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KALU vs RBC

Side-by-side comparison of Kaiser Aluminum Corporation (KALU) and RBC Bearings Incorporated (RBC): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both KALU and RBC operate in Metal Fabrications (Industrials), so they compete in similar markets.
  • RBC is the larger of the two at $18.70B, about 6.4x KALU ($2.91B).
  • Over the past year, KALU is up 126.9% and RBC is up 55.6% - KALU leads by 71.3 points.
  • RBC has been more active in the news (27 items in the past 4 weeks vs 11 for KALU).
  • Both have 13 recent analyst ratings on file.
PerformanceKALU+126.88%RBC+55.61%
2025-06-09+0.00%2026-06-08
MetricKALURBC
Company
Kaiser Aluminum Corporation
RBC Bearings Incorporated
Price
$179.11+1.59%
$592.87+0.46%
Market cap
$2.91B
$18.70B
1M return
+1.61%
-3.10%
1Y return
+126.88%
+55.61%
Industry
Metal Fabrications
Metal Fabrications
Exchange
NASDAQ
NYSE
IPO
2022
News (4w)
11
27
Recent ratings
13
13
KALU

Kaiser Aluminum Corporation

Kaiser Aluminum Corporation manufactures and sells semi-fabricated specialty aluminum mill products. The company provides rolled, extruded, and drawn aluminum products used principally for aerospace and defense, automotive, consumer durables, electronics, electrical, and machinery and equipment applications. Its aerospace and high strength products include heat treat plates and sheets, hard alloy extruded shapes, cold finish rods and bars, seamless drawn tubes, and billets for aerospace and defense industries. The company's automotive extrusions include extruded aluminum products for structural components, crash management systems, anti-lock braking systems, and drawn tubes for drive shafts, as well as offers fabrication services, including sawing and cutting to length. Its general engineering products comprise alloy plate, sheet, rod, bar, tube, wire, and standard extrusion shapes used in various applications, including the production of military vehicles, ordnances, semiconductor manufacturing cells, electronic devices, after-market motor sport parts, tooling plates, parts for machinery and equipment, bolts, screws, nails, and rivets. The company also offers extruded, drawn, and cast billet aluminum products for industrial end uses. It sells its products directly to customers through sales personnel located in the United States, Canada, Western Europe, and China, as well as through independent sales agents in other regions of Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. Kaiser Aluminum Corporation was founded in 1946 and is based in Foothill Ranch, California.

RBC

RBC Bearings Incorporated

Regal Beloit Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and sells electric motors, electrical motion controls, and power generation and transmission products worldwide. It operates through four segments: Commercial Systems, Industrial Systems, Climate Solutions, and Power Transmission Solutions. The Commercial Systems segment provides AC and DC motors, electronic variable speed controls, fans, blowers, and precision stator and rotor kits. The Industrial Systems segment offers AC motors for industrial applications; electric alternators for prime and standby power applications to data centers, distributed energy, microgrid, rental marine, agriculture, healthcare, mobile, and defense markets; and switchgear for healthcare, government, and waste water applications, as well as residential, commercial, and industrial applications. The Climate Solutions segment provides fractional motors, electronic variable speed controls, and blowers for use in a residential and light commercial air moving applications; and fractional horsepower motors and blowers for white goods, water heating equipment, small pumps, compressors, and fans. The Power Transmission Solutions segment offers bearings; conveyors; disc, diaphragms, gear and flexible couplings, transmission elements, gears, grids, jaws, elastomers, and disc couplings; mechanical power transmission drives and components; and worm gearing, shaft configuration, helical offset, concentric and right angle, bevel and miter gearing, and spur gearing products, as well as modular plastic belts, conveying chains, and hydraulic pump drives. This segment serves beverage, bulk handling, metal, special machinery, energy, and aerospace and general industrial markets. The company sells its products directly to original equipment manufacturers and end-users through a network of direct and independent sales representatives, and distributors. Regal Beloit Corporation was founded in 1955 and is based in Beloit, Wisconsin.

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