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WS
Worthington Steel, Inc.
NYSE· Basic Materials· Steel· CUSIP 982104101
$39.68+0.97%Price as of Oct 17, 12:16 UTC · updated once a day, after the close
At a glance
Worthington Steel, Inc. (WS) is listed on NYSE and classified in Steel, part of the Basic Materials sector. It is headquartered in Columbus, United States and has 12,000 employees. The company is worth $1.99B. Revenue was $3.44B in fiscal 2026, up 11.3% from the year before. Net income was $8.5M. The share price is 19.3% below its 52-week high of $49.17. It pays a dividend yielding 1.61%. 4 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Renaissance Technologies, at $6.42M. In that quarter, 1 of them opened or added to the position and 1 reduced it. Over the last 30 days, company insiders sold $1.08M of its stock on the open market and bought none. All of those sales were scheduled in advance under 10b5-1 plans.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Key metrics
- Market cap
- $1.99B
- P/E
- —
- Forward P/E
- 8.5x
- P/B
- 1.9x
- Dividend yield
- 1.61%
- Payout
- —
- EPS
- -$0.71
- ROE
- -3.40%
- Profit margin
- -0.72%
- Revenue growth
- +212.40%
- Beta
- 2.23
- 52-week high
- $49.17
- 52-week low
- $27.22
History
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Investors holding this
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
- Renaissance TechnologiesHeldRenaissance Technologies · Q2 2026$6.42M191.14K shares · 0.0% of portfolio
Ken GriffinAddedCitadel Advisors · Q2 2026$4.25M126.46K shares · 0.0% of portfolio- Cliff AsnessHeldAQR Capital Management · Q2 2026$1.83M54.38K shares · 0.0% of portfolio
- Two SigmaReducedTwo Sigma Investments · Q2 2026$908.21K27.05K shares · 0.0% of portfolio
Price over time
▲ +44.3% over 5Y.
This stock has less than 5 years of price history — the answer would measure a shorter period than the one asked for.
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
Indicators, year by year
The last 4 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $39.68 | $34.62 | $31.82 | $28.10 | |
| P/E | 15.8x | 233.4x | 15.8x | 10.2x | 15.9x |
| P/S | 0.5x | 0.6x | 0.6x | 0.5x | 0.0x |
| P/B | 1.6x | 1.9x | 1.6x | 1.6x | 0.0x |
| EPS | $0.17 | $2.19 | $3.11 | $1.77 | |
| Dividend yield | 1.85% | 1.21% | 1.85% | 2.01% | — |
| Payout | 29.22% | 282.35% | 29.22% | 20.58% | — |
| Profit margin | 3.00% | 0.25% | 3.58% | 4.51% | 2.41% |
| ROE | 9.39% | 0.80% | 10.31% | 15.70% | 8.46% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
Fair price, seven ways
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Earnings
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Earnings
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Earnings
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Earnings
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Cash flow
$22.36
Cash flow growing 5.0% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Operating
$12.47
Sector median of 9.8x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
Dividends
$4.92
Dividend growing 0.0% a year against a 13.0% required return, from the stock’s beta.
How the average is calculated
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
Cash flow $22.36+Operating $12.47+Dividends $4.92÷ 3 =$13.25
$13.25
3 methods answered, across 3 families.
$9.94
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
$39.68
-66.6% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
Others in the same sector
Companies of similar size in Basic Materials, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MTXMinerals Technologies Inc | $64.07 | — | 1.3x | 0.75% | -3.83% | $1.99B |
| CCChemours Co | $13.03 | — | — | 2.69% | -319.37% | $1.96B |
| STDNStandard Nuclear, Inc. | $12.17 | — | — | 0.00% | — | $1.96B |
| AMRAlpha Metallurgical Resources, Inc. | $159.39 | — | 1.3x | 0.00% | -2.96% | $2.02B |
| SVMSilvercorp Metals Inc | $8.62 | 78.4x | 1.9x | 0.15% | 8.09% | $1.91B |
| KALUKaiser Aluminum Corp | $114.99 | 11.5x | 2.2x | 2.68% | 26.40% | $1.88B |
About the company
- 12,000
- Columbus, United States