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 paid a dividend of $0.05 per share on Monday, December 10th. This represents a $0.20 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.00%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, November 8th. View United States Steel's Dividend History.

United States Steel declared that its board has initiated a stock buyback program on Thursday, November 1st 2018, which allows the company to repurchase $300,000,000.00 in outstanding 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 a sign that the company's leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

United States Steel Co. (NYSE:X) announced its quarterly earnings data on Friday, November, 2nd. The basic materials company reported $1.79 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.73 by $0.06. The basic materials company earned $3.73 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $3.67 billion. United States Steel had a return on equity of 21.69% and a net margin of 5.01%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 14.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $0.92 EPS. 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 1 year target prices for United States Steel's stock. Their forecasts range from $22.00 to $69.00. On average, they expect United States Steel's stock price to reach $40.0714 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 100.2% 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, 6 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for United States Steel.

News stories about X stock have trended somewhat positive this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. InfoTrie rates the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. United States Steel earned a daily sentiment score of 1.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media coverage about the basic materials company a news buzz of 4.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next few days.

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), Commercial Metals (CMC), Carpenter Technology (CRS), USINAS SIDERURG/S (USNZY), AK Steel (AKS), SunCoke Energy (SXC), SunCoke Energy Partners (SXCP), Mechel PAO (MTL), Timkensteel (TMST), Titan International (TWI) and Universal Stainless & Alloy Products (USAP).

United States Steel's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (9.15%), Vanguard Group Inc (9.15%), BlackRock Inc. (8.93%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (2.78%), Luminus Management LLC (1.89%) and Amerigo Asset Management (1.86%). 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 Amerigo Asset Management, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Great Lakes Advisors LLC, Great Lakes Advisors LLC, Prudential Financial Inc., Mutual of America Capital Management LLC, Caxton Associates LP and TIAA CREF Investment Management LLC. Company insiders that have sold United States Steel company stock in the last year include Christine S Breves, Colleen M Darragh, 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 bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Pelham Capital Ltd., Luminus Management LLC, BlackRock Inc., Bridgewater Associates LP, Ashler Capital LLC, Marshall Wace LLP, Hodges Capital Management Inc. and Dimensional Fund Advisors LP. 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 $20.02.

United States Steel has a market capitalization of $3.55 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]