SEC Form S-8 filed by Friedman Industries Inc.

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 7, 2025

Registration No. 333- 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

FRIEDMAN INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

FRIEDMAN INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED 2025 LONG-TERM INCENTIVE PLAN

(Full title of the plan)

Alex LaRue

Chief Financial Officer – Secretary and Treasurer

Friedman Industries, Incorporated

1121 Judson Road Suite 124

Longview, Texas 75601

Telephone: (903) 758-3431  

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copies to:

Brian P. Fenske

Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP

1550 Lamar, Suite 2000

Houston, Texas 77010

Telephone: (713) 651-5151 

Facsimile: (713) 651-5246 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See definition of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ☐

EXPLANATORY NOTE

On September 18, 2025, at the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Friedman Industries, Incorporated (the “Company”), the Company’s stockholders approved the Friedman Industries, Incorporated 2025 Long-Term Incentive Plan (the “Plan”).

This Registration Statement on Form S-8 (this “Registration Statement”) is being filed by the Company to register 550,000 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $1.00 per share (“Common Stock”), which may be issued under the Plan.

PART I

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

The documents containing the information specified in Part I of this Registration Statement have been or will be sent or given to participating employees as specified in Rule 428(b)(1) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and the instructions to Form S-8. In accordance with the rules and regulations of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) and the instructions to Form S-8, such documents are not being filed with the Commission either as part of this Registration Statement or as prospectuses or prospectus supplements pursuant to Rule 424 of the Securities Act. These documents and the documents incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement pursuant to Item 3 of Part II of this Registration Statement, taken together, constitute a prospectus that meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

ITEM 3.         Incorporation of Documents by Reference

The following documents, which have been filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), are incorporated by reference in, and shall be deemed to be a part of, this Registration Statement:

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, Friedman Industries, Incorporated certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Houston, State of Texas, on October 7, 2025.

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Michael J. Taylor and Alex LaRue, and each of them, singly, as such person’s true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person in such person’s name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Commission, granting until each said attorney-in-fact and agents full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite or necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as such person might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or either of them or their substitute or substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.