form 4 filings.

Which superinvestors own Reliance Steel & Aluminum?

4 of the superinvestors Investingly tracks hold RS in their latest 13F, including Donald Yacktman, Cliff Asness, Joel Greenblatt.

Prices and ratios as of Oct 7, 2026; statements from SEC filings. Information only, not investment advice. Superinvestor holdings come from 13F filings, which are filed up to 45 days after each quarter ends.