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We have scored 49 news catalysts on Nucor Corporation (NUE) over the past 12 months. The biggest single-day move next to one of them came Aug 18, 2026, when NUE closed −3.1%: “SLX Could Be Heading For A New Record High”. Coverage across the window leans positive (average ticker sentiment +0.42). Most of the impact sits in sector industrials and price momentum.
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Market cap
62.5B
P/E
—
EPS
—
Beta
1.85
52W range
140.93-280.11
Day range
271.56–275.89
Open
273.00
Prev close
271.79
Volume
1.5M
Avg volume
1.4M
Dividend
2.24
IPO
1980-03-17
Analysts publish price targets on NUE, and they disagree. Where the share price actually sits among them shows which of their arguments the market is buying — and which it is ignoring.
10 analyst price targets from $258 to $297
as of 2026-09-01
The market is 10% below the median target — more cautious than the analysts.
The reconstruction
Daily OHLCV with SMA overlays and session pivots. Draw your levels and trendlines on it, or ask the AI analyst what the price is reacting to.
Suppliers, customers, partners and competitors, derived from what the news actually says about Nucor Corporation — not a sector bucket. Click an edge to see the articles that established the link.
Suppliers, customers, partners and competitors of Nucor Corporation, taken from what the news actually said about them rather than from a sector bucket. The count is how many articles established each link.
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Nucor Corporation is a prominent producer and distributor of steel and diverse steel-related products. Within its Steel Mills division, the company manufactures a comprehensive range of steel goods. These include various sheet steel types like hot-rolled, cold-rolled, and galvanized, alongside plate steel. It also produces structural components such as wide-flange beams, beam blanks, H-piling, and sheet piling. Furthermore, this segment supplies bar steel products, encompassing blooms, billets, concrete reinforcing bars, merchant bars, and specialized bar quality items. Beyond manufacturing, Nucor's steel mills are involved in steel trading and the distribution of rebar. Its clientele primarily consists of steel service centers, fabricators, and manufacturers across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The Steel Products segment provides an array of manufactured steel goods, such as hollow structural section tubing, electrical conduits, steel racking, joists and girders, steel decks, and fabricated concrete reinforcing steel. It also supplies cold finished steel, fasteners, complete metal building systems, insulated metal panels, steel grating, expanded metal, and various wire and wire mesh products. These offerings are largely directed towards nonresidential construction projects. Additionally, this segment manages a piling distribution operation. Nucor's Raw Materials division is responsible for producing direct reduced iron (DRI). It also acts as a broker for ferrous and nonferrous metals, pig iron, hot briquetted iron (HBI), and direct reduced iron (DRI). This segment supplies ferro-alloys, processes both ferrous and nonferrous scrap metals, and undertakes natural gas drilling activities. Its ferrous scrap is supplied to electric arc furnace steel mills and foundries for their manufacturing processes. Meanwhile, nonferrous scrap metal is sold to aluminum can manufacturers, secondary aluminum smelters, steel mills, various other processors, and direct consumers of diverse nonferrous metals. The corporation caters to a wide range of industries including agriculture, automotive, construction, energy and transmission, oil and gas, heavy equipment, infrastructure, and transportation. Sales are conducted via an in-house sales team and through the company's internal distribution and trading enterprises. Established in 1958, Nucor Corporation has its headquarters situated in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The price sits at the very bottom of the published model range, 10% below the median target and fully rejecting the four most bullish scenarios, which means the market is paying only for a baseline steel cycle and not for the sustained pricing power those top models assume.
What the disagreement turns on
Can Nucor convert its 40% backlog growth and current policy tailwinds into sustained high-cycle steel pricing, or will rising production costs and cyclical normalization erode margins; unit volume data can confirm the backlog growth, but the decisive factor is steel pricing, which cannot be measured with the wired tools.
The price pays for
It declines to pay for
Written by a language model from the published models, the reported segments and a reverse-DCF — not a recommendation, and not a house view.
Claim by claim
Computed at $250 on 2026-09-01 — the quote has since moved +10%, so read this as a record of what was priced in then, not now.
