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In this article, we go over a few key elements for understanding Nucor Corporation’s stock price such as:

• Nucor Corporation’s current stock price and volume
• Why Nucor Corporation’s stock price changed recently
• Upgrades and downgrades for NUE from analysts
• NUE’s stock price momentum as measured by its relative strength

About Nucor Corporation (NUE)

Before we jump into Nucor Corporation’s stock price, history, target price and what caused it to recently rise, let’s take a look at some background.

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.

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Nucor Corporation’s Stock Price as of Market Close

As of July 31, 2026, 4:00 PM, CST, Nucor Corporation’s stock price was $257.290.

Nucor Corporation is up 0.1% from its previous closing price of $257.040.

During the last market session, Nucor Corporation’s stock traded between $255.384 and $259.950. Currently, there are approximately 228.90 million shares outstanding for Nucor Corporation.

Nucor Corporation’s price-earnings (P/E) ratio is currently at 25.5, which is high compared to the Metals & Mining industry median of 13.7. The price-earnings ratio gauges market expectation of future performance by relating a stock’s current share price to its earnings per share.

Nucor Corporation Stock Price History

Nucor Corporation’s (NUE) price is currently up 15.51% so far this month.

During the month of July, Nucor Corporation’s stock price has reached a high of $270.020 and a low of $214.610.

Over the last year, Nucor Corporation has hit prices as high as $270.900 and as low as $131.320. Year to date, Nucor Corporation’s stock is up 57.74%.

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What Caused Nucor Corporation Stock’s Price to Rise?

Stock prices are primarily based on seller supply and buyer demand. But have you ever wondered about what other factors affect a stock's price?

When an analyst changes their opinion of a stock by upgrading or downgrading their rating, it often leads to a sudden stock price adjustment. As of July 31, 2026, there was 1 analyst who downgraded Nucor Corporation’s stock and 0 analysts who upgraded over the last month.

Additionally, you'll want to evaluate Nucor Corporation’s financial health and valuation. Investors can use AAII's Value Grade, which combines six key valuation metrics like P/E and P/S ratios for a comprehensive analysis to conduct analysis on Nucor Corporation’s valuation and financial health. This approach mitigates the limitations of single-metric evaluations.

Nucor Corporation’s current valuation based on AAII’s Value Grade is a C, which means it is considered to be Average.

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Lastly, news and media coverage as well as recent press reports about the company or its industry may cause stock prices to fluctuate. You can check out the most recent news articles about Nucor Corporation (NUE) by visiting AAII Stock Evaluator.

Relative Price Strength of Nucor Corporation

Relative price strength measures a stock's performance against the market, helping investors identify stocks that are outperforming benchmarks.

For AAII’s Momentum Grade, a weighted relative price strength is calculated. Follow this link to learn more about the Momentum Grade.

As of July 31, 2026, Nucor Corporation has a weighted four-quarter relative price strength of 11.07%, which translates to a Momentum Score of 84 and is considered to be Very Strong.

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Nucor Corporation Stock Price: Bottom Line

As of July 31, 2026, Nucor Corporation’s stock price is $257.290, which is up 0.1% from its previous closing price.

AAII advises against making stock decisions based solely on price or past returns. Instead, consider a variety of metrics, fundamentals, and analytics to evaluate a stock like Nucor Corporation stock prices are influenced by market supply and demand and offer just a snapshot of a company's overall health.

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