Company: ZEUS
Filing Date: 2025-05-02
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001437749-25-014325
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Company: OLYMPIC STEEL INC
Filing Date: 2025-05-02
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 8
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 information, including our financial statements and the notes thereto, which appear elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

Forward-Looking Information

This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and other documents we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, contain various forward-looking statements that are based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections about our future performance, business, our beliefs and management’s assumptions. In addition, we, or others on our behalf, may make forward-looking statements in press releases or written statements, or in our communications and discussions with investors and analysts in the normal course of business through meetings, conferences, webcasts, phone calls and conference calls. Words such as “may,” “will,” “anticipate,” “should,” “intend,” “expect,” “believe,” “estimate,” “project,” “plan,” “potential,” and “continue,” as well as the negative of these terms or similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, which are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those implied by such statements including, but not limited to:

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     the levels of imported steel in the United States, imposed tariffs and duties on imported and exported steel or other products, U.S. trade policy and its impact on the U.S. manufacturing industry, including retaliatory actions by other countries;

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     supply disruptions and inflationary pressures, including the availability and rising costs of transportation, energy, logistical services and labor;

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     risks associated with shortages of skilled labor, increased labor costs and our ability to attract and retain qualified personnel;

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      risks of volatile metals prices and inventory devaluation; 

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     rising interest rates and their impacts on our variable interest rate debt; 

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     supplier consolidation or addition of new capacity;

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     risks associated with economic sanctions, and current global conflicts, or additional war, military conflict, or hostilities could adversely affect global metals supply and pricing;

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     general and global business, economic, financial and political conditions, including, but not limited to, recessionary conditions and legislation passed under the current administration;

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     reduced production schedules, layoffs or work stoppages by our own, our suppliers’ or customers’ personnel;

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      our ability to successfully integrate