What is Ryerson Holding 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio?
Shares Outstanding (EOP) are shares that have been authorized, issued, and purchased by investors and are held by them.
5-Year Share Buyback Ratio measures the average annual proportion of a company's outstanding shares repurchased over the past five years. It is calculated as the annualized percentage change in shares outstanding from five years ago to the current year. A positive ratio may indicate share buybacks over the period, while a zero or negative ratio may reflect no repurchases or potential share issuance. Ryerson Holding's current 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio was 3.50%.
RYI's 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio is ranked better than 99.29% of 1961
companies
in the Industrial Products industry
Industry Median: -2.6
vs RYI: 3.50
Competitive Comparison of Ryerson Holding's 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio
For the Metal Fabrication subindustry, Ryerson Holding's 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio data, can be viewed below:
* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.
Ryerson Holding's 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio Distribution in the Industrial Products Industry
For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, Ryerson Holding's 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Ryerson Holding's 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio falls into.
Ryerson Holding 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio Calculation
This is the annualized percentage change in shares outstanding from five years ago to the current year. The annualized percentage change is calculated with least-square regression based on the latest six years of annual data on Shares Outstanding (EOP).
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Ryerson Holding (NYSE:RYI) 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio Explanation
A negative number means the company might be issuing new shares. A positive number indicates that the company is buying back shares.
Be Aware
Investors usually like share buybacks. But as pointed by Warren Buffett, only if a company buys back shares at the prices below the stock's intrinsic value, it rewards remaining shareholders. If a company buys its overvalued stocks back, it destroys shareholder value.
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Ryerson Holding Corp provides a metals service center, and value-added processor and is a distributor of industrial metals with operations in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. In addition to its North American operations, it conducts processing and distribution operations in China. Its customers range from local, independently owned fabricators and machine shops to large, international original equipment manufacturers. It carries a full line of products in stainless steel, aluminum, carbon steel, and alloy steels and a limited line of nickel and red metals in various shapes and forms. The company generates substantially all of its revenue from sales of metal products. Geographically, the majority revenue is generated from the United States.
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