Is RYI a high-quality business?

AlphaMadera's AlphaQuality grade scores Ryerson Holding Corporation on six pillars — profitability, capital efficiency, balance-sheet strength, growth durability, cash generation, and shareholder yield. The composite letter grade reflects how RYI compares to a Buffett-style quality bar.

What is Ryerson Holding Corporation's AlphaQuality grade?

AlphaQuality assigns a letter grade (A through F) to RYI based on a six-pillar quantitative model. The live page shows the composite grade plus each pillar's individual score with the underlying metrics.

What makes RYI a quality stock?

AlphaQuality looks at return on capital, free-cash-flow margins, debt-to-equity, revenue stability, dividend and buyback policy, and operating-margin trend. Stocks scoring well across all six pillars earn higher grades — the methodology favors compounders over cyclicals.

RYI - Ryerson Holding Corporation

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AlphaQuality

Quantitative six-pillar business-quality grade

Platform & Compounding FCF

AlphaQuality — archetype-weighted quantitative grade

F 30.0 / 100 pillar composite

Composite Grade

Composite of six pillars weighted for platform & compounding fcf businesses. Purely quantitative — the six pillars score only reported financials, no analyst input.

⚠ 2 of the last 5 fiscal years showed negative net income — AlphaQuality will not grade above F for persistent unprofitability in a platform & compounding fcf business.

Grade overrides the 30.0 pillar composite because hard gates always win. Use the pillar breakdown below to see where the underlying numbers sit.

Profitability

Weight: 25%

C 51.8

5yr Avg ROIC 13.2% 74/100
Operating Margin Trend -2.89 pp/yr 0/100

Capital Efficiency

Weight: 15%

A+ 94.7

5yr Avg ROE 21.3% 94/100
5yr Share-Count CAGR -3.3% 96/100

Growth Quality

Weight: 25%

C 56.2

5yr Revenue CAGR 5.7% 63/100
Revenue-Growth Years (5) 2/5 40/100

Cash Generation

Weight: 20%

C+ 60.3

5yr FCF Margin 2.7% 39/100
5yr FCF/NI Conversion 0.87x 87/100

Balance Sheet

Weight: 10%

F 17.7

Net Debt / EBITDA 23.34x 0/100
Interest Coverage (EBIT/Int) -0.83x 0/100
Altman Z-Score 2.81 71/100

Stability

Weight: 5%

F 24.8

EPS Volatility (σ/μ) 0.92 3/100
Negative-Revenue Years (5) 3/5 40/100
Piotroski F-Score 4 44/100

Not enough curated-guru data to call a flow.

Cooperman sold -100%

How this is calculated

AlphaQuality grades six pillars from 0-100 and weights each by archetype:

Profitability (25%) — 5yr Avg ROIC, Operating Margin Trend
Capital Efficiency (15%) — 5yr Avg ROE, 5yr Share-Count CAGR
Growth Quality (25%) — 5yr Revenue CAGR, Revenue-Growth Years (5)
Cash Generation (20%) — 5yr FCF Margin, 5yr FCF/NI Conversion
Balance Sheet (10%) — Net Debt / EBITDA, Interest Coverage (EBIT/Int), Altman Z-Score
Stability (5%) — EPS Volatility (σ/μ), Negative-Revenue Years (5), Piotroski F-Score

The six pillars read only reported financial-statement fields — no analyst targets or consensus ratings. The archetype that picks which pillar formulas apply is not fully price-free, though: it can route a company to the distressed/ungradable archetype based on price vs. its 52-week high, and beta affects one classification check. A minimum of 5 fiscal years of audited statements is required. Insurers and banks are graded on their own methodology — insurers on loss ratio, its trend and stability, and premiums-to-surplus; banks on the efficiency ratio, its trend and stability, and equity-to-assets — rather than on industrial margin/ROIC signals. Distressed, highly leveraged infrastructure, asset-manager, and other financial businesses are declared ungradable rather than forced into a numeric score.