Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. (NYSE: RS) Buzzing Intraday On February 17, Thanks To A 2.90% Weekly Volatility

Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. (NYSE:RS) does about 365.55K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 773396 shares change hands in Friday trading. The company now has a market cap of 14.48B USD. Its current market price is $247.90, marking an increase of 1.97% compared to the previous close of $243.10. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $245.06 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $160.29. The script in recent trading has seen the stock touch a high of $248.77 and a low of $243.545.

Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. (RS) has a 20-day trading average at $230.07 and the current price is 1.16% off the 52-week high compared with 54.66% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $215.90 and its 200-day simple moving average is $195.13. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 2.90%, which decreases to 2.71% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 75.52 to suggest the stock is overbought.

7 analysts observing the Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. (RS) stock have set the 12-month price targets for the company’s shares at between $245.00 and $280.00. The consensus objective for the share price is $226.35, suggesting that the stock has a potential downside of -9.52% over the period. The median price target is 6.45% away from the current levels at $265.00.

FactSet Research has provided data showing that 7 brokerages have issued ratings for the stock. 0 analysts have rated it as a sell, while 0 advise that it is a overweight. 4 analysts have rated it as a buy and 3 have advised that investors hold their positions. The consensus recommendation rating is Overweight and Wall Street’s advice is for investors to Moderate Buy the stock.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on January 04, 2023 when BofA Securities resumed the stock to “Neutral” and issued a price target of $231. Goldman downgraded the stock to “Neutral” from Buy on October 06, 2022 at a price target of $218-$201. BMO Capital Markets initiated its price target at $230.

The current price level is 8.51%, 15.24%, and 27.18% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the RS price moving above the 50-day SMA on February 17. Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. (RS) stock is up 8.70% over the week and 17.00% over the past month. Its price is 22.46% year-to-date and 47.38% over the past year.

The stock last released its quarterly earnings report for quarter ended 9/29/2022, with the company’s earnings per share (EPS) of $6.48 above consensus estimates by $0.29. The company’s next earnings report is expected on 04/27/2023, with forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at $4.47 and $28.61 for whole year. RS’s earnings per share are forecast to grow by 30.20% this year and -33.70% over next year. Expected sales for next quarter are $3.7 billion, which analysts say will come at $17.06 billion for the current fiscal year and next year at $14.32 billion. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $3.64 billion.

Its 12-month price target is $265.00. To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to shrink -9.52 percent from here. Of course, the average price target is just what the average analysts believe a stock will be worth in the next 52 weeks, and is only one metric. There are analysts with lower targets than the average, including one bearish Wall Street research firm advocating investors to wait for the price to pull back to $245.00, given the recent momentum. And then, on the bullish side of things, one analyst is expecting the stock to peak at $280.00.

Outstanding shares total 60.05M with insiders holding 0.85% of the shares and institutional holders owning 84.69% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of 19.20% and return on equity of 29.00%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 8.11 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 13.07. The beta has a value of 0.91. Price to book ratio is 2.17 and price to sales ratio is 0.83.

According to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing, iShares Core S&P Mid Cap ETF has reduced its position in Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. (RS) to 1,824,248 shares, mirroring a recent drop by -0.19%. iShares Core S&P Mid Cap ETF dumped 3450.0 shares of Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. common stock bringing its total worth to about $414.93 million at the end of recent close, SEC documents show. iShares Core S&P Mid Cap ETF isn’t the only investment manager who changed stakes and is followed by Vanguard Total Stock Market Index, which added 15863.0 shares to end up with 1,799,130 shares worth $409.21 million. Vanguard Small Cap Index Fund raise their holdings by 0.55% in the company over the course of the most recent quarter. It now holds a 2.59% position in Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. thanks to 1.52 million shares amounting to $345.84 million.

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