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Steel Dynamics, Inc. (STLD)

Basic Materials | Steel | Fort Wayne, United States | NasdaqGS
234.14 USD +5.72 (2.504%) ⇧ (July 13, 2026, 4 p.m. EDT)

Short-term:★★⯪☆☆Long-term:★★★★☆Dividends:★★⯪☆☆
Hot Take | July 11, 2026, 4:24 a.m. EDT

The business is firing on all cylinders with revenue surging nearly 20 percent and earnings exploding by 93 percent, yet the stock price is currently lagging behind its immediate moving averages. While the long-term trajectory is exceptional with a massive cumulative gain over the last nine years and zero consecutive years of decline, the short-term technicals are soft, keeping the price below the fifty-day average. Analysts see significant upside potential here, and the dividend is growing steadily, though it remains a modest yield suitable for income seekers who prioritize capital appreciation over high cash flow. The negative free cash flow is a notable drag on the perfect score, preventing a top-tier rating, but the operational cash generation remains robust enough to sustain the payout comfortably.

Model Selection — Backtest MAE (log-scale, lower is better)
ModelMAE
AutoTheta ✓0.060019
MSTL0.082819
AutoETS0.087417
AutoARIMA0.180028

Forecast horizon: 45 days | Selected: AutoTheta

Forecast Reliability
Score 39%
H-stat 14.24
Ljung-Box p 0.000
Jarque-Bera p 0.662
Excess Kurtosis -0.59
Attribute Value
Sector Basic Materials
Ex Dividend Date 2026-06-29
Last Dividend Date 2026-06-29
Debt to Equity Ratio 45.994
Revenue per Share 129.83
Market Cap 33,765,980,160
Trailing P/E 25.10
Forward P/E 12.45
Beta 1.54
Profit Margins 7.22%
Website https://www.steeldynamics.com

As of July 11, 2026, 4:24 a.m. EDT: Speculators are positioning net bullish for the near term, with call open interest exceeding put open interest across most expirations. Deep in-the-money call volume suggests hedging or institutional accumulation rather than pure speculative bets. Put activity is concentrated at the 250 strike for later months, indicating a floor expectation. Implied volatility remains moderate around 50%, suggesting the market expects standard moves without extreme turbulence.


Dividend Data

Yield Summary
Last Yield 1yr Yield 3yr Avg 5yr Avg
0.23% 1.18% 1.39% 1.51%
Dividend History
Date Dividend Yield %
2026-06-30 0.53000 0.230977
2026-03-31 0.53000 0.294444
2025-12-31 0.50000 0.295072
2025-09-30 0.50000 0.358603
2025-06-30 0.50000 0.390595
2025-03-31 0.50000 0.399744
2024-12-31 0.46000 0.403261
2024-09-30 0.46000 0.364848
2024-06-28 0.46000 0.355212
2024-03-27 0.46000 0.312946
2023-12-28 0.42500 0.356903
2023-09-28 0.42500 0.401133
2023-06-29 0.42500 0.389408
2023-03-30 0.42500 0.381679
2022-12-29 0.34000 0.345493
2022-09-29 0.34000 0.480837
2022-06-29 0.34000 0.508754
2022-03-30 0.34000 0.406504
2021-12-30 0.26000 0.420168
2021-09-29 0.26000 0.436608
2021-06-29 0.26000 0.442553
2021-03-30 0.26000 0.507020
2020-12-30 0.25000 0.683247
2020-09-29 0.25000 0.872296
2020-06-29 0.25000 0.971251
2020-03-30 0.25000 1.145213
2019-12-30 0.24000 0.704639
2019-09-27 0.24000 0.816882
2019-06-27 0.24000 0.790514
2019-03-28 0.24000 0.692241
2018-12-28 0.18800 0.629394
2018-09-27 0.18800 0.412915
2018-06-28 0.18800 0.409675
2018-03-28 0.18800 0.440281
2017-12-28 0.15500 0.353720
2017-09-28 0.15500 0.448236
2017-06-28 0.15500 0.443618
2017-03-29 0.15500 0.451369
2016-12-28 0.14000 0.384510
2016-09-28 0.14000 0.547517
2016-06-28 0.14000 0.596506
2016-03-29 0.14000 0.620018
2015-12-29 0.13800 0.762852
2015-09-28 0.13800 0.826842
2015-06-26 0.13800 0.625850
2015-03-27 0.13800 0.707692
2014-12-29 0.11500 0.586735
2014-09-26 0.11500 0.499349
2014-06-26 0.11500 0.646794
2014-03-27 0.11500 0.655271
2013-12-27 0.11000 0.558376
2013-09-26 0.11000 0.656325
2013-06-26 0.11000 0.754976
2013-03-26 0.11000 0.692259
2012-12-27 0.10000 0.747384
2012-09-26 0.10000 0.885740
2012-06-27 0.10000 0.880282
2012-03-28 0.10000 0.694444
2011-12-28 0.10000 0.763942
2011-09-28 0.10000 0.983284
2011-06-28 0.10000 0.628536
2011-03-29 0.10000 0.522193
2010-12-29 0.07500 0.408497
2010-09-28 0.07500 0.530035
2010-06-28 0.07500 0.539180
2010-03-29 0.07500 0.423729
2009-12-29 0.07500 0.420404
2009-09-28 0.07500 0.472292
2009-06-26 0.07500 0.483871
2009-03-27 0.10000 1.069519
2008-12-29 0.10000 0.963391
2008-09-26 0.10000 0.508647
2008-06-26 0.10000 0.264201
2008-03-27 0.05000 0.152369
2007-12-27 0.07500 0.250167
2007-09-26 0.07500 0.326087
2007-06-27 0.07500 0.366838
2007-03-28 0.07500 0.368279
2006-12-28 0.07500 0.452762
2006-09-27 0.07500 0.601805
2006-06-28 0.05000 0.340368
2006-03-29 0.05000 0.346081
2005-12-28 0.02500 0.281690
2005-09-28 0.02500 0.298686
2005-06-28 0.02500 0.378501
2005-03-29 0.02500 0.296296
2004-12-29 0.02500 0.259538
2004-09-28 0.01875 0.197368
2004-07-22 0.01875 0.241235
Additional Data
dividendRate 2.12
dividendYield 0.93
exDividendDate 2026-06-30
trailingAnnualDividendRate 2.03
trailingAnnualDividendYield 0.008887137
lastDividendValue 0.53
lastDividendDate 2026-06-30
dividendDate 2026-07-10

Info Dump

Attribute Value
52 Week Change 0.71460736
Address1 7,575 West Jefferson Boulevard
All Time High 288.74
All Time Low 2.0625
Ask 246.32
Ask Size 1
Audit Risk 4
Average Analyst Rating 2.0 - Buy
Average Daily Volume10 Day 1,262,690
Average Daily Volume3 Month 1,231,804
Average Volume 1,231,804
Average Volume10Days 1,262,690
Beta 1.542
Bid 223.35
Bid Size 1
Board Risk 4
Book Value 63.449
City Fort Wayne
Compensation As Of Epoch Date 1,767,139,200
Compensation Risk 5
Country United States
Crypto Tradeable 0
Currency USD
Current Price 234.14
Current Ratio 3.13
Custom Price Alert Confidence HIGH
Date Short Interest 1,782,777,600
Day High 237.14
Day Low 229.18
Debt To Equity 45.994
Display Name Steel Dynamics
Dividend Date 1,783,641,600
Dividend Rate 2.12
Dividend Yield 0.93
Earnings Call Timestamp End 1,784,664,000
Earnings Call Timestamp Start 1,784,664,000
Earnings Growth 0.931
Earnings Quarterly Growth 0.858
Earnings Timestamp 1,784,577,600
Earnings Timestamp End 1,784,577,600
Earnings Timestamp Start 1,784,577,600
Ebitda 2,315,760,128
Ebitda Margins 0.121800005
Enterprise To Ebitda 16.141
Enterprise To Revenue 1.966
Enterprise Value 37,378,789,376
Eps Current Year 16.39542
Eps Forward 18.81354
Eps Trailing Twelve Months 9.33
Esg Populated 0
Ex Dividend Date 1,782,777,600
Exchange NMS
Exchange Data Delayed By 0
Exchange Timezone Name America/New_York
Exchange Timezone Short Name EDT
Fifty Day Average 245.461
Fifty Day Average Change -11.320999
Fifty Day Average Change Percent -0.046121377
Fifty Two Week Change Percent 71.46074
Fifty Two Week High 288.74
Fifty Two Week High Change -54.59999
Fifty Two Week High Change Percent -0.18909743
Fifty Two Week Low 119.89
Fifty Two Week Low Change 114.25
Fifty Two Week Low Change Percent 0.95295686
Fifty Two Week Range 119.89 - 288.74
Financial Currency USD
First Trade Date Milliseconds 848,673,000,000
Five Year Avg Dividend Yield 1.4
Float Shares 134,442,365
Forward Eps 18.81354
Forward P E 12.445292
Free Cashflow -31,788,876
Full Exchange Name NasdaqGS
Full Time Employees 14,400
Gmt Off Set Milliseconds -14,400,000
Governance Epoch Date 1,782,864,000
Gross Margins 0.14038
Gross Profits 2,668,861,952
Has Pre Post Market Data 1
Held Percent Insiders 0.06526
Held Percent Institutions 0.87166
Implied Shares Outstanding 144,212,781
Industry Steel
Industry Disp Steel
Industry Key steel
Is Earnings Date Estimate 0
Language en-US
Last Dividend Date 1,782,777,600
Last Dividend Value 0.53
Last Fiscal Year End 1,767,139,200
Last Split Date 1,206,921,600
Last Split Factor 2:1
Long Business Summary Steel Dynamics, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a steel producer and metal recycler in the United States. It operates through four segments: Steel Operations, Metals Recycling Operations, Steel Fabrication Operations, and Aluminum Operations. The Steel Operations segment offers hot rolled, cold rolled, and coated steel products; parallel flange beams and channel sections, large unequal leg angles, and reinforcing steel bars, standard strength carbon, intermediate alloy hardness, and premium grade rail products; engineered special-bar-quality products, merchant-bar-quality products, and other engineered round steel bars; channels, angles, flats, merchant rounds, and reinforcing steel bars; and specialty shapes and light structural steel products. This segment also engages in turning, polishing, straightening, chamfering, precision saw-cutting, and heat treating of bar products. Its products are used in construction, automotive, manufacturing, transportation, heavy and agricultural equipment, energy, and pipe and tube markets. The Metals Recycling Operations segment is involved in the ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal processing, transportation, marketing, brokerage, and scrap management services. Its ferrous products include heavy melting steel, busheling, bundled scrap, shredded scrap, steel turnings, and cast-iron products; and nonferrous products comprise aluminum, brass, copper, stainless steel, and other nonferrous metals. The Steel Fabrication Operations segment produces steel non-residential building components, such as steel joists, joist girders, and steel deck products for non-residential steel fabricators, metal building companies, general construction contractors, developers, property owners, brokers, and governmental entities. The Aluminum Operations segment offers recycled aluminum flat rolled products. The company also exports its products. Steel Dynamics, Inc. was incorporated in 1993 and is headquartered in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Long Name Steel Dynamics, Inc.
Market us_market
Market Cap 33,765,980,160
Market State PRE
Max Age 86,400
Message Board Id finmb_34768
Most Recent Quarter 1,774,915,200
Net Income To Common 1,371,879,936
Next Fiscal Year End 1,798,675,200
Non Diluted Market Cap 32,941,083,436
Number Of Analyst Opinions 12
Open 229.18
Operating Cashflow 1,445,246,976
Operating Margins 0.103369996
Overall Risk 3
Payout Ratio 0.2176
Peg Ratio 11.95
Phone 260 969 3500
Pre Market Change 0.0
Pre Market Change Percent 0.0
Pre Market Price 234.14
Pre Market Time 1,784,016,009
Previous Close 228.42
Price Eps Current Year 14.280817
Price Hint 2
Price To Book 3.6902077
Price To Sales Trailing12 Months 1.7760124
Profit Margins 0.07216
Quick Ratio 1.204
Quote Source Name Nasdaq Real Time Price
Quote Type EQUITY
Recommendation Key buy
Recommendation Mean 2.0
Region US
Regular Market Change 5.72
Regular Market Change Percent 2.50416
Regular Market Day High 237.14
Regular Market Day Low 229.18
Regular Market Day Range 229.18 - 237.14
Regular Market Open 229.18
Regular Market Previous Close 228.42
Regular Market Price 234.14
Regular Market Time 1,783,972,800
Regular Market Volume 1,044,156
Return On Assets 0.06657
Return On Equity 0.15247
Revenue Growth 0.191
Revenue Per Share 129.83
Sand P52 Week Change 0.20847368
Sector Basic Materials
Sector Disp Basic Materials
Sector Key basic-materials
Share Holder Rights Risk 3
Shares Outstanding 144,212,781
Shares Percent Shares Out 0.0255
Shares Short 3,677,525
Shares Short Previous Month Date 1,780,012,800
Shares Short Prior Month 3,789,571
Short Name Steel Dynamics, Inc.
Short Percent Of Float 0.0321
Short Ratio 2.76
Source Interval 15
State IN
Symbol STLD
Target High Price 310.0
Target Low Price 221.0
Target Mean Price 271.83334
Target Median Price 267.5
Total Cash 556,526,976
Total Cash Per Share 3.859
Total Debt 4,200,793,088
Total Revenue 19,012,243,456
Tradeable 0
Trailing Annual Dividend Rate 2.03
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield 0.008887137
Trailing Eps 9.33
Trailing P E 25.095392
Trailing Peg Ratio None
Triggerable 1
Two Hundred Day Average 190.985
Two Hundred Day Average Change 43.155
Two Hundred Day Average Change Percent 0.22596015
Type Disp Equity
Volume 1,044,156
Website https://www.steeldynamics.com
Zip 46,804