United States Steel Earnings not as bad as expectedU.S. Steel (NYSE:X) +6.2% after-hours after reporting a smaller than expected Q4 loss and saying it expects improving results this year following Q1.
Q4 revenue fell 23% Y/Y to $2.82B from $3.69B; flat-rolled shipments fell 8% to 2.52M net tons at an average realized price of $699/ton vs. $823/ton in the prior-year quarter, and tubular shipments slid 10% to 193K tons at an average realize price of $1,298/ton vs. $1,488/ton a year earlier.
But U.S. Steel expects Q1 will be "the trough for the year due to the normal seasonality of our mining operations and lower shipments in Flat-rolled as the company prepares for the April blast furnace outage at Gary Works."
United States Steel Corp. engages in the manufacturing and selling of steel products. It operates through the following business segments: Flat-Rolled Products, U.S. Steel Europe, and Tubular Products. The Flat-Rolled Products segment includes managing steel plants and production facilities that manufactures steel slabs, rounds, strip mill plates, sheets, tin mill, iron ore, and coke. The U.S. Steel Europe segment offers producing and marketsing strip mill plates, spiral welded pipe, heating radiators, refractory ceramic materials. The Tubular Products segment involves in manufacturing and trading seamless and electric resistance welded steel casing and tubing. line pipe, and mechanical tubing. The company was founded in 1901 by Andrew Carnegie, John Pierpont Morgan, Charles Michael Schwab and Elbert Henry Gary and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.