NYSE:AKS - AK Steel Stock Price, News, & Analysis

AK Steel trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "AKS."

AK Steel Holding Co. (NYSE:AKS) issued its earnings results on Thursday, October, 25th. The basic materials company reported $0.21 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.23 by $0.02. The basic materials company earned $1.74 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.82 billion. AK Steel had a return on equity of 45.52% and a net margin of 0.67%. View AK Steel's Earnings History.

AK Steel is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, January 28th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for AK Steel.

AK Steel will be holding an earnings conference call on Tuesday, January 29th at 8:30 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

11 brokerages have issued twelve-month price objectives for AK Steel's shares. Their predictions range from $2.50 to $6.00. On average, they expect AK Steel's stock price to reach $4.7750 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 75.6% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for AK Steel.

11 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for AK Steel in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 6 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for AK Steel.

News stories about AKS stock have been trending positive this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research group identifies negative and positive press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. AK Steel earned a coverage optimism score of 2.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the basic materials company a news buzz of 1.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near future.

AK Steel saw a increase in short interest in December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 53,866,183 shares, an increase of 3.6% from the December 14th total of 55,876,957 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 10,764,840 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 5.0 days. Currently, 17.4% of the shares of the company are short sold. View AK Steel's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to AK Steel include APERAM/SH N Y REGISTRY SH (APEMY), Carpenter Technology (CRS), Commercial Metals (CMC), USINAS SIDERURG/S (USNZY), SunCoke Energy (SXC), SunCoke Energy Partners (SXCP), Timkensteel (TMST), Mechel PAO (MTL), Titan International (TWI), Universal Stainless & Alloy Products (USAP), Ossen Innovation (OSN) and China Precision Steel (CPSL).

AK Steel's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Virtu Financial LLC (0.05%), Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (0.04%), Steward Partners Investment Advisory LLC (0.01%) and Sippican Capital Advisors (0.01%). Company insiders that own AK Steel stock include James A Thomson, Joseph C Alter, Roger K Newport and William K Gerber. View Institutional Ownership Trends for AK Steel.

AKS stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Virtu Financial LLC, Steward Partners Investment Advisory LLC, Sippican Capital Advisors and Louisiana State Employees Retirement System. Company insiders that have sold AK Steel company stock in the last year include James A Thomson and William K Gerber. View Insider Buying and Selling for AK Steel.

Shares of AKS can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of AKS stock can currently be purchased for approximately $2.72.

AK Steel has a market capitalization of $858.27 million and generates $6.08 billion in revenue each year. The basic materials company earns $6.19 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.31 on an earnings per share basis. AK Steel employs 9,200 workers across the globe.

The official website for AK Steel is http://www.aksteel.com.

AK Steel's mailing address is 9227 CENTRE POINTE DRIVE, WEST CHESTER OH, 45069. The basic materials company can be reached via phone at 513-425-5000 or via email at [email protected]