Company: ZEUS
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001437749-25-004742
Chunk: 123

Company: OLYMPIC STEEL INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 123
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 initiatives, adhere to our public statements, comply with federal, state or international environmental, social and governance laws and regulations, or meet evolving and varied stakeholder expectations and standards could result in legal and regulatory proceedings against us and materially adversely affect our business, reputation, results of operations, financial condition and stock price.

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Risks Related to Our Common Stock

The market price for our common stock may be volatile. 

Historically, there has been volatility in the market price for our common stock. Furthermore, the market price of our common stock could fluctuate substantially in the future in response to a number of factors, including, but not limited to, the risk factors described herein. Examples include:

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      changes in commodity prices, especially metals; 

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      changes in financial estimates or recommendations by stock market analysts regarding us or our competitors; 

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      the operating and stock performance of other companies that investors may deem comparable; 

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      developments affecting us, our customers or our suppliers; 

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      press releases, earnings releases or publicity relating to us or our competitors or relating to trends in the metals service center industry; 

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      inability to meet securities analysts’ and investors’ quarterly or annual estimates or targets of our performance; 

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      sales of our common stock by large shareholders; 

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      the amount of shares acquired for short-term investments; 

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      general domestic or international economic, market and political conditions; 

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      fluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar; 

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     changes in (or changes in expectation) related to interest rates and the Federal Funds Rates;

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      changes in the legal or regulatory environment affecting our business; and 

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      announcements by us or our competitors of significant acquisitions, dispositions or joint ventures, or other material events impacting the domestic or global metals industry. 

In the past, the stock market has experienced significant price and volume fluctuations. This volatility has had a significant effect on the market prices of securities issued by many companies for reasons unrelated to their specific operating performance. These factors may adversely affect the trading price of our common stock, regardless of actual operating performance.

In addition, stock markets from time to time experience extreme price and volume fluctuations that may be unrelated or disproportionate to the operating performance of companies. In the past, some shareholders have brought securities class action lawsuits against companies following periods of volatility in the market price of their securities