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

Friedman Industries Inc is engaged in the manufacturing and processing of steel products. The company's operating segments include flat-roll products and Tubular Products. It generates maximum revenue from the flat-roll products segment. The company's products and services include Temper Pass, Cut-To-Length, Whole Coils, Toll Processing, Electric Resistance Welded Pipe (ERW), New Mill Secondary, and Pipe Finishing Services.

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

As of April 22, 2026, FRD stock price climbed to $19.37 with 54,356 million shares trading.

FRD has a beta of 0.71, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. FRD has a correlation of 0.07 to the broad based SPY ETF.

FRD has a market cap of $137.76 million. This is considered a Micro Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, FRD traded as high as $24.37 and as low as $9.50.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that FRD belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, IWM, VXF, DFMC, IWN.

FRD has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +16.5%, while the SPY ETF gained +39.6%. In the last 3 month period, FRD fell short of the market, returning -1.1%, while SPY returned +3.8%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks FRD has outperformed the stock market by returning +12.0%, while SPY returned +7.7%.

FRD support price is $18.27 and resistance is $19.45 (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.