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Company Profile: Nucor Corporation (NUE)

NUE insider trades (13 months) →

$273.53 −1.48% vs. previous close · Market cap $62.06B

Today's multi-factor rank: 23 of 461 · see the ranking

Quant500 Scores
Momentum
8.2/10
Value
5.1/10
Growth
6.3/10
Quality
4.5/10
Multifactor
6.0/10

Market and Valuation

Price & Market

Prev Close Price:$277.65
Open:$277.12
Day's Low:$271.62
Day's High:$277.34
Bid / Ask:-
Market Cap:62.06B
Enterprise Value:67.59B

52-Week Range

52-Week Low:$140.93
52-Week High:$287.70
Current position in 52-week range
52w Low-52w High
50-Day Avg:$254.47
200-Day Avg:$224.51

Volume

Volume Today:1,400,245
Avg Volume (3m):1,351,584
Avg Volume (10d):1,584,920
52-Week Change:+92.42%
vs S&P 500, 52 weeks:-
Beta:1.82

Valuation Multiples

P/E (trailing):17.42

12-month EPS and P/E from the market data provider (Yahoo Finance), not from the SEC: the latest quarter with EPS at the SEC ended Jul 4, 2026, more than 120 days ago.

P/E (forward):12.69
PEG Ratio:5.21
Price / Book:2.71
Price / Sales (TTM):1.60
EV / Revenue:1.74
EV / EBITDA:10.10

Dividends

Current yield:0.81%
Annual Dividend Rate:$2.24
Dividend Trailing:$2.24
Yield Trailing:0.81%
5-Year Avg Yield:1.31%
Payout Ratio:17.78%
Last Ex-Dividend Date:-

Valuation Context

P/E vs sector (indicative)

Most Recent Quarter:-
Fiscal Year (Next):-

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Financial Statements TTM (Trailing 12 Months)

Income Statement

Total Revenue (TTM):38.83B
Gross Profit:6.75B
EBITDA:6.70B
Net Income (TTM):3.59B
Rev Growth (YoY):+32.00%
Earnings Growth (YoY):+120.50%
Quarterly earnings growth (YoY):+117.30%

Margins

Gross Margin:-
EBITDA Margin:-
Operating Margin:-
Net Margin:-

Per Share

EPS Trailing (TTM):$15.70

12-month EPS and P/E from the market data provider (Yahoo Finance), not from the SEC: the latest quarter with EPS at the SEC ended Jul 4, 2026, more than 120 days ago.

EPS Forward (Est.):$21.56
Revenue Per Share:$170.14
Cash Per Share:-
Book Value:$100.76
Last Dividend:-
Ex-Dividend Date:-
Last Split:-

Balance Sheet & Liquidity

Total cash:3.64B
Total Debt:7.09B
Net Debt (Debt - Cash):3.45B
Debt / Equity:29.44%
Current Ratio:2.46
Quick Ratio:1.36

Cash Flows

Operating Cash Flow:5.32B
Free Cash Flow (FCF):1.54B
FCF Yield (FCF / Market Cap):-
Enterprise Value:67.59B
EV / Revenue:1.74
EV / EBITDA:10.10

Profitability

ROE (Return on Equity):17.58%
ROA (Return on Assets):8.82%
P/E (trailing):17.42
P/E (forward):12.69
Price / Book:2.71
PEG Ratio:5.21
52-Week Change:+92.42%
S&P 500 change, 52 weeks:+11.37%

Historical Evolution (Last 4 Years)

Income Statement

Balance Sheet

Cash Flow

EPS and Earnings Per Share

Key EPS Metrics

EPS Trailing (TTM):$15.70

12-month EPS and P/E from the market data provider (Yahoo Finance), not from the SEC: the latest quarter with EPS at the SEC ended Jul 4, 2026, more than 120 days ago.

EPS Forward (Est.):$21.56
P/E (forward):12.69
PEG Ratio:5.21

Growth and Margins

Earnings Growth YoY:-
Quarterly Earnings Growth YoY:-
Rev Growth YoY:-
Net Margin:-
Gross Margin:-
EBITDA Margin:-

Per Share

Revenue Per Share:$170.14
Cash Per Share:-
Book Value:$100.76

Cash Flows (TTM)

Free Cash Flow:1.54B
Operating Cash Flow:5.32B
EBITDA:6.70B
Total Revenue (TTM):38.83B
Net Income (TTM):3.59B
Fiscal Year (Last):-

EPS Surprise History - Last 4 Quarters

Actual vs. Analyst Estimates · Green = beat expectations · Red = missed

Quarter Period Actual EPS Estimated EPS Difference Surprise % Currency

Ownership Structure

Ownership Distribution

% Insiders:-
% Institutional:-
% Inst. (of Float):-
No. of Institutions:-
Visual distribution
InsidersInstitutionalFree Float

Shares & Short Interest

Shares Outstanding:226,875,676
Float (free shares):222,983,624
Short interest (shares):4,868,073
Short % of float:-
Short Ratio (days to cover):3.86
Short interest, prior month:-
Short Interest Date:-

Governance Score (1=Best, 10=Worst)

Overall risk:-
Audit Risk:-
Board risk:-
Compensation Risk:-
Shareholder rights risk:-

Top Institutional Holders

Position Change: ▲ Increased · ▼ Reduced · = Unchanged

Organization Report Date % Shares No. Shares Value (USD) Change %

Top Mutual Funds

Position Change: ▲ Increased ▼ Decreased = Unchanged

Fund Report Date % Shares No. Shares Value (USD) Change %

Recent Insider Trades

Executive / Insider Title Date Action Shares

Options Chain

CALLS

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PUTS

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Nucor Corporation (NUE) SEC filings: 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K

Direct links to financial reports filed with the SEC.

Type Date Official link
8-K2026-10-26View filing ↗
S-3ASR2026-08-21View filing ↗
10-Q2026-08-12View filing ↗
8-K2026-07-27View filing ↗
8-K/A2026-06-22View filing ↗
8-K/A2026-06-02View filing ↗
SD2026-05-29View filing ↗
8-K2026-05-19View filing ↗
10-Q2026-05-13View filing ↗
8-K2026-04-27View filing ↗

Company and Executive Profile

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.

General Information

Headquarters:United States
City:Charlotte
Employees:33,000
Industry:Steel
Website:-

Key Executives

NameTitleAgeTotal pay
Mr. Leon J. TopalianChairman of the Board & CEO574.05M
Mr. Stephen D. LaxtonPresident & COO542.84M
Mr. K. Rex QueryExecutive Vice President of Strategy592.51M
Mr. John L. SullivanExecutive VP, CFO & Treasurer51-
Chris JacobiDirector of Investor Relations--
Mr. Douglas R. WilnerPresident of Corporate Legal Affairs & General Counsel--
Ms. Elizabeth BledsoePresident of Human Resources & Talent52-
Mr. D. Chad UtermarkExecutive Vice President of New Markets & Innovation562.56M

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Nucor Corporation (NUE): Quantitative Analysis

Nucor Corporation (NUE) — Basic Materials — Steel. NUE is in the S&P 500 today. Model factor scores and market data, recalculated every trading day.

So far in 2026, NUE has returned +68.7% against +11.4% for the S&P 500 (SPY): total return, dividends included on both sides, from Dec 31, 2025 to Nov 3, 2026.

NUE ranks 23 of 461 on today's multifactor score, and 1 of the 19 Basic Materials companies that score. Its strongest factor is momentum (Z 1.90, ranked 19 of 494); its weakest is quality (Z -0.29, ranked 315 of 468). Each factor ranks only the companies with data for it, and the multifactor score only those with all four: that is why the totals differ.

Factor scores

The Z-Score is how many standard deviations the company sits from the index average: 0 is average, positive is better than average, negative is worse.

FactorZ-ScoreRank
Multifactor0.60923 of 461 ↑2
Momentum1.90219 of 494 ↑11
Value0.066181 of 489
Quality-0.291315 of 468
Growth0.75849 of 489

Market data

MetricValue
Price$273.53
Market Cap62.06B
P/E17.42
Revenue (last 12 months)38.83B
Price / book2.71
Book value per share$100.76
52-week range$140.93 – $287.70
Dividend yield0.81%
Beta1.82
Average volume1,351,584
Shares outstanding226.88M
Short interest (% of float)2.85% (as of Oct 15, 2026)

When does NUE report earnings? 12 of its last 12, after the close →

What are NUE insiders doing? 98 transactions filed with the SEC, of them 28 sells, the last one on Oct 29, 2026 →

NUE latest SEC filings

Filing dates on EDGAR, the SEC's public registry. All NUE filings on EDGAR.

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Frequently asked questions about Nucor (NUE)

When does Nucor report earnings?

Nucor has no announced date in the Nasdaq public calendar checked (Nov 3, 2026 to Dec 7, 2026). Of its last 12 earnings announcements: 12 after the close (SEC filings through Oct 26, 2026). NUE earnings dates and times, quarter by quarter →

What is Nucor's P/E ratio?

Nucor's P/E (price over earnings per share for the last twelve months) is 17.4 at the Nov 3, 2026 close. That EPS is the 12-month figure from the market data provider (Yahoo Finance), not the SEC one. The median of the 17 Basic Materials companies with a P/E is 18.3, and the S&P 500's, 23.5: Nucor is below its sector median. Basic Materials stocks, company by company →

Where does Nucor rank on Quant500?

In the Nov 3, 2026 multi-factor ranking, Nucor ranks 23 of 461, and 1 of the 19 Basic Materials companies that score. The ranking orders S&P 500 companies by the average of four factors (momentum, value, quality and growth) and is recalculated every trading day. It is a model output, not investment advice. The full ranking → How it is calculated →

Have Nucor insiders bought or sold shares?

SEC Form 4 shows no open-market purchase of Nucor shares from August 2025 through Nov 3, 2026. The latest sale was on Oct 29, 2026, by an officer, for $3.2M. In total, from August 2025 through Nov 3, 2026: 0 purchases and 28 sales by directors, officers and large shareholders. All NUE insider trades →

Does Nucor pay a dividend?

Yes. Its dividend yield is 0.81% at the Nov 3, 2026 close (annual dividend of $2.24 per share). The latest recorded ex-dividend date is Sep 30, 2026.

What sector is Nucor in, and which index?

Nucor is classified in the Basic Materials sector (industry: Steel), per the data provider's classification (similar to GICS, not identical). It is in the S&P 500 today. It is one of the 20 S&P 500 companies in that sector. Basic Materials stocks →

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Data as of Nov 3, 2026. Source: point-in-time SEC fundamentals and closing prices. Method and formulas are on the home page.

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