Stock · NUE · Basic Materials
United States · Large Cap · listed since 1983 · Revenue 12 mo. $38.8B
Price as of 11/06/2026
Nucor Corporation engages in the manufacture and sale of steel and steel products.
Nucor Corporation engages in the manufacture and sale of steel and steel products. The company operates in three segments: Steel Mills, Steel Products, and Raw Materials. The Steel Mills segment produces hot-rolled, cold-rolled, and galvanized sheet steel products; plate steel products; wide-flange beams, beam blanks, and H-piling and sheet piling structural steel products; and bar steel products, such as blooms, billets, concrete reinforcing and merchant bars, and engineered special bar quality products. This segment sells its products to steel service centers, fabricators, and manufacturers in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, as well as engages in the steel trading and rebar distribution businesses. The Steel Products segment offers steel joists and joist girders, steel decks, and galvanized torque tubes for use in solar arrays, hollow structural section steel tubing, electrical conduit, fabricated concrete reinforcing steel, cold finished steel, steel fasteners, steel grating and expanded metal, wire and wire mesh, metal building systems, insulated metal panels, steel racking, overhead doors, and utility towers and structures for communications and energy transmission. This segment is also involved in the piling distribution business. The Raw Materials segment produces direct reduced iron (DRI); brokers ferrous and nonferrous metals, pig iron, hot briquetted iron, and DRI; supplies ferro-alloys; processes ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal; and engages in the natural gas production and industrial gas business. This segment sells its ferrous scrap to electric arc furnace steel mills and foundries for manufacturing process; and nonferrous scrap metal to aluminum can producers, secondary aluminum smelters, steel mills and other processors, and consumers of various nonferrous metals. Nucor Corporation was founded in 1905 and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Summary
51.2 of 100
Mean of the six area values. Each area value is the mean of the stock's ranks among the companies in its sector. 50 is the middle of the sector, not a share of companies beaten.
Analysis
What the price requires
Price to operating cash flow 12.7×, above its usual range.
Middle half of 19 quarters: 4.8× to 8.6×, median 6.4×.
Measures only against its own past, not against what the company is worth. Price as of 11/06/2026.
with respect to the priced-in expectation
No indication in the stored figures.
with respect to the priced-in expectation
Since the last quarter
Q2 → Q3 2026
1 more unchanged: Shares outstanding
Derivation
Each area value is the average of its metrics' ranks within the sector (0 to 100, 50 is the middle). For metrics where lower is better, the rank is mirrored. The overall value is the average of the area values.
Price as of 11/06/2026.
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on equity | 8.33% | 10.66% | Rank 42 |
| Return on capital (Greenblatt) | 11.53% | 14.75% | Rank 39 |
| EBIT margin | 8.18% | 15.82% | Rank 30 |
| FCF margin | −0.58% | 8.70% | Rank 9 |
| Gross margin | 11.93% | 34.18% | Rank 8 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, 1 year | 5.73% | 4.25% | Rank 54 |
| Earnings growth, 3 years per year | −36.07% | 0.28% | Rank 11 |
| Earnings growth, 5 years per year | 26.11% | 13.36% | Rank 75 |
| Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings) | 10.53% | 9.35% | Rank 54 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings yield | 3.08% | 4.98% | Rank 31 |
| FCF yield | −0.34% | 3.94% | Rank 10 |
| EV/saleslower is better | 1.82 | 2.36 | Rank 63 |
| EV/EBITlower is better | 22.28 | 14.61 | Rank 26 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share price, 1 year | 59.74% | 8.75% | Rank 97 |
| Share price, 6 months | 8.16% | −1.37% | Rank 74 |
| Share price, 3 months | −5.01% | −1.16% | Rank 36 |
| Distance from 52-week high | −11.77% | −21.97% | Rank 75 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accruals (Sloan)lower is better | 5.03% | 0.63% | Rank 26 |
| Change in share countlower is better | −3.19% | −0.01% | Rank 86 |
| Dividend streak in years | 16 | 3 | Rank 90 |
| Price reaction to results, market-adjusted | 4.56% | 0.05% | Rank 88 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity ratio | 59.64% | 54.83% | Rank 62 |
| Net debt/EBITDAlower is better | 1.05 | 1.01 | Rank 48 |
| Debt to equitylower is better | 0.34 | 0.37 | Rank 53 |
| Volatility, 1 yearlower is better | 31.13% | 37.23% | Rank 68 |
Ten years in figures
| Year | Revenue, $B | EBIT margin | FCF | Shares | Net debt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 16.2 | 8.8% | $1.1B | 320M | $2.3B |
| 2017 | 20.3 | 9.3% | $606.8M | 321M | $2.8B |
| 2018 | 25.1 | 13.7% | $1.4B | 317M | $2.9B |
| 2019 | 22.6 | 8.7% | $1.3B | 306M | $2.8B |
| 2020 | 20.1 | 8.0% | $1.2B | 304M | $2.7B |
| 2021 | 36.5 | 25.5% | $4.6B | 293M | $3.3B |
| 2022 | 41.5 | 25.3% | $8.1B | 263M | $2.4B |
| 2023 | 34.7 | 18.0% | $4.9B | 250M | $459.0M |
| 2024 | 30.7 | 9.7% | $806.0M | 239M | $3.4B |
| 2025 | 32.5 | 8.2% | −$188.0M | 231M | $4.9B |
1 of 7 StockScorer Score rules met · How the score is built
Nucor Corp mainly meets criteria in the Momentum category. Result from 18 strategies checked.
Nucor Corp is rated here with the StockScorer Score strategy, the flagship rule set. It compares return and cash-flow metrics with the median of the company's own sector and checks growth and price trend.
1 of 7 rules met
1 of 11 points
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Selected fundamental metrics for Nucor Corp.
| Metric | Stock | Sector |
|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio | 32.4 | 19.6 |
| P/B ratio | 2.7 | 2.1 |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 8.3% | 10.7% |
| Equity ratio | 59.6% | 54.8% |
| Debt-to-equity (D/E) | 0.34 | 0.37 |
| Dividend yield | 0.9% | 2.1% |
How comparable stocks in the same sector score in the StockScorer model.
| Symbol | Company | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| NUE | Nucor Corpthis page | |
| STLD | Steel Dynamics Inc | Low1.8 |
| RS | Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co | locked |
| MT.AS | ArcelorMittal SA | locked |
| JSWSTEEL.NS | JSW Steel Limited | locked |
| TATASTEEL.NS | Tata Steel Limited | locked |
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