Olympic Steel Reports Second-Quarter 2025 Results

Company delivers sequential increase in Adjusted EBITDA despite macroeconomic uncertainty and industry headwinds

Well positioned for continued investment in organic growth initiatives and acquisitions

Olympic Steel, Inc. (Nasdaq: ZEUS), a leading national metals service center, today announced financial results for the three months ended June 30, 2025.

Net income for the second quarter totaled $5.2 million, or $0.45 per diluted share, compared with net income of $7.7 million, or $0.66 per diluted share, in the second quarter of 2024. The results include $0.8 million of LIFO pre-tax expense in the second quarter of 2025 and $1.0 million of LIFO pre-tax income in the second quarter of 2024. Adjusted EBITDA for the second quarter of 2025 was $20.3 million, compared with $21.3 million in the second quarter of 2024.

The Company reported sales of $496 million in the second quarter of 2025, compared with $526 million in the second quarter of 2024.

“Olympic Steel continued to deliver solid results in the second quarter against a backdrop of macroeconomic uncertainty and related headwinds facing the metals industry,” said Richard T. Marabito, Chief Executive Officer. “Our strategic actions over the last several years, combined with our operational disciplines, have enabled us to build a stronger, more resilient Olympic Steel that can achieve profitable results in any environment. In the second quarter, our team delivered a sequential increase in Adjusted EBITDA, despite declining market demand for metals. All three of our segments contributed positive EBITDA for the quarter and six months.”

Marabito continued, “We are well positioned to continue investing in our growth initiatives with a strong balance sheet and more than $300 million of borrowing availability. New processing and automation equipment from our robust 2025 cap-ex plan is beginning to arrive. As the equipment becomes fully operational, we expect to see sales growth and improvements in productivity and safety through automation. Acquisitions also remain a key piece of our strategy and we are always seeking the right companies to complement our existing businesses.”

Marabito concluded, “While market uncertainty remains in the second half of the year, we are encouraged by the positive trend in stainless and aluminum pricing following the June tariff announcement. Inquiries for outsourced fabrication work have steadily increased as OEMs begin to navigate the new tariff environment. We remain confident in our ability to grow our business in any environment through a combination of organic investments in our core processing and distribution business and accretive acquisitions.”

The Board of Directors approved a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.16 per share, which is payable on September 15, 2025, to shareholders of record on September 2, 2025. The Company has paid a regular quarterly dividend since March 2006, increasing the dividend in each of the last three years.

The table that follows provides a reconciliation of certain non-GAAP measures to the most directly comparable measures prepared in accordance with GAAP. Additional reconciliations can be found in the Segment Financial Information table which also follows.

Conference Call and Webcast

A simulcast of Olympic Steel’s 2025 second-quarter earnings conference call can be accessed via the Investor Relations section of the Company’s website at www.olysteel.com. The live simulcast will begin at 10 a.m. ET on August 1, 2025, and a replay will be available for approximately 14 days thereafter.

Forward-Looking Statements

It is the Company's policy not to endorse any analyst's sales or earnings estimates. Forward-looking statements in this release are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are typically identified by words or phrases such as "may," "will," "anticipate," "should," "intend," "expect," "believe," "estimate," "project," "plan," "potential," and "continue," as well as the negative of these terms or similar expressions. Such forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those implied by such statements. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: the levels of imported steel in the United States, imposed tariffs and duties on imported and exported steel or other products, U.S. trade policy and its impact on the U.S. manufacturing industry, including retaliatory actions by other countries; supply disruptions and inflationary pressures, including the availability and rising costs of transportation, energy, logistical services and labor; general and global business, economic, financial and political conditions, including, but not limited to, recessionary conditions and legislation passed under the current administration, including the impact of the enactment of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, or the OBBBA, on July 4, 2025; risks associated with shortages of skilled labor, increased labor costs and our ability to attract and retain qualified personnel; risks of volatile metals prices and inventory devaluation; rising interest rates and their impacts on our variable interest rate debt; supplier consolidation or addition of new capacity; risks associated with economic sanctions, and current global conflicts, or additional war, military conflict, or hostilities could adversely affect global metals supply and pricing; reduced production schedules, layoffs or work stoppages by our own, our suppliers' or customers' personnel; our ability to successfully integrate recent acquisitions, including Central Tube and Bar, or CTB, Metal-Fab, Inc., or Metal-Fab and Metal Works, LLC, or MetalWorks, into our business and risks inherent with the acquisitions in the achievement of expected results, including whether the acquisition will be accretive and within the expected timeframe; the adequacy of our existing information technology and business system software, including duplication and security processes; the inflation or deflation existing within the metals industry, as well as product mix and inventory levels on hand, which can impact our cost of materials sold as a result of the fluctuations in the last-in, first-out, or LIFO, inventory valuation; competitive factors such as the availability, and global pricing of metals and production levels, industry shipping and inventory levels and rapid fluctuations in customer demand and metals pricing; fluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar and the related impact on foreign steel pricing, U.S. exports, and foreign imports to the United States; risks associated with infectious disease outbreaks, including, but not limited to customer closures, reduced sales and profit levels, slower payment of accounts receivable and potential increases in uncollectible accounts receivable, falling metals prices that could lead to lower of cost or net realizable value inventory adjustments and the impairment of intangible and long-lived assets, negative impacts on our liquidity position, inability to access our traditional financing sources and increased costs associated with and less ability to access funds under our asset-based credit facility, or ABL Credit Facility, and the capital markets; increased customer demand without corresponding increase in metal supply could lead to an inability to meet customer demand and result in lower sales and profits; cyclicality and volatility within the metals industry; customer, supplier and competitor consolidation, bankruptcy or insolvency; the timing and outcomes of inventory lower of cost or net realizable value adjustments and LIFO income or expense; reduced availability and productivity of our employees, increased operational risks as a result of remote work arrangements, including the potential effects on internal controls, as well as cybersecurity risks and increased vulnerability to security breaches, information technology disruptions and other similar events; the successes of our efforts and initiatives to improve working capital turnover and cash flows, and achieve cost savings; risks and uncertainties associated with intangible assets, including impairment charges related to indefinite lived intangible assets; our ability to generate free cash flow through operations and repay debt; the impacts of union organizing activities and the success of union contract renewals; the amounts, successes and our ability to continue our capital investments and strategic growth initiatives, including acquisitions and our business information system implementations; events or circumstances that could adversely impact the successful operation of our processing equipment and operations; changes in laws or regulations or the manner of their interpretation or enforcement could impact our financial performance and restrict our ability to operate our business or execute our strategies; events or circumstances that could impair or adversely impact the carrying value of any of our assets; our ability to pay regular quarterly cash dividends and the amounts and timing of any future dividends; our ability to repurchase shares of our common stock and the amounts and timing of repurchases, if any; and unanticipated developments that could occur with respect to contingencies such as litigation, arbitration and environmental matters, including any developments that would require any increase in our costs for such contingencies.

In addition to financial information prepared in accordance with GAAP, this document also contains adjusted earnings per diluted share and adjusted EBITDA, which are non-GAAP financial measures. Management's view of the Company's performance includes adjusted earnings per share and adjusted EBITDA, and management uses these non-GAAP financial measures internally for planning and forecasting purposes and to measure the performance of the Company. We believe these non-GAAP financial measures provide useful and meaningful information to us and investors because they enhance investors' understanding of the continuing operating performance of our business and facilitate the comparison of performance between past and future periods. These non-GAAP financial measures should be considered in addition to, but not as a substitute for, the information prepared in accordance with GAAP. Additionally, the presentation of these measures may be different from non-GAAP financial measures used by other companies. A reconciliation of these non-GAAP measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures is provided above.

About Olympic Steel

Founded in 1954, Olympic Steel (NASDAQ: ZEUS) is a leading U.S. metals service center focused on the direct sale and value-added processing of carbon and coated sheet, plate, and coil steel products; stainless steel sheet, plate, bar and coil; aluminum sheet, plate and coil; pipe, tube, bar, valves and fittings; tin plate and metal-intensive end-use products, including water treatment systems; stainless steel bollards; commercial, residential and industrial venting and air filtration systems; Wright^® brand self-dumping hoppers; metal canopy components; and EZ-Dumper^® dump inserts. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Olympic Steel operates from 54 facilities.

For additional information, please visit the Company’s website at www.olysteel.com.

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