NUE
Nucor
Materials · Steel · US
$254.39
Data: 2026-05-15
✓ ETHICAL PASS

NARROW MOAT
HIGH
Data Confidence: 100.0%
Key Metrics

How this company measures up on the fundamentals that matter

Market Cap
$51.7B
Total market value of the company
22.52
Premium valuation
14.59
Based on estimated future earnings — lower means cheaper
Rev Growth
+21.3%
Year-over-year revenue change
Profit Margin
6.8%
How much profit the company keeps from each dollar of revenue
12.3%
Return on equity — how efficiently it uses shareholder money
Analyst Target
$240.71
-5% from current price — median analyst estimate
Recommendation
BUY
Consensus view from 13 analysts covering this stock
About Nucor

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.

https://www.nucor.com

Country: United States Employees: 33,000 Industry: Steel
Ethical Screening

Five compliance checks based on AAOIFI standards — all must pass for ethical clearance

Business Activity
PASS
Core business does not involve prohibited activities
Debt Ratio
20.3% PASS
Debt must be below 33% of total assets
Cash Ratio
1.3% PASS
Interest-bearing cash below 33% of assets
Receivables
15.3% PASS
Receivables below 49% of assets
Revenue Purity
0.3% PASS
Non-compliant revenue below 5% — any excess requires purification
Valuation
$331.47
What our model estimates this business is worth per share
23.3%
Trading below fair value — margin of safety exists
Rating
OPPORTUNITY
Overall assessment combining ethics, valuation, and quality
98.3th
Ranks in the top 2% of our 13,571 screened universe
Ethical Score
87.2
Valuation Score
83.5
Quality Score
62.0
Combined
76.7

Trading at $227 against a fair value of $331, a 32% discount. Passes all ethical screens. Ranks better than 94% of screened stocks.

Quantitative Intelligence

Statistical analysis of price behaviour, risk, and market regime — independent of fundamental data

ACCUMULATION
Smart money appears to be building positions quietly
0.725
Good returns relative to risk taken
0.0635
Suggested allocation is meaningful — the edge justifies a position
0.568
Acceptable balance between returns and drawdown risk
Annual Return
21.5%
Historical annualised return based on price data
-37.9%
Largest peak-to-trough decline — the worst it has been
SIDEWAYS
Price consolidating — no clear directional bias
Days in State
246
How long the current regime has persisted — longer means more stable
Market Data

Trading characteristics and market positioning

1.88
Significantly more volatile than the market
52W High
$235.45
-8% below the year high
52W Low
$106.21
140% above the year low
Avg Volume
1,517,646
Average daily shares traded — higher means easier to buy and sell
2.9
Days it would take all short sellers to cover — higher means more crowded
Short % Float
2.7%
Low short interest — limited bearish positioning
1.0%
Annual dividend as a percentage of the share price
$10.08
Earnings per share over the last 12 months
Financial Health

Balance sheet strength and cash generation — the foundation of long-term value

0.32
Conservative use of debt — low financial risk
2.90
Strong balance sheet — comfortably covers short-term obligations
Quick Ratio
1.45
Like current ratio but excludes inventory — stricter test
Gross Margin
14.1%
Revenue left after cost of goods — higher means pricing power
Operating Margin
11.8%
Profit from core operations before interest and tax
$-384,100,000
Negative — the business is spending more than it generates
Revenue (TTM)
$34.2B
Total revenue over the last 12 months
Net Income
$2.3B
Profitable — the bottom line is positive
Analyst Coverage
Analysts
13
Target High
$275.00
Target Median
$240.71
Target Low
$138.17
Recent Insider Activity

SEC Form 4 filings — what company insiders are buying and selling

Date Insider Title Type Shares Value
2026-05-18 SPICER RANDY J. Officer 2,500 $562,500
2026-05-15 TOPALIAN LEON J Chief Executive Officer 52,000 $2,207,920
2026-05-15 TOPALIAN LEON J Chief Executive Officer 52,000 $11,839,779
2026-05-05 FORD BRADLEY Officer 2,240 $519,963
2026-05-04 BEHR ALLEN C. Officer 10,096 $2,282,467
2026-05-04 KELLER MICHAEL D Officer 4,554 $1,028,566
2026-05-01 NEEDHAM DANIEL R. Officer 7,739 $857,017
2026-05-01 NEEDHAM DANIEL R. Officer 12,888 $2,912,688
2026-05-01 HANNERS NOAH C Officer 6,472 $1,465,908
2026-04-30 SUMOSKI DAVID A Officer 33,068 $1,404,067
Source: SEC Form 4 filings via public data. View all insider activity at
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Data sourced from public filings and market feeds. Not financial advice. Updated: 2026-05-15

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