In the present paper, the steady load-carrying capacity and the dynamic stiffness and damping coefficients of wide secant-shaped slider bearings using an electrically conducting fluid have been analyzed. By the application of externally transverse magnetic fields, an analytic-form solution for the magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) secant-shaped slider bearing characteristics is obtained. In order to provide more information in slider bearing characteristics, the results are compared with the MHD inclined slider bearing. In addition, a numerical example for the MHD secant-shaped slider bearing characteristics is also included in Tables for industrial application.