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HLIO vs RS

Side-by-side comparison of Helios Technologies Inc. (HLIO) and Reliance Inc. (RS): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both HLIO and RS operate in Metal Fabrications (Industrials), so they compete in similar markets.
  • RS is the larger of the two at $18.37B, about 7.4x HLIO ($2.50B).
  • Over the past year, HLIO is up 151.3% and RS is up 25.9% - HLIO leads by 125.4 points.
  • RS has been more active in the news (6 items in the past 4 weeks vs 2 for HLIO).
  • RS has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 10 for HLIO).
PerformanceHLIO+151.29%RS+25.87%
2025-04-30+0.00%2026-04-30
MetricHLIORS
Company
Helios Technologies Inc.
Reliance Inc.
Price
$68.35+2.35%
$362.69+0.86%
Market cap
$2.50B
$18.37B
1M return
+5.54%
+19.29%
1Y return
+151.29%
+25.87%
Industry
Metal Fabrications
Metal Fabrications
Exchange
NASDAQ
NYSE
IPO
2021
1994
News (4w)
2
6
Recent ratings
10
25
HLIO

Helios Technologies Inc.

Helios Technologies, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and sells solutions for the hydraulics and electronics markets in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. The company operates in two segments, Hydraulics and Electronics. The Hydraulics segment offers cartridge valve technology products to control rates and direction of fluid flow, and to regulate and control pressures for industrial and mobile applications; quick release hydraulic coupling solutions for the agriculture, construction equipment, and industrial markets; and hydraulic system design that provides engineered solutions for machine users, manufacturers, or designers. This segment sells its products under the Sun Hydraulics, Faster, and Custom Fluidpower brands. The Electronics segment offers displays, controls, and instrumentation products for off-highway, recreational and commercial marine, power sports and specialty vehicles, agriculture and water pumping, power generation, health and wellness, and engine-driven industrial equipment markets. This segment sells its products under the Enovation Controls, Murphy, and Balboa Water Group brands. Helios Technologies, Inc. sells its hydraulic products primarily through value-add distributors, as well as directly to original equipment manufacturers; and electronic products to original equipment manufacturer customers. The company was formerly known as Sun Hydraulics Corporation and changed its name to Helios Technologies, Inc. in June 2019. Helios Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Sarasota, Florida.

RS

Reliance Inc.

Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. operates as a metals service center company. The company provides alloy, aluminum, brass, copper, carbon steel, stainless steel, titanium, and specialty steel products and processing services to general manufacturing, non-residential construction, transportation, aerospace and defense, energy, electronics and semiconductor fabrication, and heavy industries. It also offers precision sheet metal fabrication services, including laser cutting, stamping, turret punching, machining, and powder coating and welding; and toll processing and logistics services. The company operated approximately 300 metals service center processing and distribution facilities in 40 states in the United States and 13 in other countries. It sells its products directly to large original equipment manufacturers, and small machine shops, and fabricators. The company operates in the United States, Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, France, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, South Korea, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom. Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. was founded in 1939 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.