Best Steel Stocks for 2026

Steel producers earn the spread between iron-ore, scrap costs, and finished-steel pricing tied to industrial output; Health leverage gates names with no safety margin.

Steel producers earn the spread between iron-ore and scrap input costs and finished-steel pricing, which moves with industrial-production cycles plus trade-policy events. Composite scoring uses normalised mid-cycle EBITDA in the Valuation pillar and the Health pillar (net debt through the trough) gates names with no margin of safety.

Data as of (updated daily)

Top 20 Steel stocks by composite score

#TickerNameComposite
1002545.SHEQingdao East Steel Tower Stock Co Ltd77.8
2TSTH.BKTata Steel (Thailand) Public Company Limited74.4
32S.BK2S Metal Public Company Limited70.8
45094.KLSECSC Steel Holdings Bhd69.5
5WELCORP.NSEWelspun Corp Limited67.7
68140.HKBosa Technology Holdings Ltd67.3
7600507.SHGFangda Special Steel Technology Co Ltd67.3
8002478.SHEJiangsu Changbao Steeltube Co Ltd67.2
9002318.SHEZhejiang JIULI Hi-tech Metals Co Ltd66.8
105072.KLSEHiap Teck Venture Bhd66.6
11601686.SHGTianjin You Fa Steel Pipe Group Stock Co Ltd65.9
12032560.KOHwang-Kum Stee65.7
13ART.JSEArgent65.4
14300881.SHEShengtak New Material Co Ltd65.4
150341.KLSEColform Group Berhad65.0
16NMDC.NSENMDC Limited64.1
17IZS.WARIzostal SA63.8
189873.KLSEPrestar Resources Bhd63.5
19002756.SHEYongxing Special Stainless Steel Co Ltd63.5
200313.KLSEBWYS Group Berhad63.5

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Methodology: How we score stocks. Data refreshed nightly around 03:30 ET. This page lists the top 20 by composite score; use the screener for the full ranked list.

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