United States Steel Corp. (NYSE:X) does about 4.72M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 2066804 shares change hands in Monday trading. The company now has a market cap of 9.13B USD. Its current market price is $40.82, marking a decrease of -1.23% compared to the previous close of $41.33. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $50.20 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $20.40.
United States Steel Corp. (X) has a 20-day trading average at $40.88 and the current price is -18.69% off the 52-week high compared with 100.10% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $43.89 and its 200-day simple moving average is $36.78. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 2.87%, which decreases to 2.49% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 42.16 to suggest the stock is neutral.
The consensus objective for the share price is $47.28, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 13.66% over the period.
The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on April 09, 2024 when Wolfe Research upgraded the stock to “Outperform” and issued a price target of $46. Morgan Stanley downgraded the stock to “Equal-Weight” from Overweight on February 15, 2024 at a price target of $40-$51. JP Morgan resumed its price target at $52-$47.
United States Steel Corp. (X) stock is up 0.67% over the week and 6.69% over the past month. Its price is -16.09% year-to-date and 55.33% over the past year.
To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 13.66 percent from here.
The company has a return on investment of 5.89% and return on equity of 8.42%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 11.71 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 12.58. The beta has a value of 2.04. Price to book ratio is 0.83 and price to sales ratio is 0.51.
