NYSE:CLF - Cleveland-Cliffs Stock Price, News, & Analysis

Cleveland-Cliffs trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "CLF."

Cleveland-Cliffs declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, October 19th. Investors of record on Friday, January 4th will be paid a dividend of $0.05 per share on Tuesday, January 15th. This represents a $0.20 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.39%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, January 3rd. View Cleveland-Cliffs' Dividend History.

Cleveland-Cliffs announced that its Board of Directors has initiated a stock repurchase program on Monday, November 26th 2018, which permits the company to repurchase $200,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to repurchase up to 7.7% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are often an indication that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

Cleveland-Cliffs Inc (NYSE:CLF) announced its earnings results on Friday, October, 19th. The mining company reported $0.64 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.66 by $0.02. The mining company earned $742 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $736.06 million. Cleveland-Cliffs had a negative return on equity of 146.72% and a net margin of 36.43%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 6.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $0.36 EPS. View Cleveland-Cliffs' Earnings History.

Cleveland-Cliffs is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, January 24th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Cleveland-Cliffs.

12 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for Cleveland-Cliffs' shares. Their forecasts range from $5.00 to $14.00. On average, they anticipate Cleveland-Cliffs' stock price to reach $11.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 31.4% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Cleveland-Cliffs.

12 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Cleveland-Cliffs in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 4 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Cleveland-Cliffs.

News articles about CLF stock have trended somewhat positive on Wednesday, according to InfoTrie. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Cleveland-Cliffs earned a coverage optimism score of 1.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the mining company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days.

Cleveland-Cliffs saw a increase in short interest during the month of November. As of November 30th, there was short interest totalling 53,165,745 shares, an increase of 9.1% from the November 15th total of 48,745,811 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 9,207,050 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 5.8 days. Approximately 18.2% of the shares of the company are short sold. View Cleveland-Cliffs' Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Cleveland-Cliffs include FORTESCUE METAL/S (FSUGY), First Quantum Minerals (FQVLF), Compania de Minas Buenaventura SAA (BVN), Turquoise Hill Resources (TRQ), Lundin Mining (LUNMF), VEDA RESO/PAR VTG FPD 0.1 (VDNRF), EXXARO RESOURCE/S (EXXAY), IMPALA PLATINUM/S (IMPUY), Nexa Resources (NEXA), Centamin (CELTF), Pretium Resources (PVG), Hudbay Minerals (HBM), North American Palladium (PALDF), Lithium Americas (LAC) and Mountain Province Diamonds (MPVD).

Cleveland-Cliffs' stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (10.14%), Vanguard Group Inc (10.14%), Ruffer LLP (5.38%), Fisher Asset Management LLC (2.88%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (2.12%) and Hennessy Advisors Inc. (0.96%). Company insiders that own Cleveland-Cliffs stock include Douglas C Taylor, Eric M Rychel, John T Baldwin, Joseph A Rutkowski, Lourenco Goncalves and Susan Miranda Green. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Cleveland-Cliffs.

CLF stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Bridgewater Associates LP, Neuberger Berman Group LLC, Marshall Wace North America L.P., AQR Capital Management LLC, Penn Capital Management Co. Inc., Seven Eight Capital LP, Creative Planning and Dimensional Fund Advisors LP. View Insider Buying and Selling for Cleveland-Cliffs.

CLF stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Fisher Asset Management LLC, Vanguard Group Inc, Vanguard Group Inc., Hennessy Advisors Inc., Ruffer LLP, Pelham Capital Ltd., Foundry Partners LLC and Prudential Financial Inc.. Company insiders that have bought Cleveland-Cliffs stock in the last two years include Douglas C Taylor, Eric M Rychel, John T Baldwin, Joseph A Rutkowski and Lourenco Goncalves. View Insider Buying and Selling for Cleveland-Cliffs.

Shares of CLF 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 CLF stock can currently be purchased for approximately $8.37.

Cleveland-Cliffs has a market capitalization of $2.39 billion and generates $2.33 billion in revenue each year. The mining company earns $367 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.50 on an earnings per share basis. Cleveland-Cliffs employs 2,938 workers across the globe.

The official website for Cleveland-Cliffs is http://www.clevelandcliffs.com.

Cleveland-Cliffs' mailing address is 200 PUBLIC SQUARE SUITE 3300, CLEVELAND OH, 44114. The mining company can be reached via phone at 216-694-5700 or via email at [email protected]