Comparison of GrafTech International Ltd. (EAF) and Luxfer Holdings PLC (NYSE:LXFR) | mild steel sheets

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“I don’t wanna talk/ About the things we’ve gone through/ Though it’s hurting me/ Now it’s history.”

Yeah. We like that business. It’s a good business for us. It continues to do well. We continue to invest, we’ve got nice company in Mexico with four locations and we’ve expanded that. We have a lead company in the U.S. that’s extremely busy and as Karla mentioned our CapEx dollars, that they — it’s a capital-intensive business, and we continue to expand their offerings when the — the number of units and the SARs report comes up, when it goes up or down, it’s still at a really, really high number, which is good for us and over the last couple of years we picked up a lot of share, if you will, because of the exposed aluminum that happens to be going, and that’s being designed into all kinds of different automobiles, particularly light trucks and what have you, SUVs, that’s kind of our sweet spot. And again this one particular company has kind of one of a kind type equipment that we design and build ourselves and they’ve got a great relationship with — in the market.

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They have a massive inventory of steel, which can help you to complete your project regardless of whether it’s small or large.

Importantly, our pre-tax income increased 45.7% year-over-year on an 18.7% year-over-year increase in sales. Demonstrating the strength of our business model and disciplined strategy of focusing on higher margin business. Our full-year non-GAAP earnings of $8.94 per diluted share was also a new Reliance record and represents a year-over-year increase in 64.3%. Turning to the fourth quarter, while we experienced the normal seasonal decline of lower shipping volumes due to the customer shutdowns and vacation schedules, underlying demand remained healthy and we continue to experience positive demand conditions across end markets we serve.

Moreover, iron ore prices may continue to rise if the Chinese government prohibits expansion of iron ore and steel projects in 2019.

Table 2 represents Insteel Industries Inc. (NASDAQ:IIIN) and Friedman Industries Incorporated (NYSEAMERICAN:FRD)’s net margins, return on assets and return on equity.

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Yeah, with the — let’s call it a target-rich environment. There’s a lot of opportunities coming our way. We looked at lot of them last year. We pulled the trigger on — how many, we did about three. But we don’t change our kind of game plan when it comes to look at M&A, you have to — you have to reach a certain point. We don’t buy fixer-uppers. We like — we only buy companies that are immediately accretive. They have to have the right people involved, they have to fit our culture. They have to good succession planning in place, and if you have those things and you make money and we like it. There’s pretty good chance we’ll talk to you and visit and see if we can’t work something out so they’re not there. Over the last couple of years this is my opinion.

As a percentage of net sales, our fourth quarter SG&A expenses were 18% down from 20.2% in the fourth quarter of 2017 and consistent with the third quarter of 2018. The reduction as a percentage of sales was primarily due to higher selling prices in 2018, which increased our net sales. In addition, our SG&A expenses in the fourth quarter of 2018 included a gain from the sale of non-core assets that reduced our expenses by $18.2 million.

Federal highway investment received a boost from the FY 2018 appropriations bill—Congress approved $2.5 billion for highway programs in addition to an increase of $930 million approved as part of the core highway program under the 2015 FAST Act law.  The market impact of the General Fund investment from the appropriations bill will depend on how quickly states obligate the funding.