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Reliance Inc: A 15% Sales Surge Meets Cost Inflation Headwinds!

Reliance Inc. delivered a strong first quarter, supported by better-than-expected volumes, pricing, and operating leverage across a diversified metals service center platform. The company’s record tons sold, sequential and year-over-year shipment growth, and continued outperformance versus broader service center industry shipments indicate that demand conditions remained resilient across several end markets. Sales increased 15% year-over-year, while non-GAAP earnings per share rose nearly 37% to $5.16, reflecting the combination of higher shipments, stronger pricing, disciplined execution, and improved cost absorption. The key positive in the result is the breadth of demand support. Nonresidential construction and general manufacturing each represented about one-third of first-quarter sales, with strength coming from data centers, energy infrastructure, heavy civil projects, public infrastructure, industrial machinery, shipbuilding, military programs, consumer products, and construction machinery. Defense and space-related aerospace programs remained robust, while semiconductor demand showed early signs of improvement after a weak period.