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 declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, August 1st. Shareholders 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 yield of 1.61%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, August 13th. View United States Steel's Dividend History.

United States Steel declared that its board has initiated a share buyback plan on Thursday, November 1st 2018, which authorizes the company to buyback $300,000,000.00 in outstanding 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 plans are generally a sign that the company's management believes its stock is undervalued.

United States Steel Co. (NYSE:X) posted its earnings results on Thursday, August, 1st. The basic materials company reported $0.45 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.40 by $0.05. The basic materials company had revenue of $3.55 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $3.43 billion. United States Steel had a return on equity of 19.27% and a net margin of 6.95%. The business's quarterly revenue was down 1.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business 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 second quarter earnings guidance on Tuesday, June, 18th. The company provided EPS guidance of ~$0.40 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $0.54.

16 brokers have issued twelve-month price objectives for United States Steel's shares. Their predictions range from $6.00 to $35.00. On average, they anticipate United States Steel's stock price to reach $18.9421 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 52.4% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for United States Steel.

16 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for United States Steel in the last year. There are currently 5 sell ratings, 7 hold ratings and 4 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 negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog 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 coverage optimism score of -2.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave headlines about the basic materials company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near term. View News Stories for United States Steel.

United States Steel saw a increase in short interest in the month of July. As of July 15th, there was short interest totalling 33,217,900 shares, an increase of 29.1% from the June 15th total of 25,728,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 12,760,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.6 days. Approximately 19.4% of the company's shares 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), Timkensteel (TMST), Titan International (TWI), Universal Stainless & Alloy Products (USAP), Mechel PAO (MTL) and Ossen Innovation (OSN).

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United States Steel's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors 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, 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 Vanguard Group Inc., BlackRock Inc., Caisse DE Depot ET Placement DU Quebec, Acadian Asset Management LLC, Cibc World Markets Corp, Prudential Financial Inc., Alambic Investment Management L.P. and James Investment Research Inc.. 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 Eugene Sperling, Kevin Bradley, Murry Gerber 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 $12.43.

United States Steel has a market capitalization of $2.12 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]