How to buy Olympic Steel stock (ZEUS)

Olympic Steel is a steel business based in the US. Olympic Steel shares (ZEUS) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $36.31 – a decrease of 10.3% over the previous week. Olympic Steel employs 2,148 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $2 billion.

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Olympic Steel stock price (NASDAQ: ZEUS)

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Olympic Steel shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2024-12-08.

Latest market close	$36.31
52-week range	$32.12 - $72.59
50-day moving average more info button	$38.35
200-day moving average more info button	$51.46
Wall St. target price	$50.50
PE ratio more info button	17.8386
Dividend yield more info button	$0.575 (1.48%)
Earnings per share (TTM) more info button	$2.23

Is it a good time to buy Olympic Steel stock?

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Olympic Steel price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $38.45 from 2024-12-17

1 week (2024-12-12)	-5.01%
1 month (2024-11-19)	-1.84%
3 months (2024-09-19)	-2.76%
6 months (2024-06-18)	-16.79%

1 year (2023-12-19)	-40.86%
2 years (2022-12-19)	20.70%
3 years (2021-12-17)	57.40%
5 years (2019-12-19)	125.28%

Is Olympic Steel stock undervalued or overvalued?

Valuing Olympic Steel stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Olympic Steel's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Olympic Steel's P/E ratio

Olympic Steel's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 18x. In other words, Olympic Steel shares trade at around 18x recent earnings.

That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.

Olympic Steel's PEG ratio

Olympic Steel's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 0.46. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Olympic Steel's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Olympic Steel's EBITDA

Olympic Steel's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $85 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Olympic Steel's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Olympic Steel financials

Revenue TTM	$2 billion
Operating margin TTM	1.66%
Gross profit TTM	$486.1 million
Return on assets TTM	3.47%
Return on equity TTM	4.73%
Profit margin	1.32%
Book value	$51.26
Market Capitalization more info button	$452.5 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Olympic Steel share dividends

Dividend payout ratio: 26.32% of net profits

Recently Olympic Steel has paid out, on average, around 0% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Olympic Steel shareholders could enjoy a 0% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Olympic Steel's case, that would currently equate to about $0.575 per share.

While Olympic Steel's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that Olympic Steel may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.

Olympic Steel's most recent dividend payout was on 15 December 2024. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 1 December 2024 (the "ex-dividend date").

Olympic Steel share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Olympic Steel's shares have ranged in value from as little as $32.1157 up to $72.5863. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Olympic Steel's is 1.473. This would suggest that Olympic Steel's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Olympic Steel overview

Olympic Steel, Inc. processes, distributes, and stores metal products primarily in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. It operates in three segments: Carbon Flat Products; Specialty Metals Flat Products; and Tubular and Pipe Products. The company offers stainless steel and aluminum coil and sheet products, angles, rounds, and flat bars; alloy, heat treated, and abrasion resistant coils, sheets and plates; coated metals, including galvanized, galvannealed, electro galvanized, advanced high strength steels, aluminized, and automotive grades of steel; commercial quality, advanced high strength steel, drawing steel, and automotive grades cold rolled steel coil and sheet products; hot rolled carbon comprising hot rolled coil, pickled and oiled sheet and plate steel products, automotive grades, advanced high strength steels, and high strength low alloys; tube, pipe, and bar products, including round, square, and rectangular mechanical and structural tubing; hydraulic and stainless tubing; boiler tubing; carbon, stainless, and aluminum pipes; valves and fittings; and tin mill products, such as electrolytic tinplate, electrolytic chromium coated steel, and black plates. The company also provides cutting-to-length, slitting, shearing, blanking, tempering, stretcher-leveling, plate and laser processing, forming and machining, tube processing, finishing, and fabrication services, as well as value-added services, such as saw cutting, laser cutting, beveling, threading, and grooving services. It serves metal consuming industries, such as manufacturers and fabricators of transportation and material handling lift equipment, construction, mining and farm equipment, agriculture equipment, storage tanks, environmental and energy generation equipment, automobiles, food service, and electrical equipment, as well as general and plate fabricators, and metals service centers through direct sales force. Olympic Steel, Inc.

Frequently asked questions

What percentage of Olympic Steel is owned by insiders or institutions?
Currently 12.027% of Olympic Steel shares are held by insiders and 80.05% by institutions. How many people work for Olympic Steel?
Latest data suggests 2,148 work at Olympic Steel. When does the fiscal year end for Olympic Steel?
Olympic Steel's fiscal year ends in December. Where is Olympic Steel based?
Olympic Steel's address is: 22901 Millcreek Boulevard, Highland Hills, OH, United States, 44122 What is Olympic Steel's ISIN number?
Olympic Steel's international securities identification number is: US68162K1060 What is Olympic Steel's CUSIP number?
Olympic Steel's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 68162K106