
Nucor Corporation
NUENYSEBasic MaterialsSteel
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$243.63
+$3.15 · +1.31%
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Company profile
Company websiteNucor Corporation is a prominent producer and distributor of steel and diverse steel-related products. Within its Steel Mills division, the company manufactures a comprehensive range of steel goods. These include various sheet steel types like hot-rolled, cold-rolled, and galvanized, alongside plate steel. It also produces structural components such as wide-flange beams, beam blanks, H-piling, and sheet piling. Furthermore, this segment supplies bar steel products, encompassing blooms, billets, concrete reinforcing bars, merchant bars, and specialized bar quality items. Beyond manufacturing, Nucor's steel mills are involved in steel trading and the distribution of rebar. Its clientele primarily consists of steel service centers, fabricators, and manufacturers across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The Steel Products segment provides an array of manufactured steel goods, such as hollow structural section tubing, electrical conduits, steel racking, joists and girders, steel decks, and fabricated concrete reinforcing steel. It also supplies cold finished steel, fasteners, complete metal building systems, insulated metal panels, steel grating, expanded metal, and various wire and wire mesh products. These offerings are largely directed towards nonresidential construction projects. Additionally, this segment manages a piling distribution operation. Nucor's Raw Materials division is responsible for producing direct reduced iron (DRI). It also acts as a broker for ferrous and nonferrous metals, pig iron, hot briquetted iron (HBI), and direct reduced iron (DRI). This segment supplies ferro-alloys, processes both ferrous and nonferrous scrap metals, and undertakes natural gas drilling activities. Its ferrous scrap is supplied to electric arc furnace steel mills and foundries for their manufacturing processes. Meanwhile, nonferrous scrap metal is sold to aluminum can manufacturers, secondary aluminum smelters, steel mills, various other processors, and direct consumers of diverse nonferrous metals. The corporation caters to a wide range of industries including agriculture, automotive, construction, energy and transmission, oil and gas, heavy equipment, infrastructure, and transportation. Sales are conducted via an in-house sales team and through the company's internal distribution and trading enterprises. Established in 1958, Nucor Corporation has its headquarters situated in Charlotte, North Carolina.
- Industry
- Steel
- Sector
- Basic Materials
- Headquarters
- US
- CEO
- Leon J. Topalian
- Listed since
- Mar 17, 1980
- Employees
- 33,000
Market position
Day range
Current $243.63
52-week range
Current $243.63
- Open
- $245.08
- Previous close
- $240.48
- Volume
- 1.88M
- 1.18× average
- Average volume
- 1.59M
- Average daily volume
- Market cap
- 55.48B USD
- Beta
- 1.89
- Market reference 1
- 50-day average
- $248.15
- -1.82% below average
- 200-day average
- $200.61
- +21.44% above average
Financials
Financial snapshot
Latest / TTMValuation & yield
- Enterprise value
- 42.49B USD
- P/E (TTM)
- 19.41×
- P/B (TTM)
- 2.51×
- P/S (TTM)
- 1.54×
- EV / EBITDA
- 10.35×
- Earnings yield
- 4.63%
- Free cash flow yield
- -0.50%
- Dividend yield
- 0.92%
Profitability & efficiency
- Gross margin
- 15.47%
- Operating margin
- 11.47%
- Net margin
- 7.99%
- Return on equity
- 8.33%
- Return on assets
- 4.97%
- Return on invested capital
- 6.74%
Financial health
- Debt / equity
- 0.32×
- Current ratio
- 2.94×
- Altman Z-score
- 5.3
- Piotroski F-score
- 8 of 9
Financial statements
Margin trends
Profitability as a percentage of reported revenue.
Income trends
Revenue
Operating income
Net income
| Metric (USD) | FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | FY2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 32.49B USD | 30.73B USD | 34.71B USD | 41.51B USD | 36.48B USD |
| Cost of goods sold | 28.62B USD | 26.63B USD | 26.9B USD | 29.01B USD | 25.46B USD |
| Gross profit | 3.88B USD | 4.1B USD | 7.82B USD | 12.5B USD | 11.03B USD |
| Selling, general, and administrative | 1.22B USD | 1.12B USD | 1.59B USD | 2B USD | 1.71B USD |
| Operating expenses | 1.22B USD | 1.12B USD | 1.59B USD | 2B USD | 1.71B USD |
| Interest income | 111M USD | 258M USD | 276M USD | 48.7M USD | 4.27M USD |
| Interest expense | 170M USD | 228M USD | 246M USD | 218.91M USD | 163.12M USD |
| Depreciation and amortization | 1.48B USD | 1.36B USD | 1.17B USD | 1.06B USD | 864.56M USD |
| Operating income | 2.66B USD | 2.98B USD | 6.23B USD | 10.51B USD | 9.32B USD |
| Net income | 1.74B USD | 2.03B USD | 4.52B USD | 7.61B USD | 6.83B USD |
Company facts updated Aug 24, 2026.
Earnings
- EPS beat rate
- 73%
- 8 beats, 3 misses, 0 met estimates
- Average EPS surprise
- +8.63%
- 11 comparable reports
- Latest EPS result
- 4.84
- Estimate 4.46 · Beat by 8.52%
EPS: actual versus estimate
Recent quarterly results
Revenue: actual versus estimate
Recent quarterly results
Analyst ratings
Third-party consensus; not a GoAI recommendation.
Analyst price target
Average target
$267.5
9.80% upsideRating distribution
32 ratingsRecent analyst actions
NUE news
Corporate actions
Annual dividends per share
Cash distributions grouped by calendar year; partial years are marked.
$2.21
2025 complete year+28.9% since 2021
2026 partial: $1.12
$1.715
2,021
$2.01
2,022
$2.07
2,023
$2.17
2,024
$2.21
2,025
$1.12
2,026*
* Partial calendar year in the available dividend history.
Corporate action history
| Action | Ex-dividend date | Details | Record date | Payment date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Dividend | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.56Quarterly | Jun 30, 2026 | Aug 11, 2026 |
Dividend | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.56Quarterly | Mar 31, 2026 | May 11, 2026 |
Dividend | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.56Quarterly | Dec 31, 2025 | Feb 11, 2026 |
Dividend | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.55Quarterly | Sep 30, 2025 | Nov 10, 2025 |
Dividend | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.55Quarterly | Jun 30, 2025 | Aug 11, 2025 |
Dividend | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.55Quarterly | Mar 31, 2025 | May 12, 2025 |
Ex-dividend Jun 30, 2026
$0.56
Quarterly
Record Jun 30, 2026 · Payment Aug 11, 2026
Ex-dividend Mar 31, 2026
$0.56
Quarterly
Record Mar 31, 2026 · Payment May 11, 2026
Ex-dividend Dec 31, 2025
$0.56
Quarterly
Record Dec 31, 2025 · Payment Feb 11, 2026
Ex-dividend Sep 30, 2025
$0.55
Quarterly
Record Sep 30, 2025 · Payment Nov 10, 2025
Ex-dividend Jun 30, 2025
$0.55
Quarterly
Record Jun 30, 2025 · Payment Aug 11, 2025
Ex-dividend Mar 31, 2025
$0.55
Quarterly
Record Mar 31, 2025 · Payment May 12, 2025
NUE peers
ETFs holding NUE
Funds reporting this stock among their holdings, ordered by reported position size.
Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETFVTI1.87B0.08%2.3T USD0.03%$378.24+0.44%
Vanguard S&P 500 ETFVOO1.54B0.09%1.7T USD0.03%$703.71+0.39%
Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETFVO1.27B0.56%224.7B USD0.03%$82.97+0.53%
iShares Core S&P 500 ETFIVV738.11M0.08%891.84B USD0.03%$769.31+0.39%
State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETFSPY681.15M0.08%817.87B USD0.09%$765.72+0.41%
Vanguard Morningstar Value ETFVTV558.09M0.22%256.5B USD0.03%$226.4+0.54%
Global X - U.S. Infrastructure Development ETFPAVE427.97M3.08%13.86B USD0.47%$56.39+0.62%
Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap Value ETFVOE377.21M0.97%38.6B USD0.05%$208.64+0.35%
Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETFVTI- Market value
- 1.87B
- Weight
- 0.08%
- AUM
- 2.3T USD
- Expense ratio
- 0.03%
- Price / 1D
- $378.24+0.44%
Vanguard S&P 500 ETFVOO- Market value
- 1.54B
- Weight
- 0.09%
- AUM
- 1.7T USD
- Expense ratio
- 0.03%
- Price / 1D
- $703.71+0.39%
Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETFVO- Market value
- 1.27B
- Weight
- 0.56%
- AUM
- 224.7B USD
- Expense ratio
- 0.03%
- Price / 1D
- $82.97+0.53%
iShares Core S&P 500 ETFIVV- Market value
- 738.11M
- Weight
- 0.08%
- AUM
- 891.84B USD
- Expense ratio
- 0.03%
- Price / 1D
- $769.31+0.39%
State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETFSPY- Market value
- 681.15M
- Weight
- 0.08%
- AUM
- 817.87B USD
- Expense ratio
- 0.09%
- Price / 1D
- $765.72+0.41%
Vanguard Morningstar Value ETFVTV- Market value
- 558.09M
- Weight
- 0.22%
- AUM
- 256.5B USD
- Expense ratio
- 0.03%
- Price / 1D
- $226.4+0.54%
Global X - U.S. Infrastructure Development ETFPAVE- Market value
- 427.97M
- Weight
- 3.08%
- AUM
- 13.86B USD
- Expense ratio
- 0.47%
- Price / 1D
- $56.39+0.62%
Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap Value ETFVOE- Market value
- 377.21M
- Weight
- 0.97%
- AUM
- 38.6B USD
- Expense ratio
- 0.05%
- Price / 1D
- $208.64+0.35%
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