Effective section method (ESM) is widely used in the design of cold-formed steel structures. However, the influence of distortional buckling of members was hot considered. A new method for the load carrying capacity of cold-formed steel members, direct strength method (DSM), can effectively estimate the ultimate strength for local, distortional buckling and interactive buckling. However, it is not used for beam-columns. The stability behavior of C-shaped cold-formed members eccentrically compressed around the major axis was analyzed. The effects of Length of member, eccentricity and width-thickness ratio of webs, flanges and edge stiffeners on ultimate strength of members were examined in this study. A calculation method of ultimate strength was proposed based on the original DSM axial compression/bending formulas and the finite element analysis results.