Basic Materials
Live Price
Offline$9.95
-7.53% today
1Y Change
+60.24%
Window
Jun 27, 2025 → Jun 22, 2026
Coverage: 246 bars · Jun 27, 2025 → Jun 22, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. (CLF) is a Basic Materials stock with a market cap of $6.07B. The stock last traded around $9.95 and up 60.2% across the available one-year price window (Jun 27, 2025 → Jun 22, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of -3.0%, EPS growth of -91.1%, a dividend yield of 0.0%. What stands out right now is revenue -3.0%, EPS -91.1%, free cash flow -73.4% with operating margin -6.4% and ROIC -5.0%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at price/sales 0.3. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a turnaround or cyclical reset than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines CLF price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Basic Materials peers on this page.
Benchmark Edge
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
CLF
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Normalized return
SPY
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
CLF Max Drawdown
-51.67%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Trailing 1Y
Uses the longest available daily history for CLF and SPY.
Financial profile
Profitability, balance sheet stamina, and cash efficiency drawn from the latest filings.
FY Revenue
$20.4B
-11.1% YoY
FY Net Income
$3.0B
+123.8% YoY
Free Cash Flow
$2.1B
+40.5% YoY
Revenue Growth
-3.0%
EPS Growth
-91.1%
Gross Margin
-2.8%
Net Margin
-6.4%
Income statement
USD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 18.6B | 19.2B | 22.0B | 23.0B | 20.4B |
| Gross Profit | -763M | 70M | 1.4B | 2.5B | 4.5B |
| Operating Income | -1.4B | -756M | 677M | 1.9B | 4.0B |
| EBITDA | -45M | 378M | 1.9B | 3.1B | 5.0B |
| Net Income | -1.5B | -754M | 399M | 1.3B | 3.0B |
| EPS (Diluted) | — | — | — | — | — |
Balance sheet
USD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | 57M | 54M | 198M | 26M | 48M |
| Total Assets | 20.0B | 20.9B | 17.5B | 18.8B | 19.0B |
| Total Liabilities | 13.7B | 14.1B | 9.4B | 10.7B | 13.2B |
| Shareholder Equity | 6.1B | 6.7B | 7.9B | 7.8B | 5.5B |
| Total Debt | 8.2B | 7.8B | 3.6B | 4.7B | 5.8B |
| Net Debt | 8.1B | 7.7B | 3.4B | 4.7B | 5.8B |
Cash flow positioning
Latest Full Year
Operating Cash Flow
2.8B
+14.9% YoY
Capital Expenditures
705M
+25.2% YoY
Free Cash Flow
2.1B
+40.5% YoY
Key ratios
Gross Margin
-2.8%
Operating Margin
-6.4%
Net Margin
-6.4%
ROE
-20.9%
Debt / Equity
1.33x
Next Step
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