Some odd price shocks going on today, especially in commodity-related and industrial stocks. Check out RS, one of the basket of "middle of the economies" stocks I follow. Yikes!
Stock has had a stunning rise out of its 2003 lows.
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Profile:
Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. operates metals service centers. It provides metals processing services and distributes a line of approximately 100,000 metal products, including alloy, aluminum, brass, copper, carbon steel, titanium, stainless steel, and specialty steel products to fabricators, manufacturers, and other end users. The company's metals processing services include bar turning, bending, blanking, deburring, electropolishing, fabricating, forming, grinding, leveling, machining, oscillate slitting, pipe threading, and polishing. Reliance Steel also offers precision plate sawing, punching, routing, sawing, shape cutting, shearing, skin milling, slitting, tee splitting, twin milling, welding, wheelabrating, shotblasting, and bead-blasting services. As of December 31, 2007, it maintained approximately 180 metals service center processing and distribution facilities in 37 states, and in Belgium, Canada, China, South Korea, and the United Kingdom. The company was founded in 1939 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. |
