HIGHOutside partySupplier
76%
top 25 suppliers
“10-K Item 1A: 'our top 25 suppliers represented approximately 76% of our purchases.'”
RYZ · Concentration risk · 10-K extracted
Ryerson Holding (RYZ) concentration risks
Updated
The most significant concentration Ryerson Holding discloses is top 25 suppliers at 76%, classified HIGH by disclosed size. Below: the full set from the latest 10-K — verbatim quotes, filing references, and a synthesis of what these exposures mean together.
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Source: Ryerson Holding’s SEC Form 10-K filed — view the filing on SEC EDGAR ↗
At a glance
Disclosed-size breakdown · 3 disclosed concentrations
HIGH1
MEDIUM0
LOW2
Disclosed concentrations
Each card carries a disclosed-size chip (HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW — how large the exposure is as a share of revenue, not how dangerous it is) and a nature tag: Built-in(the company’s own model, geography, or products) or Outside party (an external customer, supplier, or distributor it relies on).
LOWOutside partyCustomer
15%
top 10 customers
“10-K Item 1: 'no single customer, including their subcontractors, accounted for more than 6% of our sales, and our top 10 customers, including their subcontractors accounted for approximately 15% of our sales.'”
LOWBuilt-inRegulatory
China land use rights
“10-K Item 1A: 'During 2025, the Chinese government terminated one of our land use rights agreements resulting in impairment of assets and disruptions to our business, the impact of which was not significant to the consolidated financial statements.'”
TrendMatrix Research · concentration synthesis
What these concentrations mean together
updated 2026-07-06Ryerson Holding's concentration risk sits almost entirely on the supply side rather than the customer side. The top 25 suppliers represented approximately 76% of purchases — a high-share dependency that gives a relatively small group of suppliers considerable influence over Ryerson's input costs and availability. By contrast, the customer base is genuinely diversified: no single customer, including subcontractors, accounted for more than 6% of sales, and the top 10 customers together represented only about 15% of sales — a low-share concentration that limits the risk of losing any one buyer. A separate, smaller structural item involves China: the Chinese government terminated one of the company's land use rights agreements in 2025, causing an asset impairment and business disruption, though the company describes the financial impact as not significant. Netting these together, Ryerson's real concentration exposure is on the procurement side — a shock affecting its top suppliers would matter far more than any customer-specific event, given how broad and unconcentrated its customer base already is. The China land-rights issue is a disclosed, low-share, one-off structural matter rather than an ongoing dependency.
For the engine’s reasoning on RYZ’s current verdict — including which dimensions drove the score — see the per-dimension breakdown.
Industry peers · Metal Fabrication
Peer concentration profile
| Symbol | Name | HIGH | MEDIUM | LOW | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ESAB | ESAB Corporation | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| ATI | ATI Inc. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| RYZ● | Ryerson Holding Corporation | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| CMC | Commercial Metals Company | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| CRS | Carpenter Technology Corporatio | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPGI | GPGI, Inc. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Concentration counts reflect items disclosed in each peer’s most recent 10-K; disclosed-size classification uses TrendMatrix’s internal 10-K extraction taxonomy.