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Nucor Corporation (NUE)

Basic Materials | Steel | Charlotte, United States | NYSE
233.00 USD +5.63 (2.476%) ⇧ (July 13, 2026, 4 p.m. EDT)
After hours: 233.40 +0.40 (0.172%) ⇧ (July 13, 2026, 8 p.m. EDT)
Short-term:★★⯪☆☆Long-term:★★★★☆Dividends:★★⯪☆☆
Hot Take ↕ | July 11, 2026, 4:27 a.m. EDT

Despite a recent pullback that has left the stock trading below its fifty-day moving average, the underlying business quality remains robust with revenue growing at a healthy twenty-one percent pace. The forward price-to-earnings ratio of thirteen times suggests the market is pricing in a slower earnings expansion, creating a valuation discount compared to the trailing twelve-month metrics. While the technical setup is currently weak and the statistical forecast offers only a weak lean toward upside, the analyst consensus remains bullish with a mean target price significantly higher than the current level. The dividend yield is modest but highly sustainable given the low payout ratio. Investors should view the recent price weakness as a temporary dislocation rather than a structural failure, provided the operating cash flow continues to support the balance sheet.
Model Selection — Backtest MAE (log-scale, lower is better)
ModelMAE
AutoTheta ✓0.041053
AutoETS0.324950
MSTL0.353626
AutoARIMA0.416003

Forecast horizon: 45 days | Selected: AutoTheta

Forecast Reliability
Score 38%
H-stat 14.28
Ljung-Box p 0.000
Jarque-Bera p 0.031
Excess Kurtosis 0.75
Attribute Value
Sector Basic Materials
Ex Dividend Date 2026-06-29
Last Dividend Date 2026-06-29
Debt to Equity Ratio 31.595
Revenue per Share 148.683
Market Cap 53,063,639,040
Trailing P/E 23.14
Forward P/E 13.49
Beta 1.92
Profit Margins 6.82%
Website https://www.nucor.com

As of July 11, 2026, 4:27 a.m. EDT: Implied volatility remains elevated across expirations, ranging from 36% to 45%, indicating heightened uncertainty. Call open interest builds significantly at strikes above $250, with major concentration walls at $270 and $280 for later months, suggesting traders view these levels as potential resistance or targets. Conversely, deep out-of-the-money put open interest is substantial for January and June 2027, reflecting a hedge against long-term downside or speculative bets on a further decline. The mix of bullish call positioning at higher strikes against defensive put buying creates a conflicted sentiment profile.

Dividend Data

Yield Summary
Last Yield 1yr Yield 3yr Avg 5yr Avg
0.25% 1.33% 1.43% 1.49%
Dividend History
Date Dividend Yield %
2026-06-30 0.560000 0.251403
2026-03-31 0.560000 0.331165
2025-12-31 0.560000 0.343327
2025-09-30 0.550000 0.406114
2025-06-30 0.550000 0.424579
2025-03-31 0.550000 0.457038
2024-12-31 0.550000 0.471254
2024-09-27 0.540000 0.359688
2024-06-28 0.540000 0.341599
2024-03-27 0.540000 0.271958
2023-12-28 0.540000 0.308237
2023-09-28 0.510000 0.323276
2023-06-29 0.510000 0.312251
2023-03-30 0.510000 0.336945
2022-12-29 0.510000 0.381851
2022-09-29 0.500000 0.474879
2022-06-29 0.500000 0.470588
2022-03-30 0.500000 0.334515
2021-12-30 0.500000 0.439174
2021-09-29 0.405000 0.405852
2021-06-29 0.405000 0.427983
2021-03-30 0.405000 0.503794
2020-12-30 0.405000 0.765017
2020-09-29 0.403000 0.900760
2020-06-29 0.403000 0.985330
2020-03-30 0.403000 1.154066
2019-12-30 0.403000 0.718616
2019-09-26 0.400000 0.810701
2019-06-27 0.400000 0.733003
2019-03-28 0.400000 0.694203
2018-12-28 0.400000 0.770713
2018-09-27 0.380000 0.602505
2018-06-28 0.380000 0.606061
2018-03-28 0.380000 0.640593
2017-12-28 0.380000 0.590612
2017-09-28 0.378000 0.681204
2017-06-28 0.378000 0.649820
2017-03-29 0.378000 0.632424
2016-12-28 0.378000 0.620486
2016-09-28 0.375000 0.754072
2016-06-28 0.375000 0.792309
2016-03-29 0.375000 0.793819
2015-12-29 0.375000 0.926383
2015-09-28 0.373000 1.008108
2015-06-26 0.373000 0.806486
2015-03-27 0.372000 0.800000
2014-12-29 0.372000 0.755790
2014-09-26 0.370000 0.669926
2014-06-26 0.370000 0.742227
2014-03-27 0.370000 0.737199
2013-12-27 0.370000 0.685185
2013-09-25 0.368000 0.743735
2013-06-26 0.367000 0.840586
2013-03-26 0.367000 0.798000
2012-12-27 0.367000 0.850521
2012-09-26 0.365000 0.958257
2012-06-27 0.365000 0.995364
2012-03-28 0.365000 0.857814
2011-12-28 0.365000 0.922649
2011-09-28 0.363000 1.137574
2011-06-28 0.363000 0.914588
2011-03-29 0.363000 0.778636
2010-12-29 0.363000 0.820339
2010-09-28 0.360000 0.946870
2010-06-28 0.360000 0.896861
2010-03-29 0.360000 0.781929
2009-12-29 0.360000 0.781589
2009-09-28 0.350000 0.738552
2009-06-26 0.350000 0.775194
2009-03-27 0.350000 0.863345
2008-12-29 0.350000 0.787224
2008-09-26 0.520000 1.172227
2008-06-26 0.520000 0.703939
2008-03-26 0.520000 0.727782
2007-12-27 0.610000 1.007598
2007-09-26 0.610000 1.014975
2007-06-27 0.610000 1.057376
2007-03-28 0.610000 0.940632
2006-12-27 0.600000 1.077393
2006-09-27 0.600000 1.221001
2006-06-28 0.600000 1.133573
2006-03-29 0.250000 0.472545
2005-12-28 0.325000 0.966830
2005-09-28 0.200000 0.686460
2005-06-28 0.125000 0.524439
2005-03-29 0.125000 0.444682
2004-12-29 0.065000 0.236924
2004-09-28 0.065000 0.287293
2004-06-28 0.052500 0.279963
2004-03-29 0.052500 0.338055
2003-12-29 0.050000 0.346921
2003-09-26 0.050000 0.438693
2003-06-26 0.050000 0.404776
2003-03-27 0.050000 0.522603
2002-12-27 0.047500 0.460606
2002-09-25 0.047500 0.474525
2002-06-26 0.047500 0.294756
2002-03-26 0.047500 0.304731
2001-12-26 0.042500 0.329969
2001-09-26 0.042500 0.457604
2001-06-27 0.042500 0.357143
2001-03-28 0.042500 0.408261
2000-12-27 0.037500 0.389610
2000-09-27 0.037500 0.495868
2000-06-28 0.037500 0.444033
2000-03-29 0.037500 0.311284
1999-12-29 0.032500 0.236364
1999-09-28 0.032500 0.286897
1999-06-28 0.032500 0.273684
1999-03-29 0.032500 0.286897
1998-12-29 0.030000 0.284024
1998-09-28 0.030000 0.279883
1998-06-26 0.030000 0.261224
1998-03-27 0.030000 0.217195
1997-12-29 0.025000 0.215633
1997-09-26 0.025000 0.182232
1997-06-26 0.025000 0.173913
1997-03-26 0.025000 0.212766
1996-12-27 0.020000 0.158416
1996-09-26 0.020000 0.160000
1996-06-26 0.020000 0.154589
1996-03-27 0.020000 0.133612
1995-12-27 0.017500 0.126984
1995-09-27 0.017500 0.158192
1995-06-28 0.017500 0.129930
1995-03-27 0.017500 0.133652
1994-12-23 0.011250 0.082380
1994-09-26 0.011250 0.065099
1994-06-24 0.011250 0.067164
1994-03-25 0.011250 0.071713
1993-12-27 0.010000 0.078431
1993-09-24 0.010000 0.080000
1993-06-24 0.010000 0.092486
1993-03-25 0.010000 0.084433
1992-12-24 0.008750 0.093333
1992-09-24 0.008750 0.131148
1992-06-24 0.008750 0.138614
1992-03-25 0.008750 0.149933
1991-12-24 0.008125 0.163009
1991-09-24 0.008125 0.160000
1991-06-24 0.008125 0.166134
1991-03-22 0.008125 0.169106
1990-12-24 0.007500 0.195122
1990-09-24 0.007500 0.218182
1990-06-25 0.007500 0.173599
1990-03-26 0.007500 0.185328
1989-12-22 0.006875 0.186836
1989-09-25 0.006875 0.185654
1989-06-26 0.006875 0.185263
1989-03-27 0.006875 0.231579
1988-12-23 0.006250 0.213904
1988-09-26 0.006250 0.233236
1988-06-24 0.006250 0.238095
1988-03-25 0.006250 0.227920
1987-12-24 0.005625 0.229299
1987-09-24 0.005625 0.192000
1987-06-24 0.005625 0.225000
1987-03-25 0.005625 0.259928
1986-12-24 0.005000 0.271186
1986-09-24 0.005000 0.241509
1986-06-24 0.005000 0.189911
1986-03-24 0.004583 0.166655
1985-12-24 0.004167 0.193252
1985-09-24 0.004167 0.229903
1985-06-24 0.004167 0.273995
1985-03-25 0.004167 0.281713
1984-12-24 0.003750 0.286853
1984-09-24 0.003750 0.272727
1984-06-25 0.003750 0.313043
1984-03-26 0.003750 0.249135
1983-12-23 0.003333 0.200607
1983-09-26 0.003333 0.198738
Additional Data
dividendRate 2.24
dividendYield 0.99
exDividendDate 2026-06-30
trailingAnnualDividendRate 2.22
trailingAnnualDividendYield 0.009763821
lastDividendValue 0.56
lastDividendDate 2026-06-30
dividendDate 2026-08-11

Info Dump

Attribute Value
52 Week Change 0.6060606
Address1 1,915 Rexford Road
All Time High 270.9
All Time Low 0.625
Ask 233.4
Ask Size 100
Audit Risk 9
Average Analyst Rating 1.6 - Buy
Average Daily Volume10 Day 1,606,280
Average Daily Volume3 Month 1,627,260
Average Volume 1,627,260
Average Volume10Days 1,606,280
Beta 1.922
Bid 228.05
Bid Size 300
Board Risk 7
Book Value 94.199
City Charlotte
Compensation As Of Epoch Date 1,672,444,800
Compensation Risk 2
Country United States
Crypto Tradeable 0
Currency USD
Current Price 233.0
Current Ratio 2.901
Custom Price Alert Confidence HIGH
Date Short Interest 1,782,777,600
Day High 235.7
Day Low 228.235
Debt To Equity 31.595
Display Name Nucor
Dividend Date 1,786,406,400
Dividend Rate 2.24
Dividend Yield 0.99
Earnings Call Timestamp End 1,785,268,800
Earnings Call Timestamp Start 1,785,268,800
Earnings Growth 3.821
Earnings Quarterly Growth 3.763
Earnings Timestamp 1,785,182,400
Earnings Timestamp End 1,785,182,400
Earnings Timestamp Start 1,785,182,400
Ebitda 4,953,999,872
Ebitda Margins 0.14502
Enterprise To Ebitda 11.87
Enterprise To Revenue 1.721
Enterprise Value 58,801,639,424
Eps Current Year 17.18625
Eps Forward 17.27113
Eps Trailing Twelve Months 10.07
Esg Populated 0
Ex Dividend Date 1,782,777,600
Exchange NYQ
Exchange Data Delayed By 0
Exchange Timezone Name America/New_York
Exchange Timezone Short Name EDT
Fax 704 362 4208
Fifty Day Average 238.192
Fifty Day Average Change -5.1920013
Fifty Day Average Change Percent -0.021797547
Fifty Two Week Change Percent 60.606064
Fifty Two Week High 270.9
Fifty Two Week High Change -37.899994
Fifty Two Week High Change Percent -0.139904
Fifty Two Week Low 131.32
Fifty Two Week Low Change 101.67999
Fifty Two Week Low Change Percent 0.7742917
Fifty Two Week Range 131.32 - 270.9
Financial Currency USD
First Trade Date Milliseconds 322,151,400,000
Five Year Avg Dividend Yield 1.41
Float Shares 222,286,554
Forward Eps 17.27113
Forward P E 13.490722
Free Cashflow -384,100,000
Full Exchange Name NYSE
Full Time Employees 33,000
Gmt Off Set Milliseconds -14,400,000
Governance Epoch Date 1,782,864,000
Gross Margins 0.14062999
Gross Profits 4,803,999,744
Has Pre Post Market Data 1
Held Percent Insiders 0.02083
Held Percent Institutions 0.79638
Implied Shares Outstanding 227,740,950
Industry Steel
Industry Disp Steel
Industry Key steel
Ir Website http://www.nucor.com/investor/
Is Earnings Date Estimate 0
Language en-US
Last Dividend Date 1,782,777,600
Last Dividend Value 0.56
Last Fiscal Year End 1,767,139,200
Last Split Date 1,149,120,000
Last Split Factor 2:1
Long Business 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.
Long Name Nucor Corporation
Market us_market
Market Cap 53,063,639,040
Market State POSTPOST
Max Age 86,400
Message Board Id finmb_184945
Most Recent Quarter 1,775,260,800
Net Income To Common 2,320,999,936
Next Fiscal Year End 1,798,675,200
Non Diluted Market Cap 51,781,459,801
Number Of Analyst Opinions 16
Open 228.6
Operating Cashflow 3,756,000,000
Operating Margins 0.11826
Overall Risk 8
Payout Ratio 0.2202
Peg Ratio 5.21
Phone 704 366 7000
Post Market Change 0.3999939
Post Market Change Percent 0.1716712
Post Market Price 233.4
Post Market Time 1,783,987,200
Previous Close 227.37
Price Eps Current Year 13.557349
Price Hint 2
Price To Book 2.4734871
Price To Sales Trailing12 Months 1.5533851
Profit Margins 0.06824
Quick Ratio 1.451
Quote Source Name Delayed Quote
Quote Type EQUITY
Recommendation Key buy
Recommendation Mean 1.64706
Region US
Regular Market Change 5.63
Regular Market Change Percent 2.47614
Regular Market Day High 235.7
Regular Market Day Low 228.235
Regular Market Day Range 228.235 - 235.7
Regular Market Open 228.6
Regular Market Previous Close 227.37
Regular Market Price 233.0
Regular Market Time 1,783,972,802
Regular Market Volume 1,060,286
Return On Assets 0.06146
Return On Equity 0.12285
Revenue Growth 0.213
Revenue Per Share 148.683
Sand P52 Week Change 0.20847368
Sector Basic Materials
Sector Disp Basic Materials
Sector Key basic-materials
Share Holder Rights Risk 8
Shares Outstanding 227,740,950
Shares Percent Shares Out 0.019299999
Shares Short 4,384,931
Shares Short Previous Month Date 1,780,012,800
Shares Short Prior Month 3,869,398
Short Name Nucor Corporation
Short Percent Of Float 0.0255
Short Ratio 2.36
Source Interval 15
State NC
Symbol NUE
Target High Price 285.0
Target Low Price 138.17
Target Mean Price 261.19812
Target Median Price 274.0
Total Cash 2,480,999,936
Total Cash Per Share 10.894
Total Debt 7,123,999,744
Total Revenue 34,160,001,024
Tradeable 0
Trailing Annual Dividend Rate 2.22
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield 0.009763821
Trailing Eps 10.07
Trailing P E 23.138035
Trailing Peg Ratio None
Triggerable 1
Two Hundred Day Average 183.3253
Two Hundred Day Average Change 49.674698
Two Hundred Day Average Change Percent 0.27096477
Type Disp Equity
Volume 1,060,286
Website https://www.nucor.com
Zip 28,211