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 Wednesday, January 30th. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, February 13th will be given a dividend of $0.05 per share on Friday, March 8th. This represents a $0.20 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.87%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, February 12th. View United States Steel's Dividend History.

United States Steel declared that its board has approved a stock buyback plan 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 reacquire up to 6.7% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are generally an indication that the company's board believes its shares are undervalued.

United States Steel Co. (NYSE:X) issued its earnings results on Wednesday, January, 30th. The basic materials company reported $1.82 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.83 by $0.01. The basic materials company earned $3.69 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $3.77 billion. United States Steel had a net margin of 7.86% and a return on equity of 25.39%. United States Steel's revenue for the quarter was up 17.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $0.76 earnings per share. View United States Steel's Earnings History.

United States Steel is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, April 25th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for United States Steel.

15 analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for United States Steel's shares. Their forecasts range from $6.00 to $69.00. On average, they expect United States Steel's share price to reach $31.8250 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 38.9% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for United States Steel.

15 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for United States Steel in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 11 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for United States Steel.

Press coverage about X stock has trended positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm 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 positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. United States Steel earned a media sentiment score of 2.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news articles about the basic materials company a news buzz of 6.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is somewhat likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near future.

United States Steel saw a increase in short interest during the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totalling 14,499,680 shares, an increase of 22.4% from the December 31st total of 11,846,281 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 8,872,581 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.6 days. Currently, 8.3% 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 Partners (SXCP), SunCoke Energy (SXC), Timkensteel (TMST), Mechel PAO (MTL), 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 BlackRock Inc. (8.87%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (2.67%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.29%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.04%), Northern Trust Corp (0.77%) and Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund (0.73%). 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 Hodges Capital Management Inc., Prudential Financial Inc., Dimensional Fund Advisors LP, Millennium Management LLC, BlackRock Inc., Prime Capital Investment Advisors LLC, First Trust Advisors LP and Raymond James Financial Services Advisors Inc.. Company insiders that have sold United States Steel company stock in the last year include Christine S Breves, 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 Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund, Two Sigma Advisers LP, State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D, KBC Group NV, Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, LSV Asset Management and Gotham Asset Management LLC. 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 $22.92.

United States Steel has a market capitalization of $4.06 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 29,200 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]