The History of United States Steel Stock

U.S. Steel (NYSE: X) is one of the world's oldest companies. Founded in 1901, it was known simply as "The Corporation". Thanks to its long history as one of the United States' premier industrial manufacturing operators, there's no shortage of historic information available to help investors make a sound decision on this stock. Its operations take basic materials such as iron ore and use them to produce steel for the global economy. For this reason, US Steel's stock is correlated with economic growth. To wit, its stock experienced one of its strongest performance periods from 2005-2008, only to come back down to Earth in the Financial Crisis.