The recent downside mouvement appears to lose momentum which could allow Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co shares to regain a positive medium term outlook.
Summary
● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of listed companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility criteria.
● In a short-term perspective, the company has interesting fundamentals.
Strengths
● Predictions on business development from analysts polled by Thomson-Reuters are tight. This results from either a good visibility into core activities or accurate earnings releases.
● The stock, which is currently worth 2017 to 0.74 times its sales, is clearly overvalued in comparison with peers.
● With a P/E ratio at 13.41 for the current year and 12.26 for next year, earnings multiples are highly attractive compared with competitors.
● Growth remains a strong point in this company. In their sales forecast, analysts sound optimistic with regard to sales prospects.
● For several months, analysts have been revising their EPS estimates roughly upwards.
● The difference between current prices and the average target price is rather important and implies a significant appreciation potential for the stock.
Reliance, Inc. is a diversified metal solutions provider and has a metals service center company in North America. The Company provides value-added metals processing services and distributes a full line of over 100,000 metal products, including alloy, aluminum, brass, copper, carbon steel, stainless steel, titanium, specialty carbon and alloy steel plate and round bar and specialty steel products. It serves various industries, such as general manufacturing, non-residential construction (including infrastructure), transportation (rail, truck trailer and shipbuilding), aerospace (commercial, military, defense, and space, and heavy industry, energy (oil and natural gas). It also services the auto industry, primarily through its toll processing operation. It has a network of approximately 315 locations in 40 states and in 12 foreign countries, including Belgium, Canada, China, France, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, South Korea, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom.