NUE · Nucor Corporation
$247.56
+7.17% last session
End-of-day data · updated 2026-07-28
Market cap
$56B
Enterprise value
$62B
Trailing P/E
24.6
Forward P/E
14.3
Dividend yield
1.0%
Beta
1.92
Avg volume
2M
Employees
33K
2D change
—
5D change
2.78%
10D change
4.75%
30D change
3.62%
60D change
-0.61%
MTD change
13.17%
YTD change
52.85%
Analyst Outlook
Analyst estimates change daily — follow the shifts on the Estimate Trends page.
Technical Analysis
Analyst sentiment over time — NUE
Rec Mean (blue, left — higher = more bullish) vs. price targets (right).
Investment Bank Ratings as of 2026-07-28
Latest call per bank · past 12 months
UBS
Neutral$256
+3.4% vs priceBarclays
Overweight$272
+9.9% vs priceBank of America
Buy$280
+13.1% vs priceMorgan Stanley
Equal-Weight$258
+4.2% vs priceWells Fargo
Overweight$283
+14.3% vs priceJP Morgan
Overweight$282
+13.9% vs priceCitigroup
Buy$260
+5.0% vs priceJefferies
Buy$190
-23.3% vs priceRecent rating actions
| Date | Firm | Action | Rating | Price target |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-28 | UBS | Maintains | Neutral | $224 → $256 |
| 2026-07-16 | Barclays | Maintains | Overweight | $270 → $272 |
| 2026-07-09 | Bank of America | Maintains | Buy | $290 → $280 |
| 2026-06-24 | Keybanc | Upgrade | Sector Weight → Overweight | $0.00 → $274 |
| 2026-06-22 | Morgan Stanley | Maintains | Equal-Weight | $227 → $258 |
| 2026-06-18 | Wells Fargo | Maintains | Overweight | $292 → $283 |
| 2026-06-10 | JP Morgan | Maintains | Overweight | $240 → $282 |
| 2026-06-04 | Wells Fargo | Maintains | Overweight | $244 → $292 |
Ratings and price targets are the published opinions of the issuing banks, compiled from Yahoo Finance rating actions — not investment advice.
Signal Summary as of 2026-07-28
- RSI (14): RSI is 72 — overbought territory; the recent run-up may be due for a pause.
- Price vs 50-day MA: Trading 10.5% above the 50-day MA ($240.46).
- Price vs 200-day MA: Trading 40.8% above the 200-day MA ($188.65).
- MA cross: The 50-day MA sits above the 200-day MA (golden-cross regime) — the longer-term trend points up.
- MACD (12,26,9): MACD histogram is positive (+3.43) — short-term momentum is improving.
- 52-week range: Price is within 5% of the 52-week high ($265.70).
NUE Price Chart
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Fundamentals
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. 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.
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