Company: ZEUS
Filing Date: 2025-10-30
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001437749-25-032420
Chunk: 22

Company: OLYMPIC STEEL INC
Filing Date: 2025-10-30
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 8
Chunk 22
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 on foreign steel pricing, U.S. exports, and foreign imports to the United States;

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     risks associated with infectious disease outbreaks, including, but not limited to customer closures, reduced sales and profit levels, slower payment of accounts receivable and potential increases in uncollectible accounts receivable, falling metals prices that could lead to lower of cost or net realizable value inventory adjustments and the impairment of intangible and long-lived assets, negative impacts on our liquidity position, inability to access our traditional financing sources and increased costs associated with and less ability to access funds under our asset-based credit facility, or ABL Credit Facility, and the capital markets;

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     increased customer demand without corresponding increase in metal supply could lead to an inability to meet customer demand and result in lower sales and profits;

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     cyclicality and volatility within the metals industry;

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     customer, supplier and competitor consolidation, bankruptcy or insolvency;

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     the timing and outcomes of inventory lower of cost or net realizable value adjustments and LIFO income or expense;

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     reduced availability and productivity of our employees, increased operational risks as a result of remote work arrangements, including the potential effects on internal controls, as well as cybersecurity risks and increased vulnerability to security breaches, information technology disruptions and other similar events;

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     the successes of our efforts and initiatives to improve working capital turnover and cash flows, and achieve cost savings;

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     risks and uncertainties associated with intangible assets, including impairment charges related to indefinite lived intangible assets;

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     our ability to generate free cash flow through operations and repay debt;

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     the impacts of union organizing activities and the success of union contract renewals;

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     the amounts, successes and our ability to continue our capital investments and strategic growth initiatives, including acquisitions and our business information system implementations;

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     events or circumstances that could adversely impact the successful operation of our processing equipment and operations;

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     changes in laws or regulations or the manner of their interpretation or enforcement could impact our financial performance and restrict our ability to operate our business or execute our strategies;

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     events or circumstances that could impair or adversely impact the carrying value of any of our assets;

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     our ability to pay regular quarterly cash dividends and the amounts and timing of any future dividends;

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     our ability to repurchase shares of our common stock and the amounts and timing of repurchases, if any