Nucor Corporation (NUE)

US — Basic Materials Sector
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Key Metrics & Ratings

  • symbol NUE
  • Rev/Share 137.9601
  • Book/Share 94.8983
  • PB 1.8085
  • Debt/Equity 0.3299
  • CurrentRatio 2.7738
  • ROIC 0.0655

 

  • MktCap 37199623802.0
  • FreeCF/Share -1.4313
  • PFCF -112.4627
  • PE 22.7237
  • Debt/Assets 0.1971
  • DivYield 0.0135
  • ROE 0.0811

 

  • Rating A-
  • Score 4
  • Recommendation Buy
  • P/E Score 2
  • DCF Score 5
  • P/B Score 3
  • D/E Score 2

Recent Analyst Ratings

Type Ticker Analyst Firm Previous Rating Current Rating Previous Price Target Current Price Target Date
Upgrade NUE Wells Fargo Equal Weight Overweight -- -- Nov. 14, 2025
Initiation NUE Wells Fargo -- Equal Weight -- $145 Aug. 14, 2025
Upgrade NUE Jefferies Hold Buy -- $170 July 31, 2025
Upgrade NUE BMO Capital Markets Market Perform Outperform -- $145 June 2, 2025
Upgrade NUE UBS Neutral Buy -- $160 March 24, 2025
Downgrade NUE UBS Buy Neutral $171 $156 Dec. 12, 2024
Upgrade NUE JP Morgan Neutral Overweight $170 $174 Sept. 9, 2024

News

The Smartest Steel Stocks to Buy With $2,000 Right Now
NUE, STLD
Published: February 20, 2025 by: The Motley Fool
Sentiment: Neutral

Tariffs come and tariffs go. And creative businesses often find ways around tariffs.

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Nucor Executive Vice President Gregory J. Murphy to Retire; Benjamin M.
NUE
Published: February 19, 2025 by: PRNewsWire
Sentiment: Neutral

CHARLOTTE, N.C. , Feb. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Nucor Corporation (NYSE: NUE) announced today that Gregory J.

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Nucor Announces 208th Consecutive Cash Dividend
NUE
Published: February 18, 2025 by: PRNewsWire
Sentiment: Neutral

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Feb. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of Nucor Corporation (NYSE: NUE) declared the regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.55 per share on Nucor's common stock.

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Nucor Trades at Premium Valuation: Buy, Sell or Hold the Stock?
NUE
Published: February 17, 2025 by: Zacks Investment Research
Sentiment: Positive

While NUE gains on its actions to grow through acquisitions and capacity expansion, weak steel prices weigh on its prospects.

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Nucor: Time To Build A Position For The Next Cycle In The Megatrend (Rating Upgrade)
NUE
Published: February 13, 2025 by: Seeking Alpha
Sentiment: Positive

I am upgrading NUE shares to a BUY rating with a price target of $152/share, driven by supportive tariffs and strong market outlooks across key industries. Nucor may not be significantly impacted by tariffs as most of its steel exports are high-value-added products as opposed to commoditized steel. Nucor's long-term growth may be supported by multiple megatrends, including nearshoring, data center construction, and power transmission.

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6 Stocks Poised to Benefit From a Trade War in Unexpected Ways
ALL, KMX, KR, NUE, REBN, SCHW
Published: February 13, 2025 by: MarketBeat
Sentiment: Neutral

President Trump put a 30-day pause on levying 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico but proceeded to levy an additional 10% tariff on Chinese imports. Trump has also acknowledged that he would be levying tariffs on European imports in time.

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Steel tariffs create 'level playing field', says Nucor CEO Leon Topalian
NUE
Published: February 11, 2025 by: CNBC Television
Sentiment: Positive

Leon Topalian, Nucor CEO, joins 'Closing Bell Overtime' to talk the impact of steel tariffs

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Stocks to Watch as Trump Announces 25% Tariffs on Steel & Aluminum
AA, CLF, NUE, X
Published: February 10, 2025 by: Zacks Investment Research
Sentiment: Positive

These stocks are worth keeping an eye on as President Trump has implemented a 25% tariff on imported steel and aluminum products.

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What Trump's Steel and Aluminum Tariffs Mean for the Metals Market
AA, CLF, CMC, NUE, SLX, X
Published: February 10, 2025 by: Bloomberg Markets and Finance
Sentiment: Neutral

Bloomberg News Metals & Mining Reporter Joe Deaux joins Bloomberg Businessweek to discuss President Trump's plans to impose 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. -------- More on Bloomberg Television and Markets Like this video?

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About Nucor Corporation (NUE)

  • IPO Date 1980-03-17
  • Website https://www.nucor.com
  • Industry Steel
  • CEO Leon J. Topalian
  • Employees 32700

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.