NYSE:X - United States Steel Stock Price, News, & Analysis

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

United States Steel announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, November 1st. Stockholders of record on Friday, November 9th will be given a dividend of $0.05 per share on Monday, December 10th. This represents a $0.20 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.99%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, November 8th. View United States Steel's Dividend History.

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

United States Steel Co. (NYSE:X) posted its quarterly earnings results on Friday, November, 2nd. The basic materials company reported $1.79 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.73 by $0.06. The basic materials company had revenue of $3.73 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $3.67 billion. United States Steel had a net margin of 5.01% and a return on equity of 21.69%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 14.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm earned $0.92 earnings per share. View United States Steel's Earnings History.

United States Steel is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, January 30th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for United States Steel.

14 equities research analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for United States Steel's stock. Their predictions range from $22.00 to $69.00. On average, they anticipate United States Steel's share price to reach $37.2857 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 84.7% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for United States Steel.

14 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for United States Steel in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 8 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for United States Steel.

Media stories about X stock have trended somewhat positive recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. United States Steel earned a news sentiment score of 1.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media stories about the basic materials company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term.

United States Steel saw a drop in short interest during the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 11,846,281 shares, a drop of 29.3% from the December 14th total of 16,759,219 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 8,439,561 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.4 days. Approximately 6.8% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View United States Steel's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to United States Steel include Tenaris (TS), EVRAZ (EVRZF), Steel Dynamics (STLD), Ternium (TX), APERAM/SH N Y REGISTRY SH (APEMY), Carpenter Technology (CRS), Commercial Metals (CMC), USINAS SIDERURG/S (USNZY), AK Steel (AKS), SunCoke Energy (SXC), SunCoke Energy Partners (SXCP), Timkensteel (TMST), Mechel PAO (MTL), Titan International (TWI) and Universal Stainless & Alloy Products (USAP).

United States Steel's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Retirement Systems of Alabama (0.13%) and Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (0.03%). Company insiders that own United States Steel stock include Christine S Breves, Colleen M Darragh, David B Burritt, David J Rintoul, David Sutherland, Eugene Sperling, James E Bruno, Kevin Bradley, Murry Gerber, Paul Anthony Mascarenas, Pipasu H Soni, Richard Fruehauf, Sara A Greenstein 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 Louisiana State Employees Retirement System. Company insiders that have sold United States Steel company stock in the last year include Christine S Breves, David B Burritt, David J Rintoul, James E Bruno, Paul Anthony Mascarenas, Pipasu H Soni, Richard Fruehauf and Sara A Greenstein. View Insider Buying and Selling for United States Steel.

X stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Retirement Systems of Alabama. Company insiders that have bought United States Steel stock in the last two years include David Sutherland, Eugene Sperling, Kevin Bradley, Murry Gerber, Paul Anthony Mascarenas and Stephen J Girsky. View Insider Buying and Selling for United States Steel.

Shares of X 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 X stock can currently be purchased for approximately $20.19.

United States Steel has a market capitalization of $3.73 billion and generates $12.25 billion in revenue each year. The basic materials company earns $387 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.94 on an earnings per share basis. United States Steel employs 29,200 workers across the globe.

The official website for United States Steel is http://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]