Nucor (NUO) Stock Price & Analysis
NUO Stock Chart & Stats
- Day’s Range
- EUR 242.60 - EUR 256.70
- 52-Week Range
- EUR 122.06 - EUR 256.70
- Previous Close
- EUR 243.20
- Volume
- N/A
- Average Volume (3M)
- 30
- Market Cap
- EUR 55.56B
- Enterprise Value
- EUR 59.23B
- Total Cash (Recent Filing)
- EUR 3.64B
- Total Debt (Recent Filing)
- EUR 7.09B
- Price to Earnings (P/E)
- 17.6
- Beta
- 0.48
- Next Earnings
- Feb 01, 2027 (Est.)
- EPS Estimate
- 5.22
- Next Dividend Ex-Date
- N/A
- Dividend Yield
- 0.78%
Bulls Say, Bears Say
Bulls Say
Record Shipments And Broad Demand
Record shipments across successive quarters indicate strong customer demand and effective mill execution. Higher volumes support operating leverage, reinforce Nucor’s domestic market position, and provide a durable foundation for earnings as infrastructure, manufacturing, energy, and construction activity expands.
Strong Balance Sheet And Liquidity
Conservative leverage and substantial liquidity give Nucor resilience through steel cycles while preserving capacity to fund growth projects and shareholder returns. The company’s highest North American steel credit ratings further support financial flexibility and reduce reliance on external financing.
Capacity Expansion And Contracted Growth
A growing backlog supported by multi-year utility agreements improves visibility for downstream growth and reduces reliance on spot steel demand alone. Expanded towers, structures, galvanizing, and sheet capacity should broaden Nucor’s product mix and support earnings beyond the current cycle.
Bears Say
Steel Earnings Remain Cyclical
Nucor’s profitability remains exposed to steel prices, demand conditions, and mill utilization, so strong current results may not persist through a weaker cycle. This volatility can make earnings and returns less predictable even when the company maintains solid operating margins.
Uneven Cash Conversion
The gap between earnings and free cash flow indicates that working-capital needs and capital spending can absorb a meaningful portion of profits. Material year-to-year swings in cash generation could constrain flexibility during downturns or raise the cost of sustaining the investment program.
Expansion Carries Startup-cost And Ramp Risk
Large growth projects may contribute below their potential while facilities ramp and customers complete qualifications. Elevated startup costs can weigh on near-term margins and cash flow, while delayed automotive volumes postpone the payoff from newly installed capacity.
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Company Description
Nucor
Nucor Corporation is a prominent producer and distributor of steel and diverse steel-related products. Within its Steel Mills division, the company manufactures a comprehensive range of steel goods. These include various sheet steel types like hot-rolled, cold-rolled, and galvanized, alongside plate steel. It also produces structural components such as wide-flange beams, beam blanks, H-piling, and sheet piling. Furthermore, this segment supplies bar steel products, encompassing blooms, billets, concrete reinforcing bars, merchant bars, and specialized bar quality items. Beyond manufacturing, Nucor's steel mills are involved in steel trading and the distribution of rebar. Its clientele primarily consists of steel service centers, fabricators, and manufacturers across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The Steel Products segment provides an array of manufactured steel goods, such as hollow structural section tubing, electrical conduits, steel racking, joists and girders, steel decks, and fabricated concrete reinforcing steel. It also supplies cold finished steel, fasteners, complete metal building systems, insulated metal panels, steel grating, expanded metal, and various wire and wire mesh products. These offerings are largely directed towards nonresidential construction projects. Additionally, this segment manages a piling distribution operation. Nucor's Raw Materials division is responsible for producing direct reduced iron (DRI). It also acts as a broker for ferrous and nonferrous metals, pig iron, hot briquetted iron (HBI), and direct reduced iron (DRI). This segment supplies ferro-alloys, processes both ferrous and nonferrous scrap metals, and undertakes natural gas drilling activities. Its ferrous scrap is supplied to electric arc furnace steel mills and foundries for their manufacturing processes. Meanwhile, nonferrous scrap metal is sold to aluminum can manufacturers, secondary aluminum smelters, steel mills, various other processors, and direct consumers of diverse nonferrous metals. The corporation caters to a wide range of industries including agriculture, automotive, construction, energy and transmission, oil and gas, heavy equipment, infrastructure, and transportation. Sales are conducted via an in-house sales team and through the company's internal distribution and trading enterprises. Established in 1958, Nucor Corporation has its headquarters situated in Charlotte, North Carolina.
- Sector
- Basicmaterials
- Industry
- Steel
- CEO
- Leon J. Topalian
- Employees
- 33,000
- Website
- www.nucor.com
- Address
- 1915 Rexford Road, Charlotte, NC, 28211, US
Nucor (NUO) Earnings & Revenues
NUO Company Deck
NUO Earnings Call
Earnings Call SentimentPositive
The call was strongly positive, led by the strongest quarter in more than three years, record steel mill shipments, expanding margins in steel products, robust free cash flow, growing contributions from recent investments, durable demand across multiple end markets, and an optimistic 2027 outlook. Offsetting factors included lower raw materials earnings, higher conversion and startup costs, seasonal fourth-quarter shipment pressure, rising recent imports, and the timing of automotive qualifications. The positive operational, financial, and market commentary significantly outweighed the stated challenges.
View all DE:NUO earnings summariesNUO Net sales Breakdown
- 61.56% Steel mills
- 31.78% Steel products
- 6.66% Raw materials
NUO Stock 12 Month Forecast
Average Price Target
Technical Analysis
Overall Consensus
| Indicator | Bullish | Neutral | Bearish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall Consensus | 15 | 2 | 5 |
| Technical Analysis | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| Moving Averages | 12 | 0 | 0 |
