United States Steel Corp. (NYSE: X) on Friday, plunged -1.80% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $39.50. Within the past 52 weeks, X’s price has moved between $26.92 and $50.20.
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Annual sales at Basic Materials sector company grew by 13.03% over the past five years. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of -51.08%. With a float of $222.13 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $223.67 million.
Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 21803 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 8.91%, operating margin of 2.57%, and the pretax margin is 3.7%.
United States Steel Corp. (X) Insider and Institutional Ownership
Observing investor behavior towards Steel industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of United States Steel Corp. is 1.26%, while institutional ownership is 88.11%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Sep 18 ’24, was worth 131,250. Before that another transaction happened on Dec 18 ’23, when Company’s Pres. & CEO sold 252,458 for $50.01, making the entire transaction worth $12,626,182. This insider now owns 581,609 shares in total.
United States Steel Corp. (X) Latest Financial update
As on 6/30/2024, Multinational firm has announced its last quarter scores, in which it reported 1.4 earnings per share (EPS) for the period topping the consensus outlook (set at 1.1) by 0.3. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.29 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -51.08% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 8.00% during the next five years compared to -10.66% drop over the previous five years of trading.
United States Steel Corp. (NYSE: X) Trading Performance Indicators
United States Steel Corp. (X) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 1.14 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.52.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 2.24, a number that is poised to hit 0.41 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 2.78 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of United States Steel Corp. (X)
United States Steel Corp. (NYSE: X) saw its 5-day average volume 2.71 million, a negative change from its year-to-date volume of 4.37 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 81.91%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.11.
During the past 100 days, United States Steel Corp.’s (X) raw stochastic average was set at 74.85%, which indicates a significant decrease from 75.31% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 23.07% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 47.48% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $36.53, while its 200-day Moving Average is $39.98. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $39.58 in the near term. At $40.37, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $41.08. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $38.08, it is likely to go to the next support level at $37.37. The third support level lies at $36.58 if the price breaches the second support level.
United States Steel Corp. (NYSE: X) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 8.73 billion based on 224,850K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 18,053 M and income totals 895,000 K. The company made 4,118 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 183,000 K in sales during its previous quarter.
