The Company is one of North America’s premier value-added steel processors with the ability to provide a diversified range of products and services that span a variety of end markets. The Company maintains market-leading positions in the North American carbon flat-rolled steel and tailor welded blank industries and is one of the largest global producers of electrical steel laminations. For over 70 years, the Company has been delivering high quality steel processing capabilities across a variety of end-markets including automotive, heavy truck, agriculture, construction, and energy. The Company serves its customers primarily by processing flat-rolled steel coils, which are sourced primarily from various North American steel mills, into the precise type, thickness, length, width, shape, and surface quality required by customer specifications. The Company sells steel on a direct basis, whereby it is exposed to the risks and rewards of ownership of the material while in its possession. Additionally, the Company toll processes steel under a fee for service arrangement whereby it processes customer-owned material. The Company’s manufacturing facilities further benefit from the flexibility to scale between direct and tolling services based on demand dynamics throughout the year.

On December 1, 2023 at 12:01 a.m., Eastern Time, Worthington Enterprises, Inc., then known as Worthington Industries, Inc. (the “Former Parent”), completed the spin-off of its steel processing business, Worthington Steel, into a stand-alone publicly traded company. On November 30, 2023, in connection with the Separation, the Company entered into several agreements with the Former Parent that govern the relationship between the Former Parent and the Company following the Separation, including the Separation and Distribution Agreement, Tax Matters Agreement, Employee Matters Agreement, Steel Supply and Services Agreement, and Transition Services Agreement.

The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Worthington Steel and its consolidated subsidiaries. Material intercompany accounts and transactions are eliminated.

On June 3, 2025, the Company, through its wholly owned subsidiary Tempel Steel Company, LLC (“Tempel”), completed its acquisition of 52% of the issued and outstanding capital stock of S.I.T.E.M. S.p.A., a joint stock company incorporated under the laws of Italy (“Sitem” and, together with its subsidiaries, Stanzwerk AG, Decoup S.A.S. and Sitem Slovakia spol. s r.o., the “Sitem Group”). The results of Sitem Group are included in the Company’s consolidated financial statements on a one-month reporting lag to allow for the timely completion of its financial reporting process. For additional information, see “Note 12 – Acquisitions.”

The Company owns controlling interests in the following four operating joint ventures: Spartan Steel Coating, L.L.C. (“Spartan”) (52% interest); TWB Company, L.L.C. (“TWB”) (55% interest); Worthington Samuel Coil Processing, L.L.C. (“WSCP”) (63% interest); and the Sitem Group (52% interest). The Company also owns a controlling interest (51% interest) in Worthington Specialty Processing (“WSP”), which became a nonoperating joint venture on October 31, 2022, when its remaining net assets were sold. These joint ventures are consolidated with the equity owned by the other joint venture members shown as noncontrolling interests on the Company’s consolidated balance sheets, and their portions of net earnings and other comprehensive income (loss) (“OCI”) shown as net earnings or comprehensive income attributable to noncontrolling interests in the Company’s consolidated statements of earnings and comprehensive income, respectively.

The Company owns a noncontrolling interest (50% interest) in one unconsolidated joint venture: Serviacero Planos, S. de R.L. de C.V. (“Serviacero Worthington”). The Company’s investment in its unconsolidated affiliate is accounted for using the equity method with the Company’s proportionate share of income or loss recognized within equity in net income (loss) of unconsolidated affiliate (“equity income”) in its consolidated statements of earnings. See further discussion of the Company’s unconsolidated affiliate in “Note 3 – Investment in Unconsolidated Affiliate.”

The Company’s operations are managed principally on a products and services basis under a single group organizational structure. The Company has determined that it has only one operating segment and therefore one reportable segment after considering several sources of information, including the Company’s internal organizational structure, the basis on which budgets and forecasts are prepared, the financial information that the Company’s chief operating decision maker (“CODM”) reviews in evaluating company performance and

determining how resources should be allocated, and how the Company releases information to the public and analysts. The Company’s CODM is Worthington Steel’s chief executive officer (“CEO”).

New Accounting Policy - Redeemable Noncontrolling Interest

During the first quarter of fiscal 2026, the Company entered into an agreement with certain minority interest holders of the Sitem Group that provides them with redemption rights (i.e., put options) that could require the Company to purchase the minority interest holders’ remaining 48% noncontrolling interests in the Sitem Group upon the occurrence of specified events. These redemption rights represent a new type of transaction for the Company, and accordingly the following accounting policy is being disclosed for the first time. As these redemption rights are not solely within the control of the Company such interests are classified as redeemable noncontrolling interest outside of permanent equity, in mezzanine equity, on the Company’s consolidated balance sheet.

At initial recognition, redeemable noncontrolling interests are recorded at their issuance-date, or acquisition date, fair value. Subsequently, redeemable noncontrolling interests that are currently redeemable, or probable of becoming redeemable, are adjusted to the greater of (i) current redemption value or (ii) initial carrying amount. Adjustments to redemption value are recorded through retained earnings or, in the absence of retained earnings, through additional paid-in capital. Upward adjustments are considered a deemed dividend, and would result in a reduction to earnings available to common shareholders for the calculation of earnings per common share. For additional information, see “Note 9 – Mezzanine Equity.”

Prior-period financial statements were not recast, as these redemption rights were not applicable in prior periods.

The following table provides a reconciliation of cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash reported within the consolidated balance sheets that sum to the total of the same such amounts shown in the consolidated statements of cash flows as of the beginning and end of the periods presented:


	Three Months Ended
	August 31,		August 31,
(In millions)	2025		2024
Reconciliation of cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash, beginning of period
Cash and cash equivalents		38.0		40.2
Restricted cash		54.9		-
Total cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash, at beginning of period	$	92.9	$	40.2

Reconciliation of cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash, end of period
Cash and cash equivalents		78.3		36.0
Restricted cash		-		-
Total cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash, at end of period	$	78.3	$	36.0

The Company sells its products and services to a diverse customer base and a broad range of end markets. The automotive industry is the largest end market for the Company, which is largely driven by the production schedules of Ford, General Motors and Stellantis North America (the “Detroit Three Automakers”).

While the Company’s business is not dependent on any one customer, net sales to certain customers were at least 10% of the Company’s consolidated net sales for the periods presented. A significant loss of, or decrease in, business from any of these customers could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s consolidated net sales and financial results if the Company was not able to obtain replacement business. Also, the Company’s sales may be increasingly sensitive to deterioration in the financial condition of, or other adverse developments with respect to, one or more of the Company’s largest customers.

The following table summarizes the concentration percentage of consolidated net sales for the periods presented:


	Three Months Ended
	August 31,			August 31,
(Percentage of Net Sales)	2025			2024
End Market – Automotive		56	%		51	%
Detroit Three Automakers		35	%		32	%
Largest Automotive Customers:
Customer A		13	%		13	%
Customer B		15	%		13	%

These interim unaudited consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the U.S. (“GAAP”) for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X of the SEC. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and notes required by GAAP for complete financial statements. In the opinion of management, all adjustments that are of a normal and recurring nature necessary for a fair presentation of the consolidated financial statements for these interim periods have been included. Operating results for the first quarter of fiscal 2026 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the entirety of fiscal 2026 or any other quarter. For further information, refer to the consolidated and combined financial statements and notes thereto included in the 2025 Form 10-K.

The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes. Actual results could differ materially from those estimates.

Reclassifications: Certain amounts disclosed within the Company’s consolidated statement of cash flow for the first quarter of fiscal 2026 earnings release have been reclassified to conform to the current presentation of the net (gain) loss on sale of assets and proceeds from sale of assets, net of selling costs. These reclassifications had no impact on total cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements

There have been no new accounting standards adopted since the filing of the 2025 Form 10-K that have significance, or potential significance, to the interim condensed consolidated financial statements.

New Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted

Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses – In November 2024, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards (“ASU”) Update 2024-03, Income Statement – Reporting Comprehensive Income – Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses (“ASU 2024-03”). This guidance requires the disaggregation of certain expense captions into specified categories in disclosures within the notes to the financial statements to provide enhanced transparency into the expense captions presented on the statement of earnings. It is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2027, with early adoption permitted. Adoption may be applied either prospectively to financial statements issued for reporting periods after the effective date of ASU 2024-03 or retrospectively to any or all prior periods presented in the financial statements. The Company is evaluating the impact of this guidance on the Company’s related disclosures.

Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures – In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU No. 2023-09, Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures, which expands disclosure requirements for income taxes, specifically related to the rate reconciliation and income taxes paid. The ASU is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024. The Company is currently evaluating the effect the adoption of the ASU may have on its disclosures.