While the stock price has doubled over the past year (it will split 2-for-1 in late May), Longbow Research's David S. MacGregor likes that the company is active in the growing South and that it operates both a recycling business and a global distribution operation that can offset downturns in domestic steel demand.
More than a year ago shareholders voted to approve a reverse split to get the stock price back above the Nasdaq-mandated price point, should it have become necessary.