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 Ltd78.0
2TSTH.BKTata Steel (Thailand) Public Company Limited76.6
32S.BK2S Metal Public Company Limited72.3
4IZS.WARIzostal SA68.2
5WELCORP.NSEWelspun Corp Limited67.7
6PAP.BKPacific Pipe Public Company Limited66.5
75094.KLSECSC Steel Holdings Bhd66.5
8002756.SHEYongxing Special Stainless Steel Co Ltd66.0
98140.HKBosa Technology Holdings Ltd65.9
10603995.SHGZhejiang Yongjin Metal Technology Co Ltd64.9
11002478.SHEJiangsu Changbao Steeltube Co Ltd64.8
120341.KLSEColform Group Berhad64.8
13601686.SHGTianjin You Fa Steel Pipe Group Stock Co Ltd64.4
14600507.SHGFangda Special Steel Technology Co Ltd64.3
15NMDC.NSENMDC Limited64.3
16300881.SHEShengtak New Material Co Ltd63.9
17JCQ.PAJacquet Metal Service SA63.8
18FRD.USFriedman Industries Inc. Common Stock63.2
199873.KLSEPrestar Resources Bhd62.8
20KAMDHENU.NSEKamdhenu Limited62.3

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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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