NUE · Nucor Corp
Price
Snapshot
50 fields · last close| Market Cap | $58.15B |
| P/E | 24.94 |
| Float | 222.4M |
| Beta | 1.87 |
| Volatility | 46.8% |
| Exchange | NYSE |
| Sector | Metals & Mining |
| Cap tier | Large cap |
| Macro sensitivity | Very High |
| Clavix score | 75.9 |
| Price | 260.81 |
| Change | +1.76% |
| Prev Close | 256.29 |
| Open | 257.16 |
| Day Low | 255.32 |
| Day High | 263.87 |
| Avg Vol | 1 |
| Avg $ Vol | $273.0M |
| 52W High | 280.11 |
| 52W Low | 131.32 |
| 52W Pos | 87.0% |
| From High | −6.89% |
| From Low | +98.61% |
| Max DD 1Y | −18.43% |
| Spread | 0.10% |
| Liquidity | Normal |
| SMA 20 | +5.59% |
| SMA 50 | +2.71% |
| SMA 200 | +19.03% |
| RSI (14) | 56.5 |
| Vol 30D | 31.8% |
| Vol 90D | 35.8% |
| 1Y Range | 131–280 |
| Daily bars | 536 |
| Perf Week | +2.38% |
| Perf Month | −3.34% |
| Perf Quarter | +11.07% |
| Perf Half Y | +30.85% |
| Perf Year | +87.40% |
| Perf YTD | +53.96% |
| Prev Day | +1.76% |
| Clavix | B+ |
| Debt / Eq | 0.21 |
| Curr Ratio | 2.94 |
| Int Cover | 111.7× |
| FCF Margin | −0.6% |
| Rev Growth | +5.7% |
| Profit | Profitable |
| Leverage | Low |
| Sector rank | 2 / 23 |
What NUE does
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.
Clavix risk grade
regraded every trading dayNUE grades B+, 75.9 of 100. Steadiest on Macro Resilience (65), most exposed on Sector Resilience (59, mixed). 3 of the 4 weighted dimensions sit above the Metals & Mining median. Ranks 2 of 23 in Metals & Mining by Clavix score.
How rough the ride is
| NUE | Metals & Mining median | |
|---|---|---|
| Betavs the overall market · lower is steadier | 1.87 | 1.87 |
| Volatilityannualized | 46.8% | 46.8% |
| Max drawdown, past yearworst peak-to-trough fall | −18.4% | — |
| Typical daily movemedian absolute daily change | 1.28% | — |
| Days beyond ±3%of the last 252 sessions | 35 (14%) | — |
How its days are spread
Daily returns over the last 252 sessions in 1% bins. Moves beyond ±6% land in the end bins.
52-week range
The bar runs from the lowest to the highest close of the last 252 sessions; the marker is the latest close.
Drawdown from the 1-year peak
Percent below the running high over the last 12 months. Zero is a fresh high.
Market sensitivity
| NUE | Metals & Mining median | |
|---|---|---|
| Beta to the markethow much it swings with the S&P 500 · lower is safer | 1.87 | 1.87 |
| Macro sensitivityrate, dollar and credit exposure bucket | Very High | Very High 57% of 23 |
Where it sits on the macro scale
Low means rates, the dollar and credit spreads barely move it. Very High means they drive a large share of its swings. The counts are how many Metals & Mining names sit in each bucket.
Where it ranks in its sector
Rank by Clavix score within the sector. Right is the top of the sector.
Price performance
| NUE | |
|---|---|
| 1 week | +2.4% |
| 1 month | −3.3% |
| Year to date | +54.0% |
| 1 year | +87.4% |
Context for the rank, not itself a risk measure.
Recent coverage, scored
| NUE | |
|---|---|
| Articles scoredthe most recent scored coverage, up to 30 | 30 since 18 Sep |
| Average score0 most bearish, 100 most bullish | 54 |
| Bullish · bearisharticles above 60 · below 40 | 14 · 11 |
| Directionarticles whose tone is improving vs worsening | 14 ↑ 11 ↓ |
Where the article scores land
Each bar is a 10-point band of article scores. Below 40 reads bearish, above 60 bullish.
Balance sheet, against the sector
The shaded band is the middle half of the 23 Metals & Mining names Clavix covers; the tick is the sector median.
Growth
| NUE | |
|---|---|
| Revenue growthyear over year | +5.7% |
Financial Health is shown but does not count toward the grade. Why
0–100, higher is safer. The tick on each bar is the Metals & Mining median. Click a dimension for the evidence behind it. Financial Health is shown but does not count toward the grade.
Recent news
most recent scored articles · the chip is the article’s score · click to openThe article notes a 162.9% share price return over the past five years and references fresh investment plans, though the excerpt is cut off before details are given.
Nucor announced a $105 million investment to expand its Nucor Towers & Structures facility in Crawfordsville, Indiana, adding more than 120,000 square feet of automated manufacturing space and 100 new jobs paying an average of $87,500 per year. The expansion targets the company's role in supplying utility poles and related products for U.S. power transmission and distribution infrastructure.
Nucor is expanding its Indiana facility to add new production capacity for utility poles used in power transmission and distribution infrastructure across the United States, using advanced manufacturing technology. The project is also expected to create high-quality manufacturing jobs locally.
Analyst firm Wall Street Zen lowered its rating on Nucor from 'strong-buy' to 'buy' in a note issued Monday. Separately, Barclays raised its price target on the stock from $272 to $295.
Nucor is spending $105 million to expand utility pole production at its Indiana facility, adding automation technology and creating 100 jobs to meet rising electricity demand.
Nearest peers by size
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FNV | Franco-Nevada Corp | B | $65.92B | 31.55 | 2.33 | Compare |
| WPM | Wheaton Precious Metals Corp | C | $71.90B | 30.03 | 2.11 | Compare |
| AU | Anglogold Ashanti PLC | C- | $46.87B | 12.31 | 0.73 | Compare |
| KGC | Kinross Gold Corp | C | $40.12B | 8.93 | 3.54 | Compare |
| B | Barrick Mining Corp | C+ | $94.74B | 10.27 | 2.92 | Compare |
| STLD | Steel Dynamics Inc | B | $34.48B | 21.45 | 1.48 | Compare |
| FCX | Freeport-McMoRan Inc | C | $99.86B | 33.91 | 1.37 | Compare |
| TECK | Teck Resources Ltd | C+ | $31.70B | 35.69 | 1.00 | Compare |
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