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Worthington Steel, Inc. (WS)

NYSE: WS · Steel Works, Blast Furnaces & Rolling & Finishing Mills · Columbus, OH · filing with the SEC since 2023
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Grade5.1
◀ Past 5.3● Present 4.7▶ Future 5.5
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The grade of Worthington Steel, Inc.

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
5.1/10
◀ Past5.330% of the headline
● Present4.740% of the headline
▶ Future5.530% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

Of the nine metrics, 8 read as filed from the record and 1 is an SI estimate, each with its reasoning, its confidence and what would change it on its card.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

5.3/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
7.1/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2023.

weight 33% of this tense · 71st percentile among 31 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Worthington Steel, Inc.'s filings since 2023 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
4.3/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

-4.1% a year over 5 filed years; profitable in 5 of 5.

weight 45% of this tense · 43rd percentile among 29 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Worthington Steel, Inc.'s 5 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $4.1 billion in fiscal 2022 to $3.4 billion in fiscal 2026, down 4.1% a year; it rose in 1 of 4 years; the deepest fall was 24% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 5 of 5 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span-4.1%bottom 20% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 5% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 9% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak24.0%top 43% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
4.5/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 1.0% a year. 11% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 11 sales, 3 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 45th percentile among 25 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2026-05-31, Worthington Steel, Inc.'s diluted share count grew about 1.0% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 11% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 11 sales (11 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 3 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-28, buying about $406 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 48% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 39% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

4.7/1040% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Financial health

as filed
4.8/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 1%: 1¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 47%: owes 47¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 48th percentile among 30 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-05-31, Worthington Steel, Inc. earned about 1 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 18 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 47 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.6% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 45% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 36% of its family
  • gross profit against assetstop 46% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforebottom 48% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
4.8/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 48% of 28 in its family; net margin 0.2%.

weight 33% of this tense · 48th percentile among 28 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Worthington Steel, Inc.'s standing among 28 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $3.4 billion in fiscal 2026 ranks in the top 25% by size; a net margin of 0.2% ranks in the bottom 35%; revenue growth of -1.5% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 34% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$3.44Btop 25% of its family
  • net margin0.2%bottom 35% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth-1.5%bottom 34% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

SI estimate
4.2/10

What are the people in charge doing?

SI estimate 4.2/10, confidence 35 of 100 (one part).

weight 22% of this tense · 42nd percentile among 26 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
Read from one part only, officer and director changes on Form 8-K over three years, against the people in charge, which ranks in the bottom 42% of 26 in its family; the record of its people begins on 2023-11-16 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 3 years and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge.
What the record cannot read
The record of its people begins on 2023-11-16 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 3 years and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge.
How it was reasoned
one part: officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge, the one part on file, ranked among 26 in its family.
Confidence
35 of 100
What would change it
A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: Worthington Steel, Inc.'s leadership is put at 4.2 of 10 with a confidence of 35 of 100, because read from one part only, officer and director changes on Form 8-K over three years, against the people in charge, which ranks in the bottom 42% of 26 in its family; the record of its people begins on 2023-11-16 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 3 years and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge. A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

5.5/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
4.7/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 47% of 27 in its family for room to expand.

weight 45% of this tense · 47th percentile among 27 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Worthington Steel, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $85 million against debt of $44 million leaves 1.8% of its assets as net cash, top 32% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 2.3% of revenue (bottom 39%); a gross margin of 11.7% (bottom 33%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets1.8%top 32% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue2.3%bottom 39% of its family
  • gross margin11.7%bottom 33% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
7.9/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 21% of 29 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 79th percentile among 29 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Worthington Steel, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew -1.5% a year over the last three filed years against -4.1% over all 5, speeding up (top 20% of its family); the newest year grew 11.3% (top 34%); capital spending grew 38.6% a year (top 9%) (its annual reports). Worthington Steel, Inc. tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span+2.5 points a yeartop 20% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth11.3%top 34% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending38.6%top 9% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
3.8/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

bottom 38% of 26 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 22% of this tense · 38th percentile among 26 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Worthington Steel, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $3.4 billion in fiscal 2026 came in 20.2% above the $2.9 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 33% of its family); net income of $9 million against a prior three-year average of $118 million (bottom 20%); a net margin of 0.2% against 3.5% before (bottom 25%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace20.2%top 33% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-93%bottom 20% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-3.3 pointsbottom 25% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton WS · research, not advice