Technical Analysis for SCHN - Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc.

Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc. manufactures and exports recycled ferrous metal products worldwide. The company operates in three segments: Metals Recycling Business (MRB), Auto Parts Business (APB), and Steel Manufacturing Business (SMB). The MRB segment buys, collects, processes, recycles, sells, and brokers ferrous scrap metals, as well as processes mixed and large pieces of scrap metal into smaller pieces by crushing, sorting, shearing, shredding, and torching. This segment offers ferrous scrap metal, a feedstock used in the production of finished steel products; and nonferrous products, including aluminum, copper, stainless steel, nickel, brass, titanium, lead, high temperature alloys, and joint products to steel mills, foundries, and smelters. The APB segment procures used and salvaged vehicles and sells serviceable used auto parts from these vehicles through its 51 self-service auto parts stores in the United States and western Canada, as well as sells autobodies, and parts containing ferrous and nonferrous materials, such as engines, transmissions, alternators, and catalytic converters to metals recyclers. The SMB segment produces a range of finished steel products using recycled metal and other raw materials. Its products include semi-finished goods, such as billets; and finished goods consisting of rebar, coiled rebar, wire rod, merchant bar, and other specialty products. This segment serves steel service centers, construction industry subcontractors, steel fabricators, wire drawers, and farm and wood products suppliers. Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc. was founded in 1906 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.