RUSSEL METALS ANNOUNCES 2025 ANNUAL & FOURTH QUARTER RESULTS

TORONTO, Feb. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ – Russel Metals Inc. (TSX:RUS) announces financial results for the fourth quarter and the year ended December 31, 2025.

Non-GAAP Measures and Ratios

We use a number of measures that are not prescribed by IFRS Accounting Standards (“IFRS” or “GAAP”) and as such may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other companies. We believe these measures are commonly employed to measure performance in our industry and are used by analysts, investors, lenders and other interested parties to evaluate financial performance and our ability to incur and service debt to support our business activities. These non-GAAP measures include EBITDA and Liquidity and are defined below. Refer to Non-GAAP Measures and Ratios on page 2 of our Management Discussion and Analysis.

The following table shows the reconciliation of net earnings in accordance with GAAP to EBITDA:

Our fourth quarter 2025 and full year 2025 results reflected a continuation of improving trend line metrics, as we are starting to generate the benefits from our 2024 acquisitions and internal investment initiatives.

• Revenues were $1.1 billion for the fourth quarter of 2025, which represented a 5% increase over the fourth quarter of 2024. Total revenues for 2025 represented a 9% increase over 2024. The increases were primarily related to the two acquisitions that were completed in the second half of 2024.
• Our average gross margin percentage for the fourth quarter of 2025 was 21.2%, which was an 80 basis point increase over the fourth quarter of 2024. For 2025, our average gross margin percentage was 21.8% which was a 90 basis point increase over 2024. These improvements were related to a pick-up in market conditions as well as the continuation of our value-added investment initiatives.
• In the fourth quarter of 2025, our EBITDA was $69 million, which was a 12% improvement over the fourth quarter of 2024. For 2025, our EBITDA was $337 million, which was a 13% increase over 2024.
• The metal service centers segment had solid shipments in the fourth quarter of 2025, even though it is typically a seasonally slower period. The fourth quarter 2025 tons shipped were down 5% versus the third quarter of 2025, but up 1% versus the fourth quarter of 2024. For 2025, our tons shipped achieved an annual record of almost 1.6 million tons, which was 15% higher than the 2024 tons shipped.

On December 31, 2025, we closed the acquisition of seven service centers from Kloeckner Metals Corporation (“Kloeckner”) for approximately US$95 million, subject to closing working capital and other normal course adjustments. This acquisition is a complimentary fit with our existing U.S. locations, as they will tie into our footprint in key regions of Florida/Georgia/Carolinas, Iowa/Wisconsin and Texas. As a result of this transaction, we expect our average annual revenues to grow by approximately US$500 million and expand the relative contribution from our U.S. based businesses to over 50%.

In 2025, we generated $200 million of cash from operating activities. In the fourth quarter of 2025, we generated $105 million of cash from operating activities, including $53 million from non-cash working capital.

For the year ended December 31, 2025, our revenues, EBITDA, and earnings per share were $4.6 billion, $337 million and $3.01 per share, respectively, compared to $4.3 billion, $299 million and $2.73 per share in 2024.

In the 2025 fourth quarter, our revenues, EBITDA and earnings per share were $1.1 billion, $69 million and $0.55 per share, respectively compared to $1.0 billion, $61 million and $0.47 per share in the fourth quarter of 2024 and $1.2 billion, $75 million and $0.63 per share in the third quarter of 2025. Our 2025 fourth quarter results declined relative to our 2025 third quarter primarily due to the typical seasonal dynamic. In addition, our fourth quarter results were impacted by several non-recurring items, including: (i) $3 million expense for the mark-to-market on stock-based compensation; (ii) $2 million of operating losses in certain locations in Western Canada that are undergoing operational changes; (iii) $1 million expense for transaction and transition costs for the Kloeckner acquisition; (iv) $2 million expense reversal for the tariff that was recently recovered from the Canadian government for an expense that was incurred in the third quarter; and (v) $1 million gain related to equipment sales.

In 2025, we invested $74 million in capital expenditures, including $14 million in the fourth quarter, that included a series of value-added equipment and facility modernization initiatives in both Canada and the U.S. Going forward, we expect to invest approximately $100 million per year over the next two years, as our pipeline of internal investment opportunities continues to grow.

Market Conditions

The implementation of tariffs on steel and aluminum in the first quarter of 2025 led to an increase in metal prices late in the first quarter of 2025. Steel prices moderated over the subsequent six months before stabilizing in the latter part of the year. The 2025 average price for hot rolled coil was US$849 per ton, which was higher than the US$772 per ton average for 2024. Plate prices averaged US$1,035 per ton in 2025, which was down from the 2024 average of US$1,070 per ton.

Capital Investment Growth Initiatives

In 2025, we grew the business through a series of internal and external investments, which resulted in an increase of our invested capital from $1.6 billion at the end of 2024 to almost $1.8 billion at the end of 2025. Our return on invested capital was 15% for 2025 and averaged 18% over the past three years. These results reflect a strong focus on growing invested capital in an efficient manner, as return on capital is the key element of our pay-for-performance culture.

In addition to our new investments, we also repatriated redundant capital in certain areas. During 2025, we announced a series of business improvement initiatives related to our Western Canadian operations, including the rationalization of locations in British Columbia and a related property sale. Once completed, we will have exceeded the upper end of our targeted capital reduction initiative from the 2024 acquisition of the Samuel branches.

The recent capital investment and repatriation initiatives are also part of our strategy to diversify and expand our business in a number of areas.

• U.S. operations represented 44% of consolidated 2025 revenues and will be over 50% after taking into account the Kloeckner acquisition.
• Approximately 11% of our 2025 revenues were stainless and aluminum products as compared to 9% in 2024 and 8% in 2023.
• Our value-added equipment and facility modernization initiatives are ongoing and will further increase our average margins through the cycle.

Returning Capital to Shareholders

Our approach to returning capital to shareholders is a balance between dividends and share buybacks. In 2025, we paid $96 million of dividends and repurchased $86 million of our shares (excluding the impact of the federal tax on share repurchases).

During the first quarter of 2025, we announced a 2.4% increase in our quarterly dividend from $0.42 per share to $0.43 per share. More recently, we just declared a dividend of $0.43 per share, payable on March 16, 2026, to shareholders of record at the close of business on February 27, 2026. Our 2025 dividend payments of $96 million were lower than the 2024 payments of $98 million, as the impact of our share repurchases more than offset the increase in our dividend per share.

In the fourth quarter of 2025, we purchased 0.6 million common shares at an average price per share of $40.58. In the full year of 2025, we purchased 2.1 million common shares, which represented approximately 4% of our beginning shares outstanding, at an average price per share of $41.06. In the period since the August 2022 normal course issuer bid was established, we purchased approximately 8.6 million common shares, which represents approximately 14% of our then outstanding shares, at an average price per share of $37.96 for total consideration of $326 million (excluding the impact of the federal tax on share repurchases).

Liquidity and Capital Structure

One of our key strategies is to maintain a strong capital structure in order to navigate through market cycles and be in a position to capitalize on opportunities. In 2025, we further strengthened our capital structure by issuing term debt and amending and extending our credit facility. We ended the year with a strong capital structure, with a net debt to invested capital ratio of approximately 10% and liquidity of $515 million.

On March 28, 2025, we completed an inaugural offering of investment grade term debt, with $300 million of 4.423% senior unsecured notes due March 28, 2030. On April 29, 2025, we amended and extended our credit facility to remove the springing lien feature, cancel the $150 million sidecar facility that was set to expire in 2026 and extend the maturity of the main facilities to 2029. On October 27, 2025, S&P Global upgraded our credit rating from BB+ to BBB-. We are now rated as an investment grade credit by both S&P Global and DBRS Morningstar.

Outlook

During 2025, steel prices were impacted by various tariffs that were initiated by the U.S. government and countered by other countries, including Canada. Future steel price changes may be impacted by further changes in such tariffs.

Our metal service center gross margins came down in the early part of the third quarter but stabilized over the latter part of the third quarter and into the fourth quarter. Going into the first quarter of 2026, there has been an improvement in market tone and an increase in most steel prices, which should lead to an improvement in our margins in the first quarter of 2026 as compared to the fourth quarter of 2025. In addition, we expect to see a seasonal recovery in shipments in the first quarter of 2026, subject to weather-related factors, that is similar in magnitide to the …

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