Nucor Corporation (NUE) Stock Analysis
A live, multi-source view of Nucor Corporation (NUE): real-time price, technical indicators, Wall Street analyst consensus, recent news sentiment and social buzz — aggregated into one place so you can size up the stock at a glance.
About Nucor Corporation
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.
Sector: Basic Materials · Industry: Steel · United States · 33,000 employees · nucor.com
Key statistics · as of 2026-09-05
As of 2026-09-05, Nucor Corporation (NUE) had a market capitalization of $59.23B, a trailing P/E of 20.8 (forward 13.7), a dividend yield of 0.85% and a beta of 1.88; the shares traded in a 52-week range of $131.32 – $280.11 (81.3% over the year).
- Market cap
- $59.23B
- Enterprise value
- $64.79B
- Trailing P/E
- 20.8
- Forward P/E
- 13.7
- PEG ratio
- 5.21
- Price / book
- 2.68
- EPS (trailing)
- $12.53
- EPS (forward)
- $19.05
- Dividend yield
- 0.85%
- Payout ratio
- 17.8%
- Ex-dividend date
- 2026-06-30
- 52-week range
- $131.32 – $280.11
- 52-week change
- 81.3%
- Beta
- 1.88
- Average volume
- 1.5M
- Shares outstanding
- 226.9M
- Short % of float
- 2.06%
- Profit margin
- 8.0%
Fundamental figures are recorded once every few days, dated above; they are not live and can differ from the interactive tiles.
Last universe scan · 2026-09-11
In RapidTradeView’s 2026-09-11 scan of the US universe, Nucor Corporation (NUE) last closed at $255.46 (the last completed close before that scan).
Technicals at the scan: RSI 50 (neutral territory), price -0.2% versus its 20-day average, 20-day versus 50-day average spread +2.3%, MACD histogram 0.01.
Sentiment inputs: 86% of recent Finnhub-scored headlines read bullish; analyst consensus score 75/100.
Next scheduled company event: in 45 days from the scan date.
Scan values are recorded once per trading day and are not live quotes; the interactive tiles above update in real time.
Smart Money · last 90 days
Members of Congress disclosed 1 buy and 0 sells of NUE; corporate insiders filed 0 buys and 6 sells (5 distinct filers, latest disclosure 2026-08-19). Filings arrive days to weeks after the trade and are not a live signal. Most active filers: Leon J. Topalian (0B/2S), Allen C. Behr (0B/2S), Thomas J. Batterbee (0B/1S), Stephen D. Laxton (0B/1S), Alan Armstrong (1B/0S). Who is trading what
RapidTradeView pick record
NUE has not appeared in the daily picks yet. Full scoreboard
What this page covers
RapidTradeView pulls Nucor Corporation (NUE) data from multiple independent sources and combines it into a single dashboard. Below the summary you’ll find live, interactive tiles for each of the following:
- Price & chart — real-time quote with pre/post-market moves and a line or candlestick chart.
- Technical indicators — RSI, MACD, moving averages, Bollinger Bands, volume and support/resistance, distilled into one overall signal.
- Analyst consensus — the buy/hold/sell breakdown and price targets published by Wall Street analysts.
- News sentiment — recent headlines, each scored for tone so the prevailing narrative is obvious.
- Earnings — current EPS, year-over-year change and the next scheduled earnings date.
- Social buzz — Reddit mention volume and StockTwits sentiment for the retail-trader angle.
How to read the signals
No single indicator tells the whole story. A bullish technical reading paired with a cautious analyst consensus, or strong social buzz against weak earnings, is exactly the kind of tension this view is built to surface. RapidTradeView’s signals are generated by deterministic, statistical models — they describe what the data is doing, they are not personalised recommendations to buy or sell NUE.
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