AK Steel Holding Corporation (AKS): Today's Featured Metals & Mining Winner
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China Shen Zhou Mining & Resources
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Solitario Exploration & Royalty
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), up 6.2%.
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AK Steel Holding Corporation, through its subsidiaries, produces flat-rolled carbon, stainless and electrical steels, and tubular products in the United States and internationally. AK Steel Holding Corporation has a market cap of $600.7 million and is part of the basic materials sector. The company has a P/E ratio of -0.6, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 34.3% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are three analysts that rate AK Steel Holding Corporation a buy, five analysts rate it a sell, and five rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates AK Steel Holding Corporation as a
. The company's weaknesses can be seen in multiple areas, such as its deteriorating net income, poor profit margins, generally disappointing historical performance in the stock itself and feeble growth in its earnings per share.
- You can view the full AK Steel Holding Ratings Report.
On the negative front,
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), down 20.9%,
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Timberline Resources Corporation
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), down 13.5%, and
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), down 9.5%, were all laggards within the metals & mining industry with
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