Is ZEUS a high-quality business?

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

What is Olympic Steel, Inc.'s AlphaQuality grade?

AlphaQuality assigns a letter grade (A through F) to ZEUS 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 ZEUS 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.

ZEUS - Olympic Steel, Inc.

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AlphaQuality

Quantitative six-pillar business-quality grade

Other Commodity Producers

AlphaQuality — archetype-weighted quantitative grade

C- 49.9 / 100 composite

Composite Grade

Composite of six pillars weighted for other commodity producers businesses. Purely quantitative — no stock price or analyst input.

Profitability

Weight: 15%

C- 49.4

5yr Avg ROIC 7.2% 46/100
Operating Margin Trend +0.10 pp/yr 58/100

Capital Efficiency

Weight: 10%

C 56.8

5yr Avg ROE 9.5% 58/100
5yr Share-Count CAGR 0.5% 55/100

Growth Quality

Weight: 5%

C- 46.2

5yr Revenue CAGR 12.0% 85/100
5yr EPS CAGR -42.8% 0/100
Revenue-Growth Years (5) 2/5 40/100

Cash Generation

Weight: 25%

B- 64.6

5yr FCF Margin 2.2% 36/100
5yr FCF/NI Conversion 1.04x 99/100

Balance Sheet

Weight: 25%

C- 50.0

Net Debt / EBITDA 3.82x 34/100
Interest Coverage (EBIT/Int) 2.90x 43/100
Altman Z-Score 3.51 88/100

Stability

Weight: 20%

D- 28.8

EPS Volatility (σ/μ) 0.88 5/100
Piotroski F-Score 5 56/100
Negative-Revenue Years (5) 3/5 40/100

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

We deliberately ignore stock price, analyst targets, and consensus ratings so the grade is suitable for backtesting forward returns. A minimum of 5 fiscal years of audited statements is required; distressed and highly leveraged infrastructure businesses are declared ungradable rather than forced into a numeric score.