The Bid & Ask

Quotations, Dispatches, and the Daily Tape

Thursday, August 13, 2026

Subject of the day

NUE

Concerning the House

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.

United States · nucor.com

The Long Run

FY 2009–2025 · 17 years

LineLatestCAGRTrend
Revenue$32.49B+4.3%
Gross profit$2.00B+17.0%
Net income$1.74B+1.1%
Cash from ops$3.23B+8.7%
Quotation

$271.81

-0.14 (-0.1%)

52w hi$274.74
52w lo$130.57
Vol568.78K
As ofAug 12
The Verdict

Hold

Our score +0.40

Short+0.37
Medium+0.38
Long+0.51

computed 2026-08-12

By the Numbers

Nucor Corporation

Basic Materials · Steel

Market cap$61.90B
Enterprise value$67.62B
Trailing P/E21.68x
Forward P/E14.44x
EV / EBITDA11.90x
P / S (ttm)
Profit margin8.0%
Return on equity14.5%
Revenue growth+23.0%
Earnings growth+93.8%
Debt / equity30.51
Risk Metrics
Beta vs SPX1.16
Corr SPX0.52
Annual vol36.3%
Annual ret+37.9%
Sharpe1.04
Max DD-38.5%

Window: 504 trading days (504 obs)

Layer Breakdown
LayerRawContribution
Fundamental+0.40
Sector+0.04
Technical+0.29
Earnings+0.00
Sentiment+0.00

macro × 1.00 · 2026-08-12

Recent Sessions
DateOpenHighLowCloseVol
Aug 12$273.49$274.54$268.80$271.81568.78K
Aug 11$275.02$277.60$271.84$271.951.05M
Aug 10$273.00$276.45$270.72$274.611.09M
Aug 7$271.00$273.16$266.89$272.631.05M
Aug 6$274.52$275.09$269.95$272.001.25M