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. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, February 13th will be paid a dividend of $0.05 per share on Friday, March 8th. This represents a $0.20 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.22%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, February 12th. View United States Steel's Dividend History.

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

United States Steel Co. (NYSE:X) released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, January, 30th. The basic materials company reported $1.82 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $1.83 by $0.01. The basic materials company had revenue of $3.69 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations 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 quarterly revenue was up 17.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $0.76 EPS. View United States Steel's Earnings History.

United States Steel is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, May 2nd 2019. View Earnings Estimates for United States Steel.

United States Steel will be holding an earnings conference call on Friday, May 3rd at 8:30 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

14 equities research analysts have issued 1-year price objectives for United States Steel's shares. Their predictions range from $6.00 to $35.00. On average, they expect United States Steel's share price to reach $22.6577 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 38.0% 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, 9 hold ratings and 3 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 been trending positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm identifies negative and positive news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. United States Steel earned a media sentiment score of 2.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the basic materials company a news buzz of 5.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next several days.

United States Steel saw a increase in short interest in March. As of March 29th, there was short interest totalling 17,310,327 shares, an increase of 22.2% from the March 15th total of 14,171,341 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 8,589,756 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.0 days. Currently, 10.1% 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 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), Universal Stainless & Alloy Products (USAP), Ossen Innovation (OSN) and China Precision Steel (CPSL).

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United States Steel's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Hodges Capital Management Inc. (0.50%), Retirement Systems of Alabama (0.13%), Prime Capital Investment Advisors LLC (0.08%), Pennsylvania Trust Co (0.05%), Pennsylvania Trust Co (0.05%) and Bell Rock Capital LLC (0.04%). 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., Retirement Systems of Alabama, Flagship Harbor Advisors LLC and Louisiana State Employees Retirement System. Company insiders that have sold United States Steel company stock in the last year include James E Bruno 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 Pennsylvania Trust Co, Pennsylvania Trust Co, Prime Capital Investment Advisors LLC, Sciencast Management LP, Virtu Financial LLC, Grassi Investment Management, NuWave Investment Management LLC and Beech Hill Advisors Inc.. 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 $16.42.

United States Steel has a market capitalization of $2.85 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.

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]