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Nucor Corp

NUE
136.070USD
-2.060-1.49%
Close 09/29, 16:00ETQuotes delayed by 15 min
31.68BMarket Cap
13.40P/E TTM

Nucor Corp

136.070
-2.060-1.49%
TradingKey Stock Score
Overall Financial Health
Valuation Dimensions
Earnings Forecast
Price Momentum
Institutional Confidence
Risk Assessment
Peer Comparison
TradingKey Stock Score
Overall Financial Health
Valuation Dimensions
Earnings Forecast
Price Momentum
Institutional Confidence
Risk Assessment
Peer Comparison

TradingKey Stock Score of Nucor Corp

Currency: USD Updated: 2025-09-26

Key Insights

The company's fundamentals are relatively healthy. Its valuation is considered fairly valued,and institutional recognition is very high. Over the past 30 days, multiple analysts have rated the company as a Buy. Despite a weak stock market performance, the company shows strong fundamentals and technicals. The stock price is trading sideways between the support and resistance levels, making it suitable for range-bound swing trading.

Nucor Corp's Score

Industry at a Glance

Industry Ranking
40 / 141
Overall Ranking
154 / 4714
Industry
Metals & Mining

Support & Resistance

No Data

Score Analysis

Current score
Previous score

Analyst Rating

Based on 17 analysts
Buy
Current Rating
156.781
Target Price
+13.50%
Upside Space
Data disclaimer: Analyst ratings and target prices are provided by LSEG for informational purposes only and do not constitute investment advice.

Nucor Corp Highlights

StrengthsRisks
Nucor Corporation is a manufacturer of steel and steel products, with operating facilities in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Its segments include steel mills, steel products, raw materials, and Nucor Data Systems. The Steel Mills segment produces sheet steel (hot-rolled, cold-rolled and galvanized), plate steel, structural steel (wide-flange beams, beam blanks, H-piling, and sheet piling) and bar steel (blooms, billets, concrete reinforcing bar, merchant bar and engineered special bar quality. The Steel products segment produces steel joists and joist girders, steel deck, galvanized torque tubes used in solar arrays, hollow structural section (HSS) steel tubing, electrical conduit, fabricated concrete reinforcing steel, cold finished steel, and steel fasteners. The Raw materials segment produces direct reduced iron (DRI), brokers ferrous and nonferrous metals, and pig iron. Nucor Data Systems serves its customers in the data center infrastructure industry.
High Dividend
The company is a high dividend payer, with the latest dividend payout ratio of 25.67%.
Stable Dividend
The company has regularly paid dividends over the past 5 years, with the latest dividend payout ratio of 25.67%.
Undervalued
The company’s latest PB is 1.56, at a low 3-year percentile range.
Institutional Selling
The latest institutional holdings are 179.26M shares, decreasing 5.65% quarter-over-quarter.
Held by The Vanguard
Star Investor The Vanguard holds 29.06M shares of this stock.
Lower Market Activity
The company has less investor interest, with a 20-day turnover ratio of -0.34.

Financial Health

Currency: USD Updated: 2025-09-26

The company's current financial score is 7.26, which is higher than the Metals & Mining industry's average of 7.19. Its financial status is stable, and its operating efficiency is average. Its latest quarterly revenue reached 8.46B, representing a year-over-year increase of 4.69%, while its net profit experienced a year-over-year increase of 6.57%.

Score

Industry at a Glance

Previous score
7.26
Change
0

Financials

7.26

Key Metrics

Cash and cash equivalents
Total assets
Total liabilities
Free cash flow
No Data

Quality of Earnings

7.26

Operational Efficiency

7.26

Growth Potential

7.26

Shareholder Returns

7.26

Nucor Corp's Company Valuation

Currency: USD Updated: 2025-09-26

The company’s current valuation score is 6.48, which is lower than the Metals & Mining industry's average of 7.43. Its current P/E ratio is 24.68, which is 8.83% below the recent high of 26.86 and 85.42% above the recent low of 3.60.

Score

Industry at a Glance

Previous score
1.20
Change
5.28

Valuation Dimensions

P/E
P/B
P/S
P/CF
Industry Ranking 40/141
No Data

Earnings Forecast

Currency: USD Updated: 2025-09-26

The company’s current earnings forecast score is 8.00, which is higher than the Metals & Mining industry's average of 7.61. The average price target for Nucor Corp is 155.00, with a high of 174.00 and a low of 140.00.

Score

Industry at a Glance

Previous score
8.00
Change
0

Support & Resistance

No Data

Analyst Rating

Based on 17 analysts
Buy
Current Rating
156.781
Target Price
+13.50%
Upside Space
Strong Buy
Buy
Hold
Sell
Strong Sell

Peer Comparison

26
Total
4
Median
6
Average
Company name
Ratings
Analysts
Nucor Corp
NUE
17
Vale SA
VALE
23
Cleveland-Cliffs Inc
CLF
15
Steel Dynamics Inc
STLD
15
Commercial Metals Co
CMC
13
Ternium SA
TX
12
1
2
3
4
5

Financial Forecasting

EPS
Revenue
Net Profit
EBIT
No Data

Data disclaimer: Analyst ratings and target prices are provided by LSEG for informational purposes only and do not constitute investment advice.

Price Momentum

Currency: USD Updated: 2025-09-26

The company’s current price momentum score is 6.81, which is lower than the Metals & Mining industry's average of 8.51. Sideways: Currently, the stock price is trading between the resistance level at 148.61 and the support level at 129.79, making it suitable for range-bound swing trading.

Score

Industry at a Glance

Previous score
6.54
Change
0.27

Support & Resistance

No Data

Indicators

The Indicators feature provides value and direction analysis for various instruments under a selection of technical indicators, together with a technical summary.

This feature includes nine of the commonly used technical indicators: MACD, RSI, KDJ, StochRSI, ATR, CCI, WR, TRIX and MA. You may also adjust the timeframe depending on your needs.

Please note that technical analysis is only part of investment reference, and there is no absolute standard for using numerical values to assess direction. The results are for reference only, and we are not responsible for the accuracy of the indicator calculations and summaries.

Indicators
Sell(4)
Neutral(3)
Buy(0)
Indicators
Value
Direction
MACD(12,26,9)
-1.086
Sell
RSI(14)
42.381
Neutral
STOCH(KDJ)(9,3,3)
30.589
Neutral
ATR(14)
3.635
High Vlolatility
CCI(14)
-38.157
Neutral
Williams %R
71.335
Sell
TRIX(12,20)
-0.273
Sell
StochRSI(14)
55.832
Sell
Moving Average
Sell(4)
Neutral(0)
Buy(2)
Indicators
Value
Direction
MA5
136.126
Sell
MA10
136.864
Sell
MA20
140.302
Sell
MA50
142.242
Sell
MA100
133.340
Buy
MA200
128.666
Buy

Institutional Confidence

Currency: USD Updated: 2025-09-26

The company’s current institutional recognition score is 7.00, which is higher than the Metals & Mining industry's average of 5.57. The latest institutional shareholding proportion is 77.69%, representing a quarter-over-quarter decrease of 0.42%. The largest institutional shareholder is The Vanguard, holding a total of 29.06M shares, representing 12.66% of shares outstanding, with 5.80% increase in holdings.

Score

Industry at a Glance

Previous score
7.00
Change
0

Institutional Shareholding

No Data

Shareholder Activity

Name
Shares Held
Chg %
The Vanguard Group, Inc.
Star Investors
28.85M
+2.67%
State Farm Insurance Companies
25.11M
-0.06%
State Street Global Advisors (US)
12.13M
+3.85%
BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A.
12.73M
-1.28%
Geode Capital Management, L.L.C.
5.99M
+0.36%
Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM)
3.41M
+22.07%
Dimensional Fund Advisors, L.P.
3.45M
-2.43%
BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Ltd.
2.16M
+3.22%
1
2

Risk Assessment

Currency: USD Updated: 2025-09-26

The company’s current risk assessment score is 8.55, which is higher than the Metals & Mining industry's average of 5.78. The company's beta value is 1.71. This indicates that the stock tends to outperform the index during upward trending markets but experiences larger declines during downward trending markets.

Score

Industry at a Glance

Previous score
4.57
Change
3.98
Beta vs S&P 500 index
1.71
VaR
+3.64%
240-Day Maximum Drawdown
+38.46%
240-Day Volatility
+42.51%

Return

Best Daily Return
60 days
+3.54%
120 days
+11.40%
5 years
+15.99%
Worst Daily Return
60 days
-5.95%
120 days
-6.06%
5 years
-11.31%
Sharpe Ratio
60 days
+0.57
120 days
+1.45
5 years
+0.72

Risk Assessment

Maximum Drawdown
240 days
+38.46%
3 years
+48.64%
5 years
+48.64%
Return-to-Drawdown Ratio
240 days
-0.22
3 years
-0.00
5 years
+0.59
Skewness
240 days
+0.97
3 years
+0.43
5 years
+0.15

Volatility

Realised Volatility
240 days
+42.51%
5 years
+39.50%
Standardised True Range
240 days
+3.15%
5 years
+3.19%
Downside Risk-Adjusted Return
120 days
+238.24%
240 days
+238.24%
Maximum Daily Upside Volatility
60 days
+24.77%
Maximum Daily Downside Volatility
60 days
+23.80%

Liquidity

Average Turnover Rate
60 days
+0.78%
120 days
+0.96%
5 years
--
Turnover Deviation
20 days
-34.36%
60 days
-0.45%
120 days
+21.44%

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