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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, INC. · Metals & Mining · CIK 0000073309
$264.54
+1.16% · delayed ~15 min
Last price from Oct 21, 2026
$60.99B market value
From NUCOR CORP's FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026 · read the filing
NUCOR produces steel and other metals. It took in $32.49B last year, which makes it a large company. Of every dollar it sells, about 5 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is led by debt and accounting, with profitability and growth worth watching.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Recent open-market selling by 4 insiders, not under a pre-arranged plan.
$11.2M sold in the last 120 days · Read the filing
These are things the company filed or that a published model flagged — not predictions, and not a reason on their own to buy or sell anything.
Financial health
Strong finances across the board.
From NUCOR CORP's FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Free cash flow
$806.0M → -$188.0M
Long-term debt
$5.68B → $6.91B
Cash
$3.56B → $2.26B
Revenue
$30.73B → $32.49B
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Feb 25, 2026
Deteriorated: turned negative
$806.0M to -$188.0MCritical
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
How the latest move compares (quote delayed ~15 min), and what was published around it
NUE rose 1.16% on the latest quote. The average Materials company tracked here moved −1.19%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 2.4 points above its sector and 2.2 points above the market.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
Opinions from 23 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 23 analysts publishing on this company, 5 say strong buy, 12 say buy, 5 say hold and 1 say sell. Analysts are paid to publish a view and are wrong often; the split above says how much they agree with each other, which is the part a single headline rating hides.
Published by Finnhub. Analyst coverage skews towards larger companies and towards optimism — sell ratings are rare across the whole market, so a company with none is ordinary rather than endorsed.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 5 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $1.74B last year. Note that after $3.42B of spending on property and equipment, it consumed $188.0M more cash than it generated.
Slowly. Sales grew 5.7% last year.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Whether the dividend is covered by what the business actually earns
It pays out 29 cents of every dollar of profit and keeps the rest, which leaves the payment comfortably covered. It paid out 16% of the cash its operations generated. It has paid in each of the last 12 years.
GoodNext payment expected around , projected from how regularly it has paid before rather than from a date the company has announced.
Figures from the FY2025 annual filing
Last year it earned $1.74B and generated $3.23B of cash from operations.
Reported annual figures
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202510-K · Feb 25, 2026Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Feb 27, 2025Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Feb 27, 2025Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Feb 27, 2025Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Feb 28, 2022Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $32.49B | $30.73B | $34.71B | $41.51B | $36.48B | +5.7% |
| Cost of revenue | $28.62B | $26.63B | $26.90B | $29.01B | $25.46B | +7.4% |
| Gross profit | $3.88B† | $4.10B† | $7.82B† | $12.50B† | $11.03B† | −5.5% |
| Gross marginGross profit ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 11.9% | 13.3% | 22.5% | 30.1% | 30.2% | −1.4 pts |
| Selling, general and administrative | $1.22B | $1.12B | $1.58B | $2.00B | $1.71B | +8.5% |
| Interest expense | $170.0M | $228.0M | $246.0M | $219.0M | $163.1M | −25.4% |
| Income before tax | $2.57B | $2.90B | $6.27B | $10.24B | $9.20B | −11.5% |
| Net income | $1.74B | $2.03B | $4.53B | $7.61B | $6.83B | −14.0% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 5.4% | 6.6% | 13.0% | 18.3% | 18.7% | −1.2 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $7.56 | $8.42 | $17.96 | $28.27 | $22.91 | −10.2% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
This company's latest filing beside its peers' stored scores
| Company | Health | F-Score | Revenue growth | Profit margin | P/E | Debt to equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NUENUCOR CORP · this page | 8.0/10 | 6/9 | 5.7% |
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Exercised stock options — 26,000 shares at $42.46 ($1.1M)
Holds 164,154 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 25,898 shares at $268.52 ($7.0M)
Holds 138,256 shares after this filing.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Quarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Revenue +23.0% · Profit margin +4.0 pts · Gross profit +66.3% — against Q2 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
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Every figure above traces back to a filing in the timeline, each linked to the document itself.
The 46 subsidiaries named in its 10-K, incorporated across 8 places. A filer lists the significant ones and may leave the rest out, so this is the floor rather than the full count.
Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from NUE's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-12-31, filed Feb 25, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing.
4 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. All four had enough reported figures. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 9 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 8.0 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 7.0 | 5/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2025 |
| FY2023 | 8.0 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2025 |
| FY2022 | 9.0 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2025 |
| FY2021 | 9.0 | 7/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 28, 2022 |
| FY2020 | 7.0 | 5/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2021 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
6 of 9 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's.
5.52
In the safe zone
For this model, above 2.99 is safe and below 1.81 is distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
-2.50
Below the threshold — nothing unusual flagged
Scores above -1.78 are the ones the model associates with earnings manipulation.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2025 filing as filed with the SEC.
Deteriorated: +21.6%
$5.68B to $6.91BSignificant
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Deteriorated: -36.5%
$3.56B to $2.26BSignificant
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: +5.7%
$30.73B to $32.49BNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Deteriorated: -5.5%
$4.10B to $3.88BNotable
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Deteriorated: -14.0%
$2.03B to $1.74BNotable
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Deteriorated: −1.4 pts
13.3% to 11.9%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Deteriorated: −1.2 pts
6.6% to 5.4%Notable
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Deteriorated: -10.2%
$8.42 to $7.56Notable
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: -4.2%
240.7M to 230.5MNotable
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
Changed: +7.8%
$3.17B to $3.42BNotable
Why it matters: Neither good nor bad on its own. Heavy spending is a company building capacity or a company struggling to stand still, and the two look identical in this figure.
Q2 FY2026 against Q2 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Aug 12, 2026 — read it.
Improved: +66.3%
$1.22B to $2.03BCritical
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Improved: +91.7%
$603.0M to $1.16BCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +94.0%
$2.63 to $5.10Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: +23.0%
$8.46B to $10.40BSignificant
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: +5.1 pts
14.5% to 19.6%Significant
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Improved: +4.0 pts
7.1% to 11.1%Significant
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: +27.3%
$1.95B to $2.48BSignificant
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: -1.2%
229.5M to 226.9MNotable
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
Q2 FY2026 against Q1 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Aug 12, 2026 — read it. Quarter-to-quarter moves include seasonal swings — a retailer's holiday quarter — which the year-earlier comparison removes.
Improved: +55.6%
$743.0M to $1.16BCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +56.2%
$3.26 to $5.10Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: +35.5%
$1.50B to $2.03BSignificant
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Improved: +3.8 pts
15.8% to 19.6%Significant
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Improved: +3.3 pts
7.8% to 11.1%Significant
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: +9.5%
$9.50B to $10.40BNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: -7.1%
$6.88B to $6.39BNotable
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Improved: +11.3%
$2.23B to $2.48BNotable
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
1 other measure barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
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Measured on and published about a week later — this is a fortnightly snapshot, not a live position.
About 1.9% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
Collected by FINRA from broker-dealers twice a month. It counts positions, not intentions, and some of it is hedging rather than a directional bet against the company.
Nothing in this section is a figure this company reported about itself. These are expectations and positions — what the price implies, what analysts have published, what short sellers are betting, and what large funds held at the last count. WylthIQ reports them; it does not endorse them, does not forecast prices, and takes no view on whether any of them will turn out to be right.
No. At its current cash flow it could clear its debt in about 1.5 years. For every $1 it owes, it owns $2.70 in assets.
The trailing P/E is 19.6x — investors pay $19.6 for each $1 of trailing profit.
Nothing unusual. Its accounting patterns look like those of companies that report earnings straightforwardly.
| 5.4% |
| 34.97x |
| 0.62x |
| STLDSTEEL DYNAMICS INC | 8.0/10 | 5/9 | 3.6% | 6.5% | 29.33x | 0.84x |
|---|
| CLFCLEVELAND-CLIFFS INC. | 4.0/10 | 2/9 | -3.0% | -7.9% | — | 2.24x |
|---|
| Median of peers | 6.0/10 | — | 0.3% | -0.7% | 29.33x | 1.54x |
|---|
Peers come from the company's industry classification. A difference describes the companies; it does not rank them.
Sold on the open market — 102 shares at $269.29 ($27.5K)
Holds 138,154 shares after this filing.
Gifted shares — 1,800 shares
Holds 136,354 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 7,739 shares at $110.74 ($857.0K)
Holds 67,047 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 5,127 shares at $274.00 ($1.4M)
Holds 61,920 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 2,612 shares at $274.42 ($716.8K)
Holds 59,308 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 4,000 shares at $261.02 ($1.0M)
Holds 16,138 shares after this filing.
Gifted shares — 2,409 shares
Holds 81,835 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 3,968 shares at $256.96 ($1.0M)
Holds 77,867 shares after this filing.
Notice filed ahead of a planned sale — the sale itself has not necessarily happened yet.
Filed notice to sell 7,739 shares ($2.1M) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Stock Option Exercise.
Filed notice to sell 26,000 shares ($7.0M) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Stock Option Exercise.
Filed notice to sell 4,000 shares ($1.0M) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Restricted Stock Vesting.
Filed notice to sell 3,968 shares ($1.0M) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Restricted Stock Vesting.
Filed notice to sell 20,341 shares ($5.3M) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Stock Option Exercise.
Filed notice to sell 17,399 shares ($4.2M) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Restricted Stock Vesting.
Estimated from how often this has happened before, not a confirmed date.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
Had a director or senior officer leave or join
Had a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingHeld a shareholder vote
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Revenue +21.3% · Profit margin +5.8 pts · Gross profit +148.1% — against Q1 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Revenue +5.7% · Profit margin −1.2 pts · Free cash flow turned negative — against FY2024
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingPublished results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2025
Revenue +14.5% · Profit margin +3.8 pts · Gross profit +56.7% — against Q3 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2025
Cash -58.1% · Long-term debt +18.5% · Profit -6.5% — against Q2 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingDisclosed a material cybersecurity incident
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2025
Profit margin −8.4 pts · Gross profit -60.3% · Profit -81.5% — against Q1 FY2025
Read the filingThe first 40 of 46. The rest are in the exhibit.
Source: Exhibit 21 of the 10-K filed 2026-02-25. These are legal entities, not brands or acquisitions — a company that bought a business may hold it inside an entity named here, or inside one small enough that the rule does not require naming it at all.
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