Valuation

WSWorthington Steel Inc.

StockNYSEUnited StatesMaterialsEU retail investors: available

+2.3% today · +19.3% over a year

1/10 A 1–10 summary of how an instrument compares with similar ones (same sector and region) by published rules. It describes today's data; it is not a price forecast. More in the glossary → «Balanced» — higher than 11% of the instruments we score

Quality: among the weakest; priced higher than most peers. Dividend yield 1.74%.

Worthington Steel Inc. (WS) valuation against sector peers: P/B 1.8, EV/EBIT 703.7, free-cash-flow yield 2.5%, P/S 0.4.

Ratios vs sector

Medians of Materials companies in the same region (stocks and REITs).

Lower P/E, P/B, P/S and EV/EBIT mean cheaper; higher yields, returns and margins mean more for the price. Negative multiples (losses) are left out of the medians.
MetricWSSector medianvs median
P/E—23.0 · n=64—
P/B1.82.0 · n=828% below
P/S0.41.2 · n=8270% below
EV/EBIT703.719.5 · n=503,504% above
Free-cash-flow yield2.5%3.7% · n=8033% below
Dividend yield1.74%1.37% · n=8927% above
Return on equity−3.6%10.3% · n=84135% below
Return on invested capital0.3%6.4% · n=6595% below
Gross margin10.4%23.9% · n=8357% below
Net debt / EBITDA19.882.41 · n=60724% above

Value factor: 15 of 100 within the peer group. Full score breakdown →

Sector peers

The largest companies of the same sector and region.

NEMNewmont13.63.5—8.0%0.9%9/10
FCXFreeport-McMoRan24.94.114.1—0.9%6/10
ECLEcolab40.58.133.42.1%1.0%7/10
SHWSherwin-Williams31.120.9—3.7%1.2%8/10
APDAir Products & Chemicals—4.9—−0.4%2.4%1/10
CRHCRH plc17.72.514.74.0%1.2%5/10
NUENucor19.32.5—2.8%0.9%8/10
WCNWaste Connections41.76.032.12.6%0.8%6/10
MLMMartin Marietta Materials16.02.137.72.4%0.6%1/10
VMCVulcan Materials32.94.325.02.2%0.7%5/10

Fiscal-year history

From annual SEC filings; each bar is a fiscal year, labelled by the year it ended.

Filings: U.S. SEC EDGAR · ratios computed by AI-Stock Invest from public filings and end-of-day prices · latest period 31 Aug 2026 · filed 13 Oct 2026