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NUCOR CORP NUE
NUCOR CORP (NUE) earns a Piotroski F-score of 6/9 (mixed financial health). It pays a dividend yielding 0.94% (safety: safe). FY2025 revenue was $32.5B at a 5.4% net margin.
Quality score trend · recomputed for each fiscal year
Each year's score is computed from that year's filing — a rising Piotroski F or Altman Z″ means improving financial health, a fall is worth a look.
Beneish M-score: -2.5 — low (below −2.22 — no manipulation red flag) . A statistical screen for earnings manipulation, not proof — and it doesn't apply to most banks/insurers.
Analyst price target
Recent analyst actions
| Date | Firm | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-29 | Wells Fargo | Overweight (main) |
| 2026-07-29 | BMO Capital | Outperform (main) |
| 2026-07-29 | Barclays | Overweight (main) |
| 2026-07-28 | UBS | Neutral (main) |
| 2026-07-16 | Barclays | Overweight (main) |
| 2026-07-09 | B of A Securities | Buy (main) |
Wall Street analyst consensus — a sentiment gauge, not our scoring.
Forward estimates · earnings calendar →
Consensus analyst estimates and scheduled dates — forward-looking, may change.
Smart money · insiders, last 12 months
Open-market insider purchases minus sells (SEC Form 4) — real buying with their own money is a bullish “smart money” signal; grants and option exercises are excluded.
How it ranks in Manufacturing · percentile among 1957 companies
Percentile vs other Manufacturing companies we cover — e.g. “stronger than 90%” means only 10% score higher on that measure.
Piotroski F breakdown · 6/9 tests passed
- Positive return on assets
- Positive operating cash flow
- Rising ROA
- Cash flow exceeds net income
- Lower long-term debt
- Rising current ratio
- No share dilution
- Rising gross margin
- Rising asset turnover
Sector peers · similar-size Manufacturing companies compare side by side →
| Ticker | Company | Piotroski F | Altman Z″ | P / E | Revenue growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NUE | NUCOR CORP | 6/9 | — | 31.3 | +5.7% |
| STLD | STEEL DYNAMICS INC | 5/9 | 6.72 | 29.9 | +3.6% |
| CMC | COMMERCIAL METALS Co | 4/9 | — | 90.6 | -1.6% |
| CRS | CARPENTER TECHNOLOGY CORP | 8/9 | 7.05 | 55.5 | +8.6% |
| SXC | SunCoke Energy, Inc. | 2/9 | 1.39 | — | -5.1% |
| TWI | TITAN INTERNATIONAL INC | 4/9 | 2.94 | — | -0.9% |
| MTUS | Metallus Inc. | 4/9 | — | — | +6.9% |
About NUCOR CORP
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.
FAQ
Is NUE financially healthy?
NUCOR CORP's Piotroski F-score is 6/9 (8–9 is excellent, 0–3 weak).
Does NUE pay a dividend, and is it safe?
Yes. NUCOR CORP pays a dividend yielding about 0.94% with a 29.4% payout ratio, rated “safe” for safety.
How profitable is NUE?
In FY2025, NUCOR CORP had a net margin of 5.4% and a return on equity of 7.9%.
Is NUE overvalued or undervalued?
NUCOR CORP trades at about 36.1× trailing earnings — above its 10-year norm (10-year range 4.4×–23.6×, median 15.2×). Stocktoria reports the data, not buy/sell advice.
What is the analyst price target for NUE?
The average Wall-Street price target for NUCOR CORP is $283.56, about 4.3% above the recent price, from 16 analysts (consensus: buy).
Is NUE a good stock to buy?
Stocktoria doesn't give buy or sell advice, but here is the data on NUCOR CORP: a Piotroski F-score of 6/9, a P/E of about 31.3×, a dividend yield of 0.94%. Weigh these quality and valuation signals against your own goals.
Computed from company filings · US · as of 2025-12-31. Facts plus Stocktoria's own computed scores — not investment advice.