NYSE:XUnited States Steel Stock Price, Forecast & News

United States Steel's stock was trading at $5.99 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, X stock has increased by 23.0% and is now trading at $7.37. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

16 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for United States Steel in the last year. There are currently 8 sell ratings, 5 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for United States Steel.

United States Steel is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, August 6th 2020. View our earnings forecast for United States Steel.

United States Steel Co. (NYSE:X) issued its earnings results on Thursday, April, 30th. The basic materials company reported ($0.73) EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of ($0.80) by $0.07. The basic materials company earned $2.75 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.79 billion. United States Steel had a negative return on equity of 4.63% and a negative net margin of 8.92%. The company's revenue was down 21.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the firm earned $0.47 earnings per share. View United States Steel's earnings history.

United States Steel declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, April 30th. Stockholders of record on Monday, May 11th will be paid a dividend of $0.01 per share on Wednesday, June 10th. This represents a $0.04 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.54%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, May 8th. View United States Steel's dividend history.

United States Steel announced that its Board of Directors has initiated a share repurchase 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 shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are often a sign that the company's board of directors believes its stock is undervalued.

United States Steel issued an update on its first quarter 2020 Pre-Market earnings guidance on Friday, March, 20th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of -0.8--0.8 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $-0.84.

16 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for United States Steel's shares. Their forecasts range from $4.00 to $12.64. On average, they anticipate United States Steel's stock price to reach $8.88 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 20.4% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for United States Steel.

News stories about X stock have been trending somewhat positive recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research group rates the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources. 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 daily sentiment score of 1.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave 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 effect on the company's share price in the near future. View the latest news aboutUnited States Steel.

United States Steel saw a drop in short interest in the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 54,110,000 shares, a drop of 15.5% from the April 30th total of 64,020,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 17,090,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.2 days. Currently, 32.3% of the company's shares are short sold. View United States Steel's Current Options Chain.

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

United States Steel's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (8.66%), State Street Corp (3.36%), Morgan Stanley (3.16%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.44%), Luminus Management LLC (1.16%) and Geode Capital Management LLC (1.15%). Company insiders that own United States Steel stock include James E Bruno, Kevin Bradley, Michael H Mcgarry, 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 BNP Paribas Arbitrage SA, BlackRock Inc., Retirement Systems of Alabama, State Street Corp, South Dakota Investment Council, Principal Financial Group Inc., CoreCommodity Management LLC, and First Trust Advisors LP. View insider buying and selling activity for United States Steel.

X stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Morgan Stanley, Luminus Management LLC, Two Sigma Advisers LP, Voloridge Investment Management LLC, Drexel Morgan & Co., Advisor Group Holdings Inc., Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, and HighTower Advisors LLC. Company insiders that have bought United States Steel stock in the last two years include Kevin Bradley, Michael H Mcgarry, and Stephen J Girsky. View insider buying and selling activity for United States Steel.

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One share of X stock can currently be purchased for approximately $7.37.

United States Steel has a market capitalization of $1.26 billion and generates $12.94 billion in revenue each year. The basic materials company earns $-630,000,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $0.09 on an earnings per share basis. United States Steel employs 27,500 workers across the globe.

The official website for United States Steel is 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]