No insider purchase over the last 90 days. The latest, by Scott Peter Jennings, was filed 10 Dec 2025.
Every trade that managers of Olympic Steel Inc disclose to SEC (Form 4) is tracked on this page. The company sits in the Chemicals & Materials sector and is based in Cleveland, United States. It was founded in 1954. Over the twelve months to 18 October 2026, 20 filings were filed, from 12 insiders.
Purchases and sales both appear in the filings: 1 purchase (1 insider, €172k) and 1 sale (1 insider, €84k). On balance, insiders were net buyers of €88k. Unlike grants, an open-market purchase is paid for by the insider, at the market price. The largest single trade was a purchase of €172k by Scott Peter Jennings, published on 10 December 2025. On the buying side, the filings list 1 senior executive among the declarants.
The clock since the last published purchase (10 December 2025) now reads 312 days. The median gap between a trade and its publication by SEC (Form 4) is 4 days. The legal deadline for a Form 4 is two business days after the transaction.
Compared with its exchange (5,458 companies, median 22 filings), a count of 20 filings is below the norm. Over the whole record (from 2021), the tally stands at 3 purchases and 22 sales.
In the same sector, recent insider purchases at Culp Inc and Gold.com, Inc. also feature in our signals. This summary is built from SEC (Form 4) disclosures alone and does not predict where the share price will go.
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Olympic Steel Inc. is a U.S.-based metals service center and processor listed on the NASDAQ under the ticker ZEUS, in the United States. Founded in 1954 by Sol Siegal and Sam Sigel, the company started as a steel warehousing and distribution business and has since evolved into a broader, more integrated metals platform with meaningful value-added processing capabilities. Its headquarters are in Cleveland, Ohio, which anchors the business in one of the long-established industrial hubs of the U.S. metals sector.
Olympic Steel’s core model is built around the direct sale, inventory management, and processing of metal products for industrial customers. The company sells carbon and coated sheet, plate and coil, stainless steel sheet, plate, bar and coil, aluminum sheet, plate and coil, and pipe, tube, bar, valves and fittings. What differentiates Olympic Steel from a pure trader is its extensive processing offering: cut-to-length, slitting, leveling, forming, machining, welding, painting, burning/cutting, and other fabrication and finishing services. That service intensity makes the company an important supply-chain partner rather than only a commodity intermediary.
From a competitive standpoint, Olympic Steel holds a solid position among U.S. metals service centers by combining product breadth, geographic reach, and customer intimacy. The company says it operates 53 sales and warehouse locations across North America and has a manufacturing footprint of more than 4.5 million square feet. That scale supports relationships with regional customers as well as national and multi-location accounts, which is a meaningful advantage in a fragmented and cyclical industry.
Its operating structure is diversified across several product families and specialty brands, including Action Stainless, Chicago Tube & Iron, Integrity Stainless, Berlin Metals, and Shaw Stainless & Alloy. This multi-brand architecture allows Olympic Steel to address different end markets and potentially capture higher-value niches in stainless, tubular products, aluminum, and fabricated metal solutions.
Recent developments in 2025 highlighted the company’s emphasis on both organic growth and acquisitions. Olympic Steel said its late-2024 acquisition of MetalWorks was off to a strong start and was immediately accretive, while management also emphasized the contribution of specialty metals and manufactured products businesses. The company additionally announced an amendment and extension of its credit facility in April 2025, improving financial flexibility for ongoing operations and growth initiatives.
For investors, Olympic Steel represents a seasoned U.S. industrial platform with exposure to manufacturing demand, metals pricing cycles, and working-capital dynamics, but supported by a diversified product mix, value-added processing capabilities, and a broad North American footprint.
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| Fiscal year end | Revenue | Net income | Diluted EPS | Dividend per share | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2024 | 1.94 bn USD | 23.0 m USD | 1.97 USD | 0.60 USD | 10-K |
| Dec 2023 | 2.16 bn USD | 44.5 m USD | 3.85 USD | 0.50 USD | 10-K |
| Dec 2022 | 2.56 bn USD | 90.9 m USD | 7.87 USD | 0.36 USD | 10-K |
| Dec 2021 | 2.31 bn USD | 121.1 m USD | 10.52 USD | 0.08 USD | 10-K |
| Dec 2020 | 1.23 bn USD | -5.6 m USD | -0.49 USD | 0.08 USD | 10-K |
Amounts in USD, as filed (forms 10-K, 20-F or 40-F). Source: SEC EDGAR.