Nucor Corp (NUE)

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.

Symbol
NUE
Exchange
NYSE
Sector
Basic Materials
Industry
Steel
Market cap
$54.54B
52 week range
131.32 - 280.11

Valuation

Share price
$240.39 (close of 2026-10-02)
P/E (TTM)
19.17x
Price to book
2.34x
Price to free cash flow
34.45x
Enterprise value
$58.95B
Book value per share
$102.55

Price performance

PeriodChange
1 day+1.87%
5 days-2.77%
1 month-8.93%
3 months+8.90%
6 months+39.39%
Year to date+47.38%
1 year+72.92%
3 years+55.31%
5 years+146.18%
10 years+386.13%
All time+29948.75%

Members of Congress who disclosed NUE trades

Jefferson Shreve · Alan Armstrong · Julia Letlow · Robert Bresnahan

Super investors holding NUE

Warren Buffett (Berkshire Hathaway) · Ray Dalio (Bridgewater Associates) · Ken Griffin (Citadel) · Dodge & Cox (Dodge & Cox Funds) · David Katz (Matrix Asset Advisors Inc)

Profitability and growth

Return on equity
7.88%
Return on assets
4.97%
Gross margin
11.93%
Net margin
5.37%
EBITDA margin
11.29%
Revenue growth
5.73%
Net income growth
-13.96%
Free cash flow growth
-123.33%

Cash flow and balance sheet

Free cash flow yield (TTM)
2.90%
Current ratio
2.51x
Net debt to EBITDA
0.76x

Latest reported year

Period end
2025-12-31
Fiscal year
2025
Revenue
$32.49B
Cost of revenue
$28.62B
Gross profit
$3.88B
EBITDA
$3.67B
Net income
$1.74B
Earnings per share
$7.53
Interest expense
$170.00M
Shares outstanding
230.70M

Income statement by year

Period endRevenueGross profitNet incomeEPS
2025-12-31$32.49B$3.88B$1.74B$7.53
2024-12-31$30.73B$4.10B$2.03B$8.47
2023-12-31$34.71B$7.82B$4.53B$18.05
2022-12-31$41.51B$12.50B$7.61B$28.88
2021-12-31$36.48B$11.03B$6.83B$23.23
2020-12-31$20.14B$2.23B$721.47M$2.37
2019-12-31$22.59B$2.68B$1.27B$4.14
2018-12-31$25.07B$4.30B$2.36B$7.44
2017-12-31$20.25B$2.57B$1.32B$4.11
2016-12-31$16.21B$2.03B$796.27M$2.48

Margins and returns by year

Period endGross marginNet marginReturn on equity
2025-12-3111.93%5.37%7.88%
2024-12-3113.35%6.60%9.46%
2023-12-3122.51%13.04%20.45%
2022-12-3130.12%18.32%38.87%
2021-12-3130.22%18.71%46.75%
2020-12-3111.06%3.58%6.42%
2019-12-3111.86%5.63%11.78%
2018-12-3117.14%9.42%23.14%
2017-12-3112.69%6.51%14.52%
2016-12-3112.50%4.91%9.65%

Cash and debt by year

Period endCashDebt
2025-12-31$2.70B-
2024-12-31$4.14B-
2023-12-31$7.13B-
2022-12-31$4.86B-
2021-12-31$2.62B-
2020-12-31$3.05B-
2019-12-31$1.83B-
2018-12-31$1.40B$4.23B
2017-12-31$999.10M$3.24B
2016-12-31$2.20B$3.74B

Free cash flow by year

Period endFree cash flowStock-based compensation
2025-12-31-$188.00M$133.00M
2024-12-31$806.00M$132.00M
2023-12-31$4.90B$130.00M
2022-12-31$8.12B$137.00M
2021-12-31$4.61B$135.78M
2020-12-31$1.15B$73.85M
2019-12-31$1.33B$90.36M
2018-12-31$1.41B$73.42M
2017-12-31$606.78M$64.18M
2016-12-31$1.15B$56.51M

Dividend history

Most recent payment
2026-09-30
Paid in the last twelve months
$2.24
Payment dateDividend per share
2026-09-30$0.56
2026-06-30$0.56
2026-03-31$0.56
2025-12-31$0.56
2025-09-30$0.55
2025-06-30$0.55
2025-03-31$0.55
2024-12-31$0.55

Investor relations

Next earnings report

Next confirmed report
2026-10-26
Consensus EPS estimate
$5.83

Past earnings dates

ReportedFiscal periodEPS estimate
2026-07-27Jun/2026$4.57
2026-04-27Mar/2026$2.79
2026-01-26Dec/2025$1.82
2025-10-27Sep/2025$2.15
2025-07-28Jun/2025$2.62
2025-04-28Mar/2025$0.68
2025-01-27Dec/2024$0.64
2024-10-21Sep/2024$1.40

Filings and sources

Company website
nucor.com
SEC filings
10-K, 10-Q and 8-K on EDGAR
Earnings calendar
All upcoming reports

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