{"id":180673,"date":"2025-04-10T16:22:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T16:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/business\/finance\/why-u-s-steel-stock-slumped-today\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T16:22:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T16:22:05","slug":"why-u-s-steel-stock-slumped-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=180673","title":{"rendered":"Why U.S. Steel Stock Slumped Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Investors have two ways to win with this steelmaker.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In the middle of a trade war, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/terms\/t\/tariffs\/\">tariff threats<\/a> flying fast and furious, you might expect a big commodity company like <strong>United States Steel<\/strong> <span class=\"font-bold whitespace-nowrap\" data-id=\"206200\">(<a class=\"ticker-symbol\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/quote\/nyse\/x\/\">X<\/a><span class=\"text-red-900 ticker-change\"> -8.06%<\/span>)<\/span> to suffer serious damage.<\/p>\n<p>But it hasn&#8217;t. Being part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/stock-market\/market-sectors\/materials\/steel-stocks\/\">an industry that tariffs are intended to protect<\/a> has insulated the company from the worst of the market&#8217;s recent volatility, and as of Wednesday, U.S. Steel stock was trading at its highest share price of 2025, more than $45.<\/p>\n<p>But on Thursday, U.S. Steel stock took a tumble, trading down by 7.9% as of 12:11 p.m. ET. The reason for that slide wasn&#8217;t tariffs, but it was President Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n<h2>Trump on U.S. Steel<\/h2>\n<p>For more than a year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/2025\/02\/10\/why-cleveland-cliffs-stock-was-rising-today\/\" title=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/2025\/02\/10\/why-cleveland-cliffs-stock-was-rising-today\/ Shift+Click to open\">Japan&#8217;s Nippon Steel has been trying to buy U.S. Steel<\/a>. Trump doesn&#8217;t want this sale to happen, however, and on Wednesday, he reiterated his opposition to it: &#8220;We don&#8217;t want to see it go to Japan,&#8221; he said of U.S. Steel. Adding some confusion to the deal&#8217;s prospects, however, he also said that &#8220;we love Japan&#8221; and &#8220;we&#8217;re working with them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The statements seem contradictory, presenting a real will-they-or-won&#8217;t-they dilemma, as investors try to figure out what precisely the president wants to happen, and whether he will in the end permit Nippon Steel to buy U.S. Steel.<\/p>\n<h2>How investors should think about U.S. Steel stock<\/h2>\n<p>Nippon is reportedly offering $14 billion for U.S. Steel, which only has a market capitalization of $9.5 billion at present. If the acquisition is permitted to go through, it would yield shareholders a nearly 50% profit almost immediately.<\/p>\n<p>But what if the merger does not happen?<\/p>\n<p>Well, in that case, U.S. Steel would still benefit from President Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/research\/tariffs-commodity-prices\/\">tariffs on imported steel<\/a>, which will raise the cost of foreign steel here, and allow U.S. Steel to raise its own prices &#8212; and boost its own profits. U.S. Steel is already profitable without the tariffs, and trades at less than 25 times trailing earnings.<\/p>\n<p>Long story short, investors have two ways to win on U.S. Steel stock. It may be time to buy.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n            <span class=\"article-disclosure\"><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/author\/1297\/\">Rich Smith<\/a> has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/legal\/fool-disclosure-policy\/\">disclosure policy<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/span>\n          <\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investors have two ways to win with this steelmaker. In the middle of a trade war, with tariff threats flying fast and furious, you might expect a big commodity company like United States Steel (X -8.06%) to suffer serious damage. But it hasn&#8217;t. 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