NYSE:XUnited States Steel Stock Price, Forecast & News

United States Steel's stock was trading at $5.99 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, X stock has increased by 13.7% and is now trading at $6.81. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

15 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for United States Steel in the last year. There are currently 7 sell ratings, 6 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for United States Steel.

United States Steel is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, August 6th 2020. View our earnings forecast for United States Steel.

United States Steel Co. (NYSE:X) announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, April, 30th. The basic materials company reported ($0.73) EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of ($0.80) by $0.07. The basic materials company had revenue of $2.75 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $2.79 billion. United States Steel had a negative return on equity of 4.63% and a negative net margin of 8.92%. The firm's quarterly revenue was down 21.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $0.47 EPS. View United States Steel's earnings history.

United States Steel announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, April 30th. Investors of record on Monday, May 11th will be given a dividend of $0.01 per share on Wednesday, June 10th. This represents a $0.04 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.59%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, May 8th. View United States Steel's dividend history.

United States Steel announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a stock repurchase program on Thursday, November 1st 2018, which permits the company to buyback $300,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to repurchase up to 6.7% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are usually an indication that the company's board of directors believes its shares are undervalued.

United States Steel updated its second quarter 2020 Pre-Market earnings guidance on Wednesday, June, 17th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of -3.06--3.06 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $-1.75.

15 brokers have issued 12 month target prices for United States Steel's stock. Their forecasts range from $4.00 to $10.50. On average, they anticipate United States Steel's share price to reach $8.11 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 19.1% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for United States Steel.

Press coverage about X stock has been trending negative on Thursday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. United States Steel earned a daily sentiment score of -2.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news headlines about the basic materials company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days. View the latest news about United States Steel.

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United States Steel trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "X."

United States Steel's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.02%). Company insiders that own United States Steel stock include James E Bruno, Kevin Bradley, Michael H Mcgarry and Stephen J Girsky. View institutional ownership trends for United States Steel.

X stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Envestnet Asset Management Inc.. View insider buying and selling activity for United States Steel.

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One share of X stock can currently be purchased for approximately $6.81.

United States Steel has a market capitalization of $1.16 billion and generates $12.94 billion in revenue each year. The basic materials company earns $-630,000,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $0.09 on an earnings per share basis. United States Steel employs 27,500 workers across the globe.

The official website for United States Steel is www.ussteel.com.

United States Steel's mailing address is 600 GRANT STREET, PITTSBURGH PA, 15219. The basic materials company can be reached via phone at 412-433-1121 or via email at [email protected]