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 announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, August 1st. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, August 14th will be paid a dividend of $0.05 per share on Tuesday, September 10th. This represents a $0.20 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.85%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, August 13th. View United States Steel's Dividend History.

United States Steel announced that its Board of Directors has initiated a stock buyback program on Thursday, November 1st 2018, which authorizes the company to buyback $300,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to purchase up to 6.7% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback programs are generally an indication that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

United States Steel Co. (NYSE:X) released its earnings results on Thursday, August, 1st. The basic materials company reported $0.45 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates 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%. United States Steel's revenue was down 1.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $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, November 7th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for United States Steel.

United States Steel updated its third quarter earnings guidance on Thursday, September, 19th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of ($0.35) for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $0.01.

18 analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for United States Steel's stock. Their forecasts range from $6.00 to $35.00. On average, they expect United States Steel's share price to reach $17.9460 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 66.0% 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, 7 hold ratings and 5 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 negative on Sunday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded 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 -1.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the basic materials company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for United States Steel.

United States Steel saw a increase in short interest in the month of August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totalling 45,238,300 shares, an increase of 35.2% from the July 31st total of 33,462,700 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 12,000,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 3.8 days. Currently, 26.8% 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), APERAM/SH N Y REGISTRY SH (APEMY), Commercial Metals (CMC), 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 a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (8.98%), Vanguard Group Inc. (8.77%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.35%), Morgan Stanley (1.35%), Prudential Financial Inc. (0.94%) and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (0.86%). 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 Vanguard Group Inc., BlackRock Inc., Caisse DE Depot ET Placement DU Quebec, Acadian Asset Management LLC, Hodges Capital Management Inc., Cibc World Markets Corp, Prudential Financial Inc. and Alambic Investment Management L.P.. View Insider Buying and Selling for United States Steel.

X stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Point72 Asset Management L.P., Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, AQR Capital Management LLC, Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC, Morgan Stanley, TB Alternative Assets Ltd. and Cubist Systematic Strategies LLC. 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 $10.81.

United States Steel has a market capitalization of $1.85 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]