Q4 Earnings Estimate for Reliance Issued By Zacks Research

Reliance, Inc. (NYSE:RS) – Equities researchers 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 per share of $4.34 for the quarter, down from their prior forecast 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.

Other analysts also recently issued research reports about the stock. BMO Capital Markets reduced their price objective 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. KeyCorp reduced their price target on shares of Reliance from $325.00 to $321.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a report on Wednesday. The Goldman Sachs Group started coverage on shares of Reliance in a report on Monday, December 2nd. They set a “neutral” rating and a $341.00 price objective on the stock. Finally, Wolfe Research upgraded Reliance from an “underperform” rating to a “peer perform” rating in a research note on Wednesday, January 8th. Five equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and two have assigned a buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $328.17.

Reliance Trading Up 1.0 %

RS opened at $290.79 on Friday. The company has a fifty day moving average of $290.30 and a 200-day moving average of $290.29. Reliance has a twelve month low of $256.98 and a twelve month high of $342.20. 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 stock has a market cap of $15.74 billion, a PE ratio of 15.97 and a beta of 0.91.

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

Hedge Funds Weigh In On Reliance

Several hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in the stock. Trust Point Inc. grew its stake in Reliance by 3.6% during the third quarter. Trust Point Inc. now owns 972 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $281,000 after acquiring an additional 34 shares in the last quarter. Fulton Bank N.A. raised its position in shares of Reliance by 3.1% during the 3rd quarter. Fulton Bank N.A. now owns 1,570 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $454,000 after buying an additional 47 shares in the last quarter. Harbor Capital Advisors Inc. raised its position in Reliance by 0.6% during the fourth quarter. Harbor Capital Advisors Inc. now owns 7,715 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $2,077,000 after purchasing an additional 49 shares in the last quarter. UMB Bank n.a. lifted its position in Reliance by 27.0% in the 3rd quarter. UMB Bank n.a. now owns 249 shares of the industrial products company’s stock worth $72,000 after buying an additional 53 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Janney Montgomery Scott LLC boosted its stake in shares of Reliance by 0.3% in the 3rd quarter. Janney Montgomery Scott LLC now owns 19,578 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $5,662,000 after purchasing an additional 58 shares in the last quarter. 79.26% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Insider Buying and Selling

In related news, CFO Arthur Ajemyan sold 6,332 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, November 6th. The shares were sold at an average price of $318.18, for a total transaction of $2,014,715.76. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief financial officer now owns 9,245 shares in the company, valued at approximately $2,941,574.10. This represents a 40.65 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. Also, Director Mark V. Kaminski sold 5,000 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, October 28th. The shares were sold at an average price of $298.01, for a total transaction of $1,490,050.00. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last 90 days, insiders sold 21,724 shares of company stock worth $6,856,500. 0.69% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

Reliance Company Profile

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.