CLF Cleveland-Cliffsdata gap · 65% coveragelimited data
Materials · Steel · close $12.12 (2026-10-16) · latest quarter in EDGAR: 2026-06-30
Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF) has a ThetaGrade House Rating of 29/100 (grade F), ranking #23 of 57 in Materials. Its strongest pillars are valuation (98) and growth (29); its weakest is cash flow (3). Data gap: 5 factors without usable data, so 65% of the method weight is covered. TTM revenue growth is 4.0% and operating margin -4.2%.
Data as of .
Data gap
No usable data for: Consensus score (1–5), 90-day net rating shift, EPS growth YoY (TTM), 4Q gross-margin change, P/E (inverted). Data gap: no usable data for this factor, so it is left out and its weight is shared among the factors that do have data (no value is imputed). 65% of the full method weight is backed by data.
Analyst sentiment
weight 7.5% · no data · —| Consensus score (1–5) (0.0%)data gap | derived | — |
| 90-day net rating shift (0.0%)data gap | derived | — |
Growth
weight 30.83% (→33.3%) · 29| Revenue growth YoY (TTM) (22.2%) | 4.0% | 28 |
| EPS growth YoY (TTM) (0.0%)data gap | — | — |
| Revenue acceleration (11.1%) | -0.4% | 32 |
Profitability
weight 18.5% (→20.0%) · 12| Operating margin (20.0%) | -4.2% | 12 |
| 4Q gross-margin change (0.0%)data gap | — | — |
Balance sheet
weight 18.5% (→20.0%) · 17| Net debt / EBITDA (10.7%) | 17.49× | 4 |
| Current ratio (5.3%) | 1.89 | 49 |
| Interest coverage (4.0%) | -1.74× | 11 |
Cash flow
weight 12.33% (→13.3%) · 3| FCF margin (6.7%) | -5.5% | 6 |
| FCF yield (6.7%) | -14.8% | 0 |
Valuation
weight 12.33% (→13.3%) · 98| P/E (inverted) (0.0%)data gap | — | — |
| EV/Sales (inverted) (13.3%) | 0.76× | 98 |
Technicals (EOD)
| RSI(14) | 49.8 |
| EMA 9 / 21 | 12.33 / 12.19 |
| 200-day SMA | 11.33 |
| Volume vs 20d avg | 1.40× |
| 20-day return | -5.0% |
Exit-rule monitor
- EXITRating break: House Rating below 60
- EXITBalance-sheet stress: net debt/EBITDA above 4×
- EXITBalance-sheet stress: negative free cash flow (latest FY)
Data source per metric (SEC XBRL tag or derivation): Revenue: Revenues · Operating income: OperatingIncomeLoss · Interest expense: InterestPaidNet · D&A: DepreciationDepletionAndAmortization · EPS: EarningsPerShareDiluted · Market cap: SEC shares (dei EntityCommonStockSharesOutstanding (cover page)) × EOD close.
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FAQ
- What is CLF's House Rating?
- CLF scores 29 out of 100 (grade F) as of 2026-10-16, ranking #23 of 57 Materials stocks we cover.
- What do analysts say about CLF?
- We do not have enough analyst-sentiment data to score this stock.
- When does CLF report earnings next?
- We do not have a reliable estimate for CLF's next earnings date (irregular SEC filing history); a rough window is 2026-09-28 to 2026-11-09. Check the company's investor-relations page.
- Is CLF a buy?
- ThetaGrade does not give personal advice. The House Rating is an educational, rules-based summary of public data; see the methodology for how it is built.
Sources: SEC EDGAR filings (fetched 2026-10-18), Finnhub recommendation trends, Massive EOD prices. Scores are sector percentiles; a factor without usable data is a data gap: it is left out and the remaining weights are renormalized (nothing is imputed). Educational only. Methodology