Nucor (NUE)
Materials · Steel Manufacturing & Recycling
North America's largest recycler turning scrap steel into commodity and specialty steel products for construction, automotive, and industrial markets.
What Nucor does
Nucor Corporation manufactures steel and steel products primarily from scrap steel using electric arc furnaces, operating across three segments: steel mills, steel products, and raw materials. The company is North America's largest recycler, processing approximately 20 million gross tons of scrap steel annually to produce sheet steel, plate steel, structural steel, bar steel, and various fabricated products. Nucor sells its products through in-house sales forces and internal distribution companies to steel service centers, fabricators, and manufacturers throughout North America, with operations also including international trading and sales companies.
Themes: ["Steel manufacturing","Scrap steel recycling","Electric arc furnace technology","Construction and infrastructure","Automotive and durable goods","North American manufacturing","Specialty bar quality (SBQ) steel","Raw materials and steel products"]
Fundamentals
- Price$222.28 as of 2026-07-09 close
- Market cap$51.4B as of 2026-07-10
- 1-year return+59.1% as of 2026-07-09 close
- P/E22.04 as of 2026-07-10
- Net margin+6.8% as of 2026-07-10
- Gross margin+14.0% as of 2026-07-10
- ROE+11.2% as of 2026-07-10
- Debt / equity0.33 as of 2026-07-10
- Revenue growth (YoY)+12.3% as of 2026-07-10
- Revenue CAGR (3y)-7.8% SEC XBRL
- Beta1.93 as of 2026-07-10
Dividend: yield +1.0%; 5-year non-decreasing per-share dividend streak (SEC XBRL).
Key risks (from latest filing)
["Commodity price volatility and scrap steel input cost fluctuations affecting margins and profitability","Economic sensitivity to nonresidential construction, durable goods, and capital spending which drive end-use markets for steel products","Competitive pressure in commodity steel markets and exposure to cyclical business conditions affecting demand and pricing power"]
Fundamentals: Finnhub, as of 2026-07-10. Filings: SEC EDGAR. Prices are delayed daily-close data.
Last updated 2026-07-09.
Informational only — NOT financial advice. All figures are delayed daily-close data from SEC EDGAR & Finnhub, shown with their as-of date.