Basic Materials
Nippon Steel Corporation(NISTF)
Live Price
Offline$3.50
+3.24% today
1Y Change
-79.95%
Window
Jun 23, 2025 → Jun 16, 2026
- Market Cap
- $2.99T
- Revenue Growth
- -1.9%
- EPS Growth
- -88.2%
- Dividend Yield
- 12.6%
Coverage: 247 bars · Jun 23, 2025 → Jun 16, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Nippon Steel Corporation (NISTF) is a Basic Materials stock with a market cap of $2.99T and listed on OTC. The stock last traded around $3.50 and down 79.9% across the available one-year price window (Jun 23, 2025 → Jun 16, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of -1.9%, EPS growth of -88.2%, a dividend yield of 12.6%. What stands out right now is revenue -1.9%, EPS -88.2%, free cash flow -33.7% with operating margin 0.6% and ROIC -0.4%. The dividend matters to the case here, with a current yield around 12.6%. 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 NISTF price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Basic Materials peers on this page.
Sector Context
How this name stacks up against nearby peers on first-pass metrics.
Revenue Growth
Near sector median
-1.9% vs 0.0% peer median
Operating Margin
Below sector median
+0.6% vs +10.5% peer median
What Changed This Quarter
Latest report context and the signals most likely to have changed the story.
The operating picture looks softer than before
Revenue is at -1.9% and EPS is at -88.2%, with operating margin around 0.6%.
Shareholder return is still part of the story
The stock is still offering a dividend yield around 12.6%, which matters if the thesis depends on income as much as growth.
Benchmark Comparison
Normalized Performance vs SPY
Compare this ticker against a broad index, growth benchmark, or sector ETF using a shared 1Y normalization window.
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Relative to SPY
NISTF Max Drawdown
-87.13%
Trailing 1Y
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Calendar-Year Returns
Uses the longest available daily history for NISTF and SPY.
Company Overview
Nippon Steel Corporation
Other OTC
Nippon Steel Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in steelmaking and steel fabrication, engineering and construction, chemicals and materials, and system solutions businesses in Japan and internationally. The company's steelmaking and steel fabrication business offers steel plates, sheets, and slags; bar and rod materials; structural steel; pipes and tubes; titanium and stainless products; and railway, automotive, and machinery parts for applications in automotive, energy, infrastructure, and consumer electronics markets. Its engineering and construction business cover the manufacture and sale of industrial machinery; equipment and steel structures; construction projects under contract; waste processing and recycling; and supply of electricity, gas, and heat. The company's chemicals and materials comprise the manufacture and sale of coal-based chemical products, petrochemicals, electronic materials, materials and components for semiconductors and electronic parts, carbon fiber and composite products, and products that utilize technologies for metal processing. Its system solutions business includes computer systems engineering and consulting services; and IT-enabled outsourcing and other services. The company was formerly known as Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation and changed its name to Nippon Steel Corporation in April 2019. Nippon Steel Corporation was founded in 1950 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
- Leadership
- Eiji Hashimoto
- IPO Date
- Apr 21, 2009
- Employees
- 113.6k
- Street Address
- 2-6-1, Marunouchi
- Mailing
- Tokyo, 100-8071
- Region
- Tokyo, JP
- Reporting Currency
- USD
- Investor Line
- 81 3 6867 4111
- Last Updated
- May 2, 2026
Key Fundamentals
Valuation, growth, profitability, and balance sheet signals.
Valuation
- P/E
- —
- EV/EBITDA
- 8.5
- Price/Sales
- 0.3
- Price/Book
- 0.6
Growth
- Revenue
- -1.9%
- EPS
- -88.2%
- Free Cash Flow
- -33.7%
Profitability
- Gross Margin
- 14.5%
- Operating Margin
- 0.6%
- Net Margin
- -0.6%
- ROE
- -1.1%
- ROIC
- -0.4%
Balance Sheet
- Debt/Equity
- 0.99
- Current Ratio
- 1.12
Earnings Reports
Latest News
Official Releases
Company announcements and filings-style updates.
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