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Nucor Corporation (NUE)

NYSE / Basic Materials / Steel

Share price

254.69 USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026

Market capitalisation

57.78B USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026
Market data
Oct 15, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2025, filed Feb 25, 2026
Ratios computed
Oct 15, 2026
Filed years
10, FY2016 to FY2025
Four kinds of sourceSEC filingCompany statementMarket dataComputedWhat each means
SEC filingFiled with the SEC
Read from a statement the company filed with the SEC, with the form, fiscal year, filing date and accession beside it.
Company statementCompany statement
What the company says about itself in a filing: an 8-K item, the auditor, its own segment names.
Market dataMarket data
Prices, market value and what analysts publish, with the date they are as of.
ComputedComputed by ValueScreener
Worked out by us from the other three, with the inputs and the formula one press away. A score is a research output, not a rating or a recommendation.
Reading

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Overview

What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Four questions, at a glance

Quality

Return on invested capital, after tax

8.3% Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

33.82x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

-0.3% Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2016 Revenue: 16.21B USDFY2016 Net income: 796.3M USDFY2017 Revenue: 20.25B USDFY2017 Net income: 1.32B USDFY2018 Revenue: 25.07B USDFY2018 Net income: 2.36B USDFY2019 Revenue: 22.59B USDFY2019 Net income: 1.27B USDFY2020 Revenue: 20.14B USDFY2020 Net income: 721.5M USDFY2021 Revenue: 36.48B USDFY2021 Net income: 6.83B USDFY2022 Revenue: 41.51B USDFY2022 Net income: 7.61B USDFY2023 Revenue: 34.71B USDFY2023 Net income: 4.53B USDFY2024 Revenue: 30.73B USDFY2024 Net income: 2.03B USDFY2025 Revenue: 32.49B USDFY2025 Net income: 1.74B USD
Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Named tests met
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The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 33.82x at the close of 2026-10-15 on FY2025 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits between 25.00x and 40.00x.

Today, against the Basic Materials sector (124 companies), 33.82x sits at the 73rd percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 15.03x to 34.97x.

Is it good

Return on invested capital was 8.3% in FY2025, in the band labelled "Around the cost of capital" (8.0% to 12.0%), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data.

Today, against the Basic Materials sector (99 companies), 8.3% sits at the 53rd percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 1.5% to 12.9%.

Is it safe

Debt to equity was 0.36 in FY2025, in the band labelled "Conservative" (below 0.50), on lines anchored on Graham's defensive-investor criteria, suggesting a balance sheet that relies little on borrowing.

Today, against the Basic Materials sector (146 companies), 0.36 sits at the 42nd percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 0.18 to 0.89.

Year by year against peers
Whether Nucor Corporation's return on invested capital stayed above the median of the Basic Materials sector, year by year. (FY2021 to FY2025, 5 fiscal years of Nucor Corporation with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Nucor Corporation's return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 filed years of Nucor Corporation)
What could explain it
What in Nucor Corporation's filed statements could explain the movements. (5 readings drawn from the statement lines Nucor Corporation filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Nucor Corporation, and where in its filings. (8 questions for Nucor Corporation)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Nucor Corporation's returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (13 of sixteen figures read for Nucor Corporation)

These are NUE’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.

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What changed

The newest filing, what it moved, and when the next one is due.

SEC filingCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are the FY2025 annual report: 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-071575.

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Quality

The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.

SEC filingComputed

Nucor Corporation: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax8.3% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-071575
Return on equity8.3% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-071575
Return on capital employed, pre-tax
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-071575
Return on assets5.0% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-071575
Gross margin11.9% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-071575
Operating margin
Why n/a

No operating income line is filed for this year.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-071575
Net margin5.4% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-071575
NUE 5.4%
STLD 6.5%MT 5.1%RS 5.2%TX 2.7%PKX 1.5%
1.5%6.5%
Net margin: NUE against the 5 companies named under Valuation context, each as filed for its own latest year. Placement only: no average is drawn.

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Financial strength

What it owes against what it owns, and whether it can meet what falls due.

SEC filingComputedCompany statement

Nucor Corporation: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity0.36 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-071575
Current ratio2.94 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-071575
Quick ratio1.57 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-071575
Interest coverage
Why n/a

No operating income line is filed for this year.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-071575
Altman Z-score
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-071575
Net debt4.78B ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-071575
Total assets 35.10BTotal liabilities 12.98BShareholders' equity 20.94BOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What Nucor Corporation owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2025, from the balance sheet it filed (10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-071575).

Nucor Corporation: balance sheet position
Total assets35.10B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026
Total liabilities12.98B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026
Shareholders' equity20.94B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026
Cash2.70B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026
Total debt7.48B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026
Net debt4.78B
Current ratio2.94
Debt to equity0.36
  • Interest cover: FY2025: No operating income line is filed for this year.

Read from the filed balance sheet for each year, with the income statement of the same year supplying operating profit where a ratio needs it. Nothing here is a view on whether this company is sound.

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Valuation context

What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Nucor Corporation: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings33.82x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-071575
P/E on trailing twelve months20.34x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book2.81x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-071575
Price to sales1.81x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-071575
Enterprise value to EBIT23.40x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-071575
Enterprise value to EBITDA
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-071575
Price to earnings over growth1.30 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-071575
Diluted earnings per share7.52 USD FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-071575
Graham number123.92 USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-071575

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value NUE on your own assumptions in the DCF workbench, starting from the filed figures.

Its own record, and companies like it

Valuation

What the market charges for Nucor Corporation today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

Nucor Corporation: valuation
Share price254.69 USD
Market capitalisation57.78B USD
Enterprise value to EBITDAn/a
Graham number123.92 USD
Diluted earnings per share, FY20257.52 USD

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months, a different basis from the fiscal-year P/E above, since Aug 9, 2017: low 3.19x, median 10.09x, high 44.70x, latest 20.34x. 2,309 trading days with a meaningful ratio. Each close over the trailing twelve months of earnings as known that day: a quarter counts from the day it was filed.

Companies like Nucor Corporation

  1. Steel Dynamics, Inc. (STLD)Market cap 34.51B USD
  2. ArcelorMittal S.A. (MT)Market cap 47.96B USD
  3. Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. (RS)Market cap 20.76B USD
  4. Ternium S.A. (TX)Market cap 11.17B USD
  5. POSCO Holdings Inc. (PKX)Market cap 16.70B USD

Same industry (Steel) and size band (Large, 10B to 200B), nearest in market value, net margin and current ratio. Each of those counts equally, by how many of the companies considered sit between the two on it. Closest first: the order is likeness and nothing else.

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Cash generation

Whether profit arrives as cash, and what is paid back to shareholders.

SEC filingComputed

Nucor Corporation: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield-0.3% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-071575
Free cash flow-188.0M USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-071575
Free cash flow margin-0.6% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-071575
Dividend yield0.9% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-071575
Payout ratio29.4% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-071575
FY2016 Free cash flow: 1.15B USDFY2016 Net income: 796.3M USDFY2017 Free cash flow: 606.8M USDFY2017 Net income: 1.32B USDFY2018 Free cash flow: 1.41B USDFY2018 Net income: 2.36B USDFY2019 Free cash flow: 1.33B USDFY2019 Net income: 1.27B USDFY2020 Free cash flow: 1.15B USDFY2020 Net income: 721.5M USDFY2021 Free cash flow: 4.61B USDFY2021 Net income: 6.83B USDFY2022 Free cash flow: 8.12B USDFY2022 Net income: 7.61B USDFY2023 Free cash flow: 4.90B USDFY2023 Net income: 4.53B USDFY2024 Free cash flow: 806.0M USDFY2024 Net income: 2.03B USDFY2025 Free cash flow: -188.0M USDFY2025 Net income: 1.74B USD
Free cash flow Net incomeProfit that arrives as cash stands level with net income; a gap year after year is worth reading about.

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Filings

Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.

SEC filingMarket data

The filed figures

Computed from the accounts this company filed with the SEC and, in a ratio with a price in it, the last close, dated on this page. Every filed figure below carries the fiscal year and the filing date its accounts were read from, and every blank carries the reason it is blank. Nothing here is a view on this company.

Nucor Corporation: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
33.82xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
2.81xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
23.40xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
-0.3%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
8.3%FY2025Feb 25, 2026
0.9%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
0.36FY2025Feb 25, 2026
2.94FY2025Feb 25, 2026
1.81xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
1.30FY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/a We hold no figure here and no stored reason for its absence. The gap is ours, not the company's.
-2.25FY2025Feb 25, 2026
6/9FY2025Feb 25, 2026

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2025, the newest full year on file. 10 filed fiscal years on record, FY2016 to FY2025, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 15, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 15, 2026. Two facts, because a recompute is not a fresh quote.

The year and the filing date name the statement each figure’s accounts are read from, and they stand even where the figure itself could not be computed: the line beneath a blank says what that statement did not carry. A figure’s name opens its formula and the filings behind it; a statement that names no SEC filing has no filing date, and reads n/a.

Ten years of filed figures, year by year

Ten years of filed figures

10 filed fiscal years, FY2016 to FY2025, read from the annual reports Nucor Corporation filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in USD, as filed.

Nucor Corporation: revenue, earnings, free cash flow and returns, by fiscal year, with the filing each year was read from
YearRevenueOperating incomeNet incomeEPS, dilutedFree cash flowOperating marginReturn on equityFiling
FY202532.49B2.74B1.74B7.52-188.0Mn/a8.3%10-K, Feb 25, 20260001193125-26-071575
FY202430.73B3.13B2.03B8.46806.0Mn/a10.0%10-K, Feb 27, 20250000950170-25-028427
FY202334.71B6.52B4.53B18.004.90Bn/a21.6%10-K, Feb 27, 20240000950170-24-021195
FY202241.51B10.46B7.61B28.798.12Bn/a41.3%10-K, Mar 1, 20230001564590-23-002793
FY202136.48B9.36B6.83B23.164.61Bn/a48.7%10-K, Feb 28, 20220001564590-22-007679
FY202020.14B1.00B721.5M2.361.15Bn/a6.7%10-K, Feb 26, 20210001564590-21-009503
FY201922.59B1.94B1.27B4.141.33Bn/a12.3%10-K, Feb 28, 20200001564590-20-007794
FY201825.07B3.39B2.36B7.421.41Bn/a24.1%10-K, Feb 28, 20190001193125-19-057744
FY201720.25B1.94B1.32B4.10606.8Mn/a15.1%10-K, Feb 28, 20180001193125-18-064018
FY201616.21B1.48B796.3M2.481.15Bn/a10.1%10-K, Feb 28, 20170001193125-17-062124
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 8.0%
  • Earnings, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 9.1%
  • Earnings per share, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 13.1%
  • Free cash flow: Free cash flow was not positive in both 2016 and 2025, so a compound rate across the window is not defined. Both figures are in the table.

Every figure in this section is a line of a filed annual statement or a ratio of two of them. Nothing here is estimated or smoothed. Earnings per share filed before a share split are put on today's share count, and say so. Nothing here is a verdict on the company.

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Risks and guardrails

The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.

ComputedCompany statement

Nucor Corporation: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-2.25 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-071575
Piotroski F-score6/9 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001193125-26-071575
Named tests met0 of 30 Computed
Beta1.27 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 0 met, 28 not met, 2 we could not complete. Counts, never a score: a single figure would have to decide that meeting one investor’s criteria and meeting another’s are worth the same.

Which tests, by name(all 30)
Meets
None of the named tests.
Does not
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Deep value; Large cap, low P/E; Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); High returns and growth; Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); High yield, low payout; Dividends and buybacks; Low beta, profitable; ROIC at or above WACC; Near the 52-week low; Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); High returns, low debt; Owner earnings yield; High return on tangibles; Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Cash-covered dividend; Tangible book or below; Cash-flow yield and ROIC; Clean books, high ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman); Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman); Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff)
Not measured
EV/EBITDA and coverage; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman). A test with a figure we could not read is incomplete, never met and never failed.
Figures we could not read(3)
  • Altman Z-Score: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • EV/EBITDA: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Interest Coverage: No operating income line is filed for this year.

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Declared positions

Whether anybody here owns this company.

Positions declared by the founder: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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What this cannot tell you

  • 3 figures could not be read on this company: Altman Z-Score, EV/EBITDA, Interest Coverage. 2 named tests come back incomplete because of them, which is neither met nor missed.

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