Company: ZEUS
Filing Date: 2025-08-01
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001437749-25-024377
Chunk: 24

Company: OLYMPIC STEEL INC
Filing Date: 2025-08-01
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 8
Chunk 24
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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; and

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     unanticipated developments that could occur with respect to contingencies such as litigation, arbitration and environmental matters, including any developments that would require any increase in our costs for such contingencies.

Should one or more of these or other risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those anticipated, intended, expected, believed, estimated, projected or planned. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. We undertake no obligation to republish revised forward-looking statements to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events or circumstances after the date hereof, except as otherwise required by law.

Overview

We are a leading metals service center focused on the direct sale and value-added processing of carbon and coated sheet, plate and coil products; stainless steel sheet