WS Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Worthington Steel Common Shares | NYSE:WS)

Worthington Steel Inc is a processor of carbon flat-rolled steel, a producer of laser-welded solutions, and a provider of electrical steel laminations. The company has manufacturing facilities across the United States, Canada, China, India, Germany and Mexico. It buys coils of steel from primary steel producers and processes them to precise type, thickness, length, width, shape, and surface quality required by customer specifications. The company's product lines and processing capabilities include; carbon flat-rolled steel processing, electrical steel laminations, and tailor welded products. Geographically, the company generates a majority of its revenue from the United States followed by Canada, Mexico, and other regions.

Worthington Steel Common Shares trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol WS.

As of February 2, 2026, WS stock price climbed to $42.35 with 125,817 million shares trading.

WS has a beta of 1.42, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. WS has a correlation of 0.36 to the broad based SPY ETF.

WS has a market cap of $2.15 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter Worthington Steel Common Shares reported $872 million in Revenue and $.38 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $78 million and missed earnings estimates by -$.05.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that WS belongs to (by Net Assets): IJR, VTI, IWM, VB, XME.

WS has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +42.4% while the SPY ETF gained +16.4%. WS has also outperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning +35.4% and +5.7%, respectively, while the SPY returned +2.8% and +0.7%, respectively.

WS support price is $39.14 and resistance is $41.32 (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 WS shares will trade within this expected range on the day.