FRD Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Friedman Industries | NASDAQ:FRD)

Friedman Industries Inc is a manufacturer and processor of metals and operates in two reportable segments: flat-roll products and tubular products. The flat-roll product segment consists of flat-roll processing facilities located in Hickman, Arkansas; Decatur, Alabama; Miami, Florida; East Chicago, Indiana; Granite City, Illinois and Sinton, Texas and a flat-roll distribution facility located in Orlando, Florida. The tubular product segment consists of the Company's Texas Tubular Products division (TTP) located in Lone Star, Texas. TTP operates two electric resistance welded pipe mills with a combined outside diameter (OD). Its products are flat-roll products and tubular products.

Friedman Industries trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol FRD.

As of October 23, 2026, FRD stock price climbed to $41.83 with 43,566 million shares trading.

FRD has a beta of 1.62, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. FRD has a correlation of 0.12 to the broad based SPY ETF.

FRD has a market cap of $301.71 million. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, FRD traded as high as $48.77 and as low as $9.50.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that FRD belongs to (by Net Assets): DFSV, VTI, IWM, DFAT, DFAS.

FRD has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +111.3% while the SPY ETF gained +14.3%. FRD has also outperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning +22.9% and -0.3%, respectively, while the SPY returned +3.2% and -2.4%, respectively.

FRD support price is $39.30 and resistance is $41.88 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that FRD shares will trade within this expected range on the day.