Basic Materials
Nucor Corporation(NUE)
Live Price
Offline$244.93
+0.45% today
1Y Change
+90.18%
Window
Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 18, 2026
- Market Cap
- $51.49B
- Revenue Growth
- +5.7%
- EPS Growth
- -11.1%
- Dividend Yield
- 1.0%
Coverage: 247 bars ยท Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 18, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Nucor Corporation (NUE) is a Basic Materials stock with a market cap of $51.49B and listed on NYSE. The stock last traded around $244.93 and up 90.2% across the available one-year price window (Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 18, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +5.7%, EPS growth of -11.1%, a dividend yield of 1.0%. What stands out right now is revenue +5.7%, EPS -11.1%, free cash flow -123.3% with operating margin 10.0% and ROIC 8.6%. The dividend is present but secondary, with a yield around 1.0%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at P/E 22.2 and price/sales 1.5. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a turnaround or cyclical reset than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines NUE price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Basic Materials peers on this page.
Sector Context
How this name stacks up against nearby peers on first-pass metrics.
Revenue Growth
Above sector median
+5.7% vs 0.0% peer median
Operating Margin
Near sector median
+10.0% vs +10.5% peer median
What Changed This Quarter
Latest report context and the signals most likely to have changed the story.
Latest report is on the board
2026 was reported on Apr 27, 2026, but the surprise data is still limited.
The operating picture looks softer than before
Revenue is at +5.7% and EPS is at -11.1%, with operating margin around 10.0%.
Shareholder return is still part of the story
The stock is still offering a dividend yield around 1.0%, which matters if the thesis depends on income as much as growth.
Earnings Reaction Memory
How the stock has tended to move after recent reports.
Across the last 3 reported quarters, the stock averaged +3.2% over the next 5 trading days and finished higher after 3 of those reports.
View quarter-by-quarter reaction table
| Quarter | EPS ฮ | 1D | 5D | 20D |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2026 Apr 27, 2026 | โ | +4.7% | +5.0% | +11.8% |
2026 Jan 26, 2026 | -9.4% | -2.3% | +1.9% | -1.4% |
2025 Oct 27, 2025 | +20.6% | +5.4% | +2.7% | +6.6% |
Benchmark Edge
NUE vs SPY, QQQ, and Sector ETFs
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
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Normalized return
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Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
NUE Max Drawdown
-18.43%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Calendar-Year Returns
Uses the longest available daily history for NUE and SPY.
Company Overview
Nucor Corporation
New York Stock Exchange
Nucor Corporation manufactures and sells steel and steel products. The company's 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 products; and bar steel products, such as blooms, billets, concrete reinforcing and merchant bars, and special bar quality products. It also engages in the steel trading and rebar distribution businesses. This segment sells its products to steel service centers, fabricators, and manufacturers in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Its Steel Products segment offers hollow structural section steel tubing products, electrical conduits, steel racking, steel joists and joist girders, steel decks, fabricated concrete reinforcing steel products, cold finished steel products, steel fasteners, metal building systems, insulated metal panels, steel grating and expanded metal products, and wire and wire mesh products primarily for use in nonresidential construction applications. This segment also engages in the piling distribution business. The company's Raw Materials segment produces direct reduced iron (DRI); brokers ferrous and nonferrous metals, pig iron, hot briquetted iron, and DRI; supplies ferro-alloys; and processes ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal, as well as engages in the natural gas drilling operations. 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. It serves agriculture, automotive, construction, energy and transmission, oil and gas, heavy equipment, infrastructure, and transportation industries through its in-house sales force; and internal distribution and trading companies. Nucor Corporation was incorporated in 1958 and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
- Leadership
- Leon J. Topalian
- IPO Date
- Mar 17, 1980
- Employees
- 32.7k
- Street Address
- 1915 Rexford Road
- Mailing
- Charlotte, NC, 28211
- Region
- Charlotte, NC, US
- Reporting Currency
- USD
- Investor Line
- 704 366 7000
- Last Updated
- May 2, 2026
Key Fundamentals
Valuation, growth, profitability, and balance sheet signals.
Valuation
- P/E
- 22.2
- EV/EBITDA
- 11.5
- Price/Sales
- 1.5
- Price/Book
- 2.4
Growth
- Revenue
- +5.7%
- EPS
- -11.1%
- Free Cash Flow
- -123.3%
Profitability
- Gross Margin
- 14.0%
- Operating Margin
- 10.0%
- Net Margin
- 6.8%
- ROE
- 11.2%
- ROIC
- 8.6%
Balance Sheet
- Debt/Equity
- 0.33
- Current Ratio
- 2.90
Earnings Reports
Latest News
Official Releases
Company announcements and filings-style updates.
Next Step
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