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Cleveland-Cliffs

CLFNYSESteelCLEVELAND, US-OH, USMid capWebsite ↗
  • Russell 1000
  • MidCap 400

What Cleveland-Cliffs is doing, read from its filings, its own words and the news, with every figure dated and sourced. Not investment advice: no ratings, no price targets.

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The latest read

Computed from the data on Oct 22, 2026. Every figure links back to its source in the sections below.

  • Revenue over the four quarters to September 30, 2026: $20.1 billion, up 7.8% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capital expenditure) over the four quarters to September 30, 2026: −$0.48 billion.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Capital expenditure over the four quarters to September 30, 2026: $0.60 billion, down 4.8% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Long-term debt issued in the fiscal year to December 31, 2025: $1.98 billion.SEC EDGAR filings (10-K)
  • Latest earnings call or results release (October 19, 2026): sentiment 0.75 on a −1 to +1 scale (confident, opportunity-framed), confidence 0.85 of 1.Palanor Discourse
  • Latest annual report (filed February 9, 2026): 0 risk factors added, 0 removed.Risk Factor Changes (10-K Item 1A)
  • Insiders were net sellers in Q2 2026: $2.9 million on the open market.SEC Form 4
  • 584 institutional managers reported a position at June 30, 2026 (+15 on the quarter before).SEC Form 13F
  • H-1B filings certified in Q2 2026: 3 (3 a year earlier).U.S. Department of Labor (OFLC)
  • Headlines in the last 30 days: 7, of which 3 read positive and 1 negative.Palanor headline tone

Risk events (12 months): 1 — latest OSHA inspection, Sep 17, 2026 →

Company Posture covers S&P 500 companies.

No bond term sheets or tagged debt on file for Cleveland-Cliffs yet.

Charts

Live charts: each one redraws from today’s data and has an image link to paste into a document or slide.

Cash flow

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Cleveland-Cliffs: free cash flow, trailing twelve months

Operating cash flow minus capital expenditure, $ billions, from SEC filings

−$0.5BData 23 days ago
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
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Cleveland-Cliffs: operating cash flow and capital expenditure

Trailing twelve months, $ billions, from SEC filings

Data 23 days ago
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
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Cleveland-Cliffs: revenue, trailing twelve months

$ billions, from SEC filings

$20.1BData 23 days ago
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

Capital returned and raised

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Cleveland-Cliffs: share buybacks by fiscal year

Cash paid to repurchase common stock, $ billions, from the 10-K

$0.00BData to Dec 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
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Cleveland-Cliffs: debt issued and repaid by fiscal year

Long-term debt, $ billions, from the 10-K

Data to Dec 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
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Cleveland-Cliffs: debt maturity schedule, latest annual report

Scheduled repayments of long-term debt principal by year from the fiscal year end, $ billions, from the 10-K

Data to Dec 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
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Cleveland-Cliffs: debt due within a year and cash

At each balance-sheet date, $ billions, from SEC filings

Data 23 days ago
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
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Cleveland-Cliffs: interest coverage

Operating income ÷ interest expense, trailing twelve months, from SEC filings

−0.5Data 23 days ago
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

What the company says

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Cleveland-Cliffs: guidance raised minus lowered

Guidance Ledger statements by quarter

−2.0Data to Dec 2025
ImageDataGuidance Ledger by Palanor · source: SEC EDGAR
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Cleveland-Cliffs: earnings call sentiment

Palanor Discourse score per call, −1 to +1

0.75Data 4 days ago
ImageDataPalanor calculation
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Cleveland-Cliffs: earnings call confidence

Palanor Discourse score per call, 0 to 1

0.85Data 4 days ago
ImageDataPalanor calculation
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Cleveland-Cliffs: risk factors added per annual report

New Item 1A risk factors in each 10-K

0.0Data to Feb 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
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Cleveland-Cliffs: average net selling price per net ton of steel products

KPI Ledger, as reported in the company's results releases, $ billions

0.00Data 23 days ago
ImageDataKPI Ledger by Palanor · source: SEC EDGAR
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Cleveland-Cliffs: steel shipments

KPI Ledger, as reported in the company's results releases, count

4.2MData 23 days ago
ImageDataKPI Ledger by Palanor · source: SEC EDGAR

Hiring and ownership

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Cleveland-Cliffs: H-1B filings certified

Labor Condition Applications by quarter received

3.0Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification disclosure data, dol.gov
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Cleveland-Cliffs: insider net buying

Open-market purchases minus sales by officers and directors, $ millions, by quarter

−$2.9MData to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
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Cleveland-Cliffs: institutional holders

Managers reporting a position on Form 13F, by quarter

584.0Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

News

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Cleveland-Cliffs: headline tone

Net share of positive headlines, trailing 28 days, −1 to +1

0.29Data 6 days ago
ImagePalanor calculation from news headlines (tone words only)

In the news

Headlines that name Cleveland-Cliffs, with the publisher and a link. The tone is read from each headline’s own words, never from a summary of the article.

30 days
7 headlines
43% positive · 14% negative
90 days
7 headlines
43% positive · 14% negative

Filings and records

The last two years of notable 8-Ks, offerings, annual reports, federal awards, lobbying reports, patents and other public records, newest first.

  1. Oct 20, 2026Patent
  2. Oct 19, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (CLEVELAND-CLIFFS INC.)third_quarter 2026 · $0.6 million
  3. Oct 19, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (CONTINENTAL STRATEGY, LLC)third_quarter 2026 · $0.2 million
  4. Oct 13, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (THE WESSEL GROUP INCORPORATED)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  5. Oct 6, 2026Patent
  6. Sep 17, 2026Risk event
  7. Jul 28, 2026Patent
  8. Jul 24, 20268-K
  9. Jul 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (CLEVELAND-CLIFFS INC.)second_quarter 2026 · $0.6 million
  10. Jul 19, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (CONTINENTAL STRATEGY, LLC)second_quarter 2026 · $0.2 million
  11. Jul 17, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (THE WESSEL GROUP INCORPORATED)second_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  12. Jul 14, 2026Patent
  13. Jun 30, 2026Patent
  14. May 20, 20268-K
  15. Apr 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (CLEVELAND-CLIFFS INC.)first_quarter 2026 · $0.6 million
  16. Apr 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (CLEVELAND-CLIFFS INC.)first_quarter 2026 · $0.6 million
  17. Feb 23, 20268-K
  18. Feb 9, 202610-K
    Annual report (10-K)0 risk factors added, 0 removed
  19. Nov 12, 20258-K
  20. Oct 10, 20258-K
  21. Sep 8, 20258-K
  22. May 21, 20258-K
  23. Mar 20, 2025Risk event
  24. Feb 25, 202510-K
    Annual report (10-K)1 risk factors added, 0 removed
  25. Feb 6, 20258-K
  26. Jan 3, 20258-K
  27. Dec 18, 2024Risk event
  28. Nov 1, 20248-K
  29. Oct 22, 20248-K
  30. Feb 8, 202410-K
    Annual report (10-K)0 risk factors added, 1 removed

Peers

Companies in the same industry in the S&P 500, Russell 1000 or MidCap 400, closest in revenue first. Trailing twelve months, from SEC filings.

CompanyRevenueFree cash flowThrough
Steel Dynamics STLD$20.5B$1.0BJun 30, 2026
Reliance, Inc. RS$14.8B$0.6BMar 31, 2026
Nucor Corp. NUE$36.1B$1.6BJul 4, 2026
Carpenter Technology Corporation CRS$3.1B$0.4BJun 30, 2026
Corteva CTVA$17.8B$0.6BJun 30, 2026
Amcor AMCR$23.5B$1.2BJun 30, 2026
Ecolab ECL$16.8B$1.9BJun 30, 2026
International Paper IP$24.2B$0.5BJun 30, 2026

Identity

SEC CIK
764065
Wikidata
Q5133094

Built from SEC EDGAR filings (public domain), the Guidance and KPI Ledgers, Palanor Discourse, U.S. Department of Labor filings, USPTO, USAspending and Senate lobbying records, and rights-checked news headlines. Updated nightly; this page was built Oct 22, 2026. How the Dossier is built

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