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Bluescope Steel Ltd (BSL.AU) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for BSL.AU, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 61/100 · S&P 500 fund at 75, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-10-06
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 98th percentile of the window, +5.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-10-06
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.74 · up 0.17 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-10-06
Who it is priced against Steel · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Steel

This name carries no Closelooknet score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against BSL.AU on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Bluescope Steel Ltd

BSL.AU in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
BlueScope Steel makes coated and painted flat steel used in building and construction, plus pipes, tubes, coils and bars, sold under brands such as Colorbond and Zincalume. It runs five regional segments covering Australia, North America, Asia and New Zealand, and also recycles scrap metal and develops industrial property. The company began as BHP Steel and is based in Melbourne.
Where it sits in the stack
BlueScope carries no seat in our index; it sits in the Basic Materials sector of the Closelooknet universe, within the Steel industry group, supplying coated steel to builders and manufacturers rather than to any AI hardware layer.
Who it is priced against
Closelooknet's peer group places it with other scored Basic Materials names, mostly gold and metals miners such as Barrick Mining, AngloGold Ashanti and Kinross Gold, grouped by sector rather than by product; the market more often compares it with steelmakers such as Nucor.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
It carries a Closelooknet score built from seven modules, strongest on valuation and weakest on quality; it holds no index seat, has no recorded mentions in the diary and no quotes on file.
What the diary watches
Whether demand from residential and non-residential building in its main markets holds up, since that flow feeds the coated and painted steel volumes behind the read.

Bluescope Steel Ltd (BSL.AU) trades on the AU exchange in Australia.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 9.69%, semi-annual · last 1.35 AUD on 2026-09-08

Dividends and capital return

What BSL.AU pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 3.02 AUD per share · a 9.69% yield on the 2026-10-06 close 3 distributions, paid twice a year 2026-10-06
  • Change on the year +571.3% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 0.45 AUD per share
  • Last distribution 1.35 AUD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-09-08
  • By calendar year 2025: 0.45 AUD (partial) · 2026: 3.02 AUD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-02-21

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-10-07

Quick answers

What is Bluescope Steel Ltd (BSL.AU)?

Bluescope Steel Ltd trades as BSL.AU on the AU exchange (Australia) in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-10-07.

Is BSL.AU in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — Bluescope Steel Ltd is tracked in the Closelooknet research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelooknet functional index as of 2026-10-07.

Where does BSL.AU trade against its moving averages?

Pullback inside an uptrend stack: Trades -1.1% vs the 50-day and +4.3% vs the 200-day average, 11.6% below the 52-week high and +62.9% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-10-06 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How does Bluescope Steel Ltd compare with its peers?

Against its peer group (Steel), Bluescope Steel Ltd (BSL.AU) sits 11.6% below its 52-week high, 1.1% below its 50-day average; Ternium SA ADR (TX) is 4.0% below, Aperam SA (APAM.AS) is 23.7% below, SSAB AB ser. B (SSABBH.HE) is 7.4% below. Put any of them next to BSL.AU in the chart grid (2×1 or 2×2) and the page lays the companies side by side: performance, trend, valuation, margins and our money-flow reading.

What does Bluescope Steel Ltd do?

BlueScope Steel makes coated and painted flat steel used in building and construction, plus pipes, tubes, coils and bars, sold under brands such as Colorbond and Zincalume. It runs five regional segments covering Australia, North America, Asia and New Zealand, and also recycles scrap metal and develops industrial property. The company began as BHP Steel and is based in Melbourne. Closelooknet's peer group places it with other scored Basic Materials names, mostly gold and metals miners such as Barrick Mining, AngloGold Ashanti and Kinross Gold, grouped by sector rather than by product; the market more often compares it with steelmakers such as Nucor.

Where does Bluescope Steel Ltd sit in the AI build-out?

BlueScope carries no seat in our index; it sits in the Basic Materials sector of the Closelooknet universe, within the Steel industry group, supplying coated steel to builders and manufacturers rather than to any AI hardware layer. It carries a Closelooknet score built from seven modules, strongest on valuation and weakest on quality; it holds no index seat, has no recorded mentions in the diary and no quotes on file.

Does Bluescope Steel Ltd pay a dividend?

Bluescope Steel Ltd has paid 3.02 AUD per share over the last twelve months, paid twice a year, a trailing yield of 9.69% on the 2026-10-06 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 1.35 AUD on 2026-09-08. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for BSL.AU, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelooknet universe

then Steel, then Basic Materials. Scored names rank on their Closelooknet score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.