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Company Profile: Steel Dynamics, Inc. (STLD)

STLD insider trades (13 months) →

$247.66 −1.69% vs. previous close · Market cap $35.22B

Today's multi-factor rank: 55 of 461 · see the ranking

Quant500 Scores
Momentum
7.0/10
Value
5.1/10
Growth
5.7/10
Quality
4.6/10
Multifactor
5.6/10

Market and Valuation

Price & Market

Prev Close Price:$251.91
Open:$253.13
Day's Low:$246.46
Day's High:$253.13
Bid / Ask:-
Market Cap:35.22B
Enterprise Value:39.25B

52-Week Range

52-Week Low:$150.03
52-Week High:$288.74
Current position in 52-week range
52w Low-52w High
50-Day Avg:$238.36
200-Day Avg:$224.25

Volume

Volume Today:807,082
Avg Volume (3m):1,061,992
Avg Volume (10d):1,109,460
52-Week Change:+66.15%
vs S&P 500, 52 weeks:-
Beta:1.44

Valuation Multiples

P/E (trailing):18.28

Diluted EPS for the last 12 months: the four quarters ended Sep 30, 2026, from the accounts filed with the SEC on Oct 23, 2026. The P/E is the price divided by that EPS.

P/E (forward):11.57
PEG Ratio:11.95
Price / Book:3.58
Price / Sales (TTM):1.59
EV / Revenue:1.77
EV / EBITDA:12.23

Dividends

Current yield:0.84%
Annual Dividend Rate:$2.12
Dividend Trailing:$2.09
Yield Trailing:0.83%
5-Year Avg Yield:1.29%
Payout Ratio:15.44%
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):22.22B
Gross Profit:3.53B
EBITDA:3.21B
Net Income (TTM):1.96B
Rev Growth (YoY):+34.80%
Earnings Growth (YoY):+92.00%
Quarterly earnings growth (YoY):+87.30%

Margins

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

Per Share

EPS Trailing (TTM):$13.55

Diluted EPS for the last 12 months: the four quarters ended Sep 30, 2026, from the accounts filed with the SEC on Oct 23, 2026. The P/E is the price divided by that EPS.

EPS Forward (Est.):$21.41
Revenue Per Share:$153.93
Cash Per Share:-
Book Value:$69.09
Last Dividend:-
Ex-Dividend Date:-
Last Split:-

Balance Sheet & Liquidity

Total cash:928.56M
Total Debt:4.41B
Net Debt (Debt - Cash):3.48B
Debt / Equity:45.12%
Current Ratio:3.15
Quick Ratio:1.32

Cash Flows

Operating Cash Flow:1.69B
Free Cash Flow (FCF):429.93M
FCF Yield (FCF / Market Cap):-
Enterprise Value:39.25B
EV / Revenue:1.77
EV / EBITDA:12.23

Profitability

ROE (Return on Equity):20.81%
ROA (Return on Assets):9.45%
P/E (trailing):18.28
P/E (forward):11.57
Price / Book:3.58
PEG Ratio:11.95
52-Week Change:+66.15%
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):$13.55

Diluted EPS for the last 12 months: the four quarters ended Sep 30, 2026, from the accounts filed with the SEC on Oct 23, 2026. The P/E is the price divided by that EPS.

EPS Forward (Est.):$21.41
P/E (forward):11.57
PEG Ratio:11.95

Growth and Margins

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

Per Share

Revenue Per Share:$153.93
Cash Per Share:-
Book Value:$69.09

Cash Flows (TTM)

Free Cash Flow:429.93M
Operating Cash Flow:1.69B
EBITDA:3.21B
Total Revenue (TTM):22.22B
Net Income (TTM):1.96B
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:142,217,487
Float (free shares):132,438,613
Short interest (shares):3,886,454
Short % of float:-
Short Ratio (days to cover):4.14
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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Steel Dynamics, Inc. (STLD) SEC filings: 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K

Direct links to financial reports filed with the SEC.

Type Date Official link
10-Q2026-10-23View filing ↗
8-K2026-10-20View filing ↗
8-K2026-10-19View filing ↗
8-K2026-09-18View filing ↗
8-K/A2026-08-18View filing ↗
8-K2026-08-14View filing ↗
8-K2026-08-04View filing ↗
10-Q2026-07-28View filing ↗
8-K2026-07-21View filing ↗
8-K2026-06-18View filing ↗

Company and Executive Profile

Steel Dynamics, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a steel producer and metal recycler in the United States. It operates through four segments: Steel Operations, Metals Recycling Operations, Steel Fabrication Operations, and Aluminum Operations. The Steel Operations segment offers hot rolled, cold rolled, and coated steel products; parallel flange beams and channel sections, large unequal leg angles, and reinforcing steel bars, standard strength carbon, intermediate alloy hardness, and premium grade rail products; engineered special-bar-quality products, merchant-bar-quality products, and other engineered round steel bars; channels, angles, flats, merchant rounds, and reinforcing steel bars; and specialty shapes and light structural steel products. This segment also engages in turning, polishing, straightening, chamfering, precision saw-cutting, and heat treating of bar products. Its products are used in construction, automotive, manufacturing, transportation, heavy and agricultural equipment, energy, and pipe and tube markets. The Metals Recycling Operations segment is involved in the ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal processing, transportation, marketing, brokerage, and scrap management services. Its ferrous products include heavy melting steel, busheling, bundled scrap, shredded scrap, steel turnings, and cast-iron products; and nonferrous products comprise aluminum, brass, copper, stainless steel, and other nonferrous metals. The Steel Fabrication Operations segment produces steel non-residential building components, such as steel joists, joist girders, and steel deck products for non-residential steel fabricators, metal building companies, general construction contractors, developers, property owners, brokers, and governmental entities. The Aluminum Operations segment offers recycled aluminum flat rolled products. The company also exports its products. Steel Dynamics, Inc. was incorporated in 1993 and is headquartered in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

General Information

Headquarters:United States
City:Fort Wayne
Employees:14,400
Industry:Steel
Website:-

Key Executives

NameTitleAgeTotal pay
Mr. Mark D. MillettCo-Founder, Chairman & CEO656.96M
Ms. Theresa E. WaglerExecutive VP, CFO, Company Secretary & Director553.87M
Mr. Barry T. SchneiderExecutive VP & CTO564.21M
Mr. Christopher A. GrahamExecutive VP & COO of Flat Rolled Steel Operations612.17M
Mr. David A. LipschitzInvestor Relations Director--
Mr. James S. AndersonExecutive VP & COO of Construction Products Operations64-
Mr. Jeff HansenSenior Vice President of Environmental Sustainability & Energy--
Mr. Miguel AlvarezExecutive VP and COO of Aluminum Flat Rolled Products & Metals Recycling Operations57-

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Steel Dynamics, Inc. (STLD): Quantitative Analysis

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

So far in 2026, STLD has returned +47.1% against +11.4% for the S&P 500 (SPY): total return, dividends included on both sides, from Dec 31, 2025 to Nov 3, 2026.

STLD ranks 55 of 461 on today's multifactor score, and 5 of the 19 Basic Materials companies that score. Its strongest factor is momentum (Z 1.23, ranked 51 of 494); its weakest is quality (Z -0.26, ranked 302 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
Multifactor0.37055 of 461
Momentum1.22551 of 494 ↑16
Value0.075177 of 489
Quality-0.258302 of 468
Growth0.44078 of 489

Market data

MetricValue
Price$247.66
Market Cap35.22B
P/E18.28
Revenue (last 12 months)22.22B
Price / book3.58
Book value per share$69.09
52-week range$150.03 – $288.74
Dividend yield0.84%
Beta1.44
Average volume1,061,992
Shares outstanding142.22M
Short interest (% of float)3.44% (as of Oct 15, 2026)

STLD earnings dates and times, quarter by quarter →

What are STLD insiders doing? 128 transactions filed with the SEC, of them 6 sells, the last one on Oct 9, 2026 →

STLD latest SEC filings

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

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Frequently asked questions about Steel Dynamics (STLD)

When does Steel Dynamics report earnings?

Steel Dynamics has no announced date in the Nasdaq public calendar checked (Nov 3, 2026 to Dec 7, 2026). STLD earnings dates and times, quarter by quarter →

What is Steel Dynamics's P/E ratio?

Steel Dynamics's P/E (price over earnings per share for the last twelve months) is 18.3 at the Nov 3, 2026 close. That EPS is the 12-month diluted figure from the SEC, the four quarters ended Sep 30, 2026. The median of the 17 Basic Materials companies with a P/E is 18.3, and the S&P 500's, 23.5: Steel Dynamics sits right at its sector median. Basic Materials stocks, company by company →

Where does Steel Dynamics rank on Quant500?

In the Nov 3, 2026 multi-factor ranking, Steel Dynamics ranks 55 of 461, and 5 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 Steel Dynamics insiders bought or sold shares?

SEC Form 4 shows no open-market purchase of Steel Dynamics shares from August 2025 through Nov 3, 2026. The latest sale was on Jun 5, 2026, by an officer, for $2.7M. In total, from August 2025 through Nov 3, 2026: 0 purchases and 6 sales by directors, officers and large shareholders. All STLD insider trades →

Does Steel Dynamics pay a dividend?

Yes. Its dividend yield is 0.84% at the Nov 3, 2026 close (annual dividend of $2.12 per share). The latest recorded ex-dividend date is Sep 30, 2026.

What sector is Steel Dynamics in, and which index?

Steel Dynamics 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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