Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, steel producer United States Steel
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at U.S. Steel's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
U.S. Steel facts
| Headquarters (founded) | Pittsburgh (1901) |
| Market Cap | $3.9 billion |
| Industry | Steel |
| Trailing-12-Month Revenue | $19.4 billion |
| Management | Chairman/CEO John Surma Jr. CFO Gretchen Haggerty |
| Return on Equity (average, past 3 years) | (9.1%) |
| Cash/Debt | $270.0 million / $3.9 billion |
| Dividend Yield | 0.7% |
| Competitors |
AK Steel ArcelorMittal Nucor |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 93% of the 2,119 members who have rated U.S. Steel believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward.
This past fall, one of those bulls, pugnaciously, succinctly summed up the outperform argument:
Steel companies in the U.S. in particular are making a comeback after being annihilated. International players like [ArcelorMittal] are still in free-fall over the European debt crisis. However, U.S. is breaking out of the bottom of it's October price. As far as I know, though i haven't researched it too carefully, we will still use the steel to construct buildings until some time into the science fiction future.
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