Zacks Research Weighs in on Reliance’s Q4 Earnings (NYSE:RS)

Reliance, Inc. (NYSE:RS) – Stock analysts at Zacks Research decreased their Q4 2025 earnings estimates for shares of Reliance in a research report issued to clients and investors on Wednesday, January 22nd. Zacks Research analyst R. Department now forecasts that the industrial products company will post earnings of $4.34 per share for the quarter, down from their prior estimate of $4.37. The consensus estimate for Reliance’s current full-year earnings is $16.36 per share. Zacks Research also issued estimates for Reliance’s Q4 2026 earnings at $4.31 EPS.

Reliance (NYSE:RS) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, October 24th. The industrial products company reported $3.64 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $3.66 by ($0.02). The firm had revenue of $3.42 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $3.38 billion. Reliance had a net margin of 7.42% and a return on equity of 13.68%. The firm’s revenue was down 5.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $5.00 EPS.

RS has been the subject of several other reports. BMO Capital Markets cut their target price on shares of Reliance from $340.00 to $330.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research report on Friday, October 25th. The Goldman Sachs Group assumed coverage on shares of Reliance in a research report on Monday, December 2nd. They set a “neutral” rating and a $341.00 price objective for the company. Wolfe Research raised Reliance from an “underperform” rating to a “peer perform” rating in a report on Wednesday, January 8th. Finally, KeyCorp cut their price target on Reliance from $325.00 to $321.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a report on Wednesday. Five investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and two have given a buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, Reliance currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $328.17.

Reliance Trading Up 0.2 %

Reliance stock opened at $287.98 on Friday. Reliance has a 52-week low of $256.98 and a 52-week high of $342.20. The company has a market cap of $15.59 billion, a P/E ratio of 15.81 and a beta of 0.91. The company has a quick ratio of 1.58, a current ratio of 3.31 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.12. The business has a 50-day simple moving average of $290.69 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $290.13.

Insider Activity

In other news, Director Mark V. Kaminski sold 5,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, October 28th. The stock was sold at an average price of $298.01, for a total transaction of $1,490,050.00. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Also, CEO Karla R. Lewis sold 3,892 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, December 2nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $323.90, for a total value of $1,260,618.80. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer now owns 85,117 shares in the company, valued at $27,569,396.30. This represents a 4.37 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold 21,724 shares of company stock worth $6,856,500 over the last ninety days. Corporate insiders own 0.69% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Trading of Reliance

A number of large investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. 1832 Asset Management L.P. grew its holdings in shares of Reliance by 1.9% in the second quarter. 1832 Asset Management L.P. now owns 6,644 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $1,898,000 after purchasing an additional 127 shares in the last quarter. Evergreen Capital Management LLC purchased a new position in shares of Reliance in the 2nd quarter worth $417,000. BRITISH COLUMBIA INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT Corp increased its holdings in shares of Reliance by 60.3% in the 2nd quarter. BRITISH COLUMBIA INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT Corp now owns 10,998 shares of the industrial products company’s stock worth $3,141,000 after buying an additional 4,136 shares during the last quarter. AXA S.A. raised its position in shares of Reliance by 5.4% during the 2nd quarter. AXA S.A. now owns 79,334 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $22,658,000 after buying an additional 4,032 shares in the last quarter. Finally, APG Asset Management N.V. bought a new position in shares of Reliance in the 2nd quarter valued at about $2,168,000. Institutional investors own 79.26% of the company’s stock.

About Reliance

Reliance, Inc operates as a diversified metal solutions provider and the metals service center company in the United States, Canada, and internationally. The company distributes a line of approximately 100,000 metal products, including alloy, aluminum, brass, copper, carbon steel, stainless steel, titanium, and specialty steel products; and provides metals processing services to general manufacturing, non-residential construction, transportation, aerospace, energy, electronics and semiconductor fabrication, and heavy industries.