Why Nucor Corporation’s (NUE) Stock Is Up 5.64%
As of Tuesday, July 28, Nucor Corporation’s NUE share price has surged by 5.64%, which has investors questioning if this is right time to sell.Rosalio Madrigal
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COMPANY SUMMARY
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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Financial Summary
| Share Statistics | NUE | Industry Median |
Percentile (All Stocks) |
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| Market Cap (Mil) | $58,595.5 | $1,445.3 | 94% |
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| Shares Out (Mil) | 229.3 | 136.1 | 79% |
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| Institutional Ownership | 99.3% | 83.3% | 87% |
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| Float (Mil) | 222.3 | 137.8 | 76% |
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| Beta | 1.92 | 1.22 | 91% |
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| Avg Daily Volume (000s) | 1,520 | 402 | 77% |
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| Price Change (52-week) |
80.0% | 57.2% | 88% |
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| Growth | NUE | Industry Median |
Percentile (All Stocks) |
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| Sales (5yr) | 10.0% | 10.8% | 58% |
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| Net Income (5yr) | 19.3% | (2.5%) | 72% |
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| EPS (5yr) | 26.0% | 7.2% | 76 |
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| Dividends (5yr) | 6.5% | 0.0% | 91% |
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| Cash Flow (5yr) | (27.7%) | (8.1%) | 22% |
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| Estimates | Qtrly | Current Fiscal Year |
Next Fiscal Year |
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| # of Estimates | 8 | 9 | 14 | |
| Current EPS | $5.756 | $18.536 | $18.142 | |
| Month Ago EPS | $5.242 | $16.875 | $17.062 | |
| # Rev Up | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| # Rev Down | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Three Months Ago EPS | $4.161 | $14.534 | $15.655 | |
| Year/Year Chg | 78.2% | 146.5% | 142.6% | |
| Financials | NUE | Industry Median |
Percentile (All Stocks) |
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| Sales (TTM) (Mil) | $34,160 | $1,641 | 95% |
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| Net Income (TTM) (Mil) | $2,331 | $0 | 93% |
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| EPS (TTM) | $10.102 | $0.000 | 94% |
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| Operating Cash Flow (TTM) (Mil) | $3,756 | $28 | 93% |
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| Net Cash Flow (TTM) (Mil) | ($930) | $27 | 4% |
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| Long-Term Debt (Q1) (Mil) | $6,877 | $51 | 88% |
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| Enterprise Value (Q1) (Mil) | $44,360 | $1,908 | 91% |
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| Valuation | NUE | Industry Median |
Percentile (All Stocks) |
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| P/B | 2.73 | 2.55 | 62% |
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| P/E | 25.5 | 13.7 | 62% |
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| Dividend Yield | 0.9% | 0.0% | 66% |
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| PEG (5yr hist) | 1.0 | 0.5 | 43% |
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| Ratios | NUE | Industry Median |
Percentile (All Stocks) |
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| Gross Margin | 15.6% | 37.7% | 15% |
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| Net Margin | 8.0% | 7.0% | 58% |
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| ROA | 6.6% | 0.1% | 78% |
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| ROE | 11.2% | 2.3% | 61% |
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| Liabilities to Assets | 36.7% | 34.5% | 27% |
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| F-Score | 8 | 4 | 94% |
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Passing Stock Screens
As of 7/31/2026, from a list of 60 stock screening strategies,
GURU STRATEGY
Kirkpatrick Growth Screen
Factors: Momentum, Growth
Investing model outlined in Charles Kirkpatrick's book, Beat the Market: Invest by Knowing What Stocks to Buy and What Stocks to Sell.
| Performance Since Inception: | 14.2% |
| +/- S&P 500: | +6.7 |
FACTOR STRATEGY
P/E Relative Screen
Factors: Value, Earnings Estimates
A screen that looks at the relationship of a stock's price-earnings ratio to that of the industry and market.
| Performance Since Inception: | 13.7% |
| +/- S&P 500: | +6.2 |
