United States Steel Corp (NYSE:X) has a beta value of 1.79 and has seen 0.77 million shares traded in the recent trading session. The company, currently valued at $9.16B, closed the recent trade at $40.47 per share which meant it gained $1.46 on the day or 3.73% during that session. The X stock price is -14.11% off its 52-week high price of $46.18 and 33.48% above the 52-week low of $26.92. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 9.99 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 6.74 million shares.
The consensus among analysts is that United States Steel Corp (X) is Buy stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 2.45. 1 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 1 rate it as Overweight. 0 out of 8 have rated it as a Hold, with 6 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight. The expected earnings per share for the stock is -0.47.
United States Steel Corp (NYSE:X) trade information
Sporting 3.73% in the green today, the stock has traded in the red over the last five days, with the highest price hit on recent trading when the X stock price touched $40.47 or saw a rise of 4.55%. Year-to-date, United States Steel Corp shares have moved 19.05%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change -1.09%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of United States Steel Corp (NYSE:X) have changed -1.06%. Short interest in the company has seen 15.97 million shares shorted with days to cover at 2.69.
Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $43, which means that the shares’ value could jump 5.88% from the levels at last check today.. The projected low price target is $43.0 while the price target rests at a high of $43.0. In that case, then, we find that the latest price level in today’s session is -6.25% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock gain -6.25% from the levels at last check today..
United States Steel Corp (X) estimates and forecasts
The company’s shares have gained 7.05% over the past 6 months. Revenue growth from the last financial year stood is estimated to be 7.29%.
4 analysts offering their estimates for the company have set an average revenue estimate of 3.56B for the current quarter. 3 have an estimated revenue figure of 4.23B for the next ending quarter. Year-ago sales stood 4.16B and 4.12B respectively for this quarter and the next, and analysts expect sales will shrink by -14.45% for the current quarter and 7.29% for the next.
Earnings growth for 2025 is a modest -8.55% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 21.46%.
X Dividends
United States Steel Corp is expected to release its next earnings report on 2025-Jan-29 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue. The forward dividend is 0.20 at a share yield of 0.49%. The company’s dividend yield has gone up over the past 12 months, with a 5 Year Average Dividend Yield of 0.62%.
United States Steel Corp (NYSE:X)’s Major holders
Insiders own 1.19% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 96.93% with a share float percentage of 98.10%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with United States Steel Corp having a total of 647.0 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are BLACKROCK INC. with over 23.41 million shares worth more than $885.07 million. As of 2024-06-30, BLACKROCK INC. held 10.4114% of shares outstanding.
The other major institutional holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC, with the holding of over 20.44 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $772.59 million and represent 9.0883% of shares outstanding.
Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund . As of Mar 31, 2025 , the former fund manager holds about 3.25% shares in the company for having 7.35 shares of worth $296.03 million while later fund manager owns 6.36 shares of worth $256.17 million as of Dec 31, 2024 , which makes it owner of about 2.81% of company’s outstanding stock.
