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

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

United States Steel declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, August 1st. Investors of record on Wednesday, August 14th will be given a dividend of $0.05 per share on Tuesday, September 10th. This represents a $0.20 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.87%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, August 13th. View United States Steel's Dividend History.

United States Steel declared that its Board of Directors has initiated a stock repurchase 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 management believes its stock is undervalued.

United States Steel Co. (NYSE:X) issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, August, 1st. The basic materials company reported $0.45 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.40 by $0.05. The basic materials company earned $3.55 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $3.43 billion. United States Steel had a net margin of 6.95% and a return on equity of 19.27%. The business's revenue for the quarter was down 1.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the company posted $1.46 earnings per share. View United States Steel's Earnings History.

United States Steel is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, October 31st 2019. View Earnings Estimates for United States Steel.

United States Steel will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, October 31st at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

United States Steel updated its third quarter 2019 earnings guidance on Thursday, October, 10th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $-0.55--0.49 for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $3.04-3.075 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $3.02 billion.

18 equities research analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for United States Steel's stock. Their predictions range from $6.00 to $30.00. On average, they expect United States Steel's stock price to reach $16.55 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 54.3% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for United States Steel.

18 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for United States Steel in the last year. There are currently 6 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.

News articles about X stock have trended somewhat negative on Saturday, InfoTrie reports. The research group rates the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public 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 -1.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the basic materials company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near future. View News Stories for United States Steel.

United States Steel saw a decrease in short interest during the month of September. As of September 15th, there was short interest totalling 47,860,000 shares, a decrease of 7.5% from the August 15th total of 51,730,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 12,200,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 3.9 days. Approximately 28.3% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View United States Steel's Current Options Chain.

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

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United States Steel's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Smith Graham & Co. Investment Advisors LP (0.17%), Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI (0.14%), Exane Derivatives (0.04%), Pacer Advisors Inc. (0.04%), Wedbush Securities Inc. (0.03%) and State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.02%). Company insiders that own United States Steel stock include Christine S Breves, Colleen M Darragh, David B Burritt, David J Rintoul, James E Bruno, Kevin Bradley, 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 Pacer Advisors Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for United States Steel.

X stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI, Exane Derivatives, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, SeaCrest Wealth Management LLC, NuWave Investment Management LLC, Wiley BROS. Aintree Capital LLC, Wiley BROS. Aintree Capital LLC and Wedbush Securities Inc.. Company insiders that have bought United States Steel stock in the last two years include Kevin Bradley 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of X stock can currently be purchased for approximately $10.72.

United States Steel has a market capitalization of $1.83 billion and generates $14.18 billion in revenue each year. The basic materials company earns $1.12 billion in net income (profit) each year or $5.36 on an earnings per share basis. United States Steel employs 29,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About United States Steel.

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]