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Nucor Corporation is a steel business based in the US. Nucor shares (NUE.US) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Nucor employs 26,800 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $20 billion.
How to buy shares in Nucor
- Choose a platform. If you're a beginner, our share-dealing table below can help you choose.
- Open your account. You'll need your ID, bank details and national insurance number.
- Confirm your payment details. You'll need to fund your account with a bank transfer, debit card or credit card.
- Search the platform for stock code: NUE in this case.
- Research Nucor shares. The platform should provide the latest information available.
- Buy your Nucor shares. It's that simple.
What's in this guide?
- Can I buy shares in Nucor?
- Nucor shares summary
- Compare share dealing platforms
- Is Nucor stock a buy or sell?
- Can I short Nucor shares?
- Is Nucor suitable for ethical investing?
- Are Nucor shares over-valued?
- Nucor's financials
- How volatile are Nucor shares?
- Does Nucor pay a dividend?
- Have Nucor shares ever split?
- Other common questions
Nucor share price
Use our graph to track the performance of NUE stocks over time.Nucor shares at a glance
Information last updated 2021-01-24.
| Latest market close | $N/A |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $26.4816 - $58.52 |
| 50-day moving average | $55.115 |
| 200-day moving average | $48.9558 |
| Wall St. target price | $55.56 |
| PE ratio | 38.8511 |
| Dividend yield | $1.62 (2.96%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $1.41 |
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Is it a good time to buy Nucor stock?
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Is Nucor under- or over-valued?
Valuing Nucor stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Nucor's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Nucor's P/E ratio
Nucor's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 39x. In other words, Nucor shares trade at around 39x recent earnings.
That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.
Nucor's PEG ratio
Nucor's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 0.75. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Nucor's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Nucor's EBITDA
Nucor's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is a whopping $2.1 billion.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Nucor's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
Nucor financials
| Revenue TTM | $20 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 6.52% |
| Gross profit TTM | $2.7 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 4.29% |
| Return on equity TTM | 5.05% |
| Profit margin | 2.15% |
| Book value | $34.122 |
| Market capitalisation | $16.5 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
How to short and sell Nucor shares
- Create a CFD or spread betting account.
- Search for the stock code. E.g. "NUE.US"
- Choose your position size.
- Select "sell" rather than "buy".
- Confirm your position and keep tabs on it. You may wish to set limits on your position.
There are currently 3.9 million Nucor shares held short by investors – that's known as Nucor's "short interest". This figure is 34% up from 2.9 million last month.
There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Nucor shares can be evaluated.
Nucor's "short interest ratio" (SIR)
Nucor's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Nucor shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Nucor shares traded daily (recently around 1.8 million). Nucor's SIR currently stands at 2.2. In other words for every 100,000 Nucor shares traded daily on the market, roughly 2200 shares are currently held short.
However Nucor's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Nucor shares, or, against the total number of tradable Nucor shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Nucor's short interest could be expressed as 0.01% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Nucor shares in existence, roughly 10 shares are currently held short) or 0.0147% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Nucor shares, roughly 15 shares are currently held short).
Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Nucor.
Find out more about how you can short Nucor stock.
Nucor's environmental, social and governance track record
Environmental, social and governance (known as ESG) criteria are a set of three factors used to measure the sustainability and social impact of companies like Nucor.
When it comes to ESG scores, lower is better, and lower scores are generally associated with lower risk for would-be investors.
Nucor's total ESG risk score
Total ESG risk: 38.15
Socially conscious investors use ESG scores to screen how an investment aligns with their worldview, and Nucor's overall score of 38.15 (as at 01/01/2019) is pretty weak – landing it in it in the 81st percentile of companies rated in the same sector.
ESG scores are increasingly used to estimate the level of risk a company like Nucor is exposed to within the areas of "environmental" (carbon footprint, resource use etc.), "social" (health and safety, human rights etc.), and "governance" (anti-corruption, tax transparency etc.).
Nucor's environmental score
Environmental score: 16.03/100
Nucor's environmental score of 16.03 puts it squarely in the 3rd percentile of companies rated in the same sector. This could suggest that Nucor is a leader in its sector terms of its environmental impact, and exposed to a lower level of risk.
Nucor's social score
Social score: 12.79/100
Nucor's social score of 12.79 puts it squarely in the 3rd percentile of companies rated in the same sector. This could suggest that Nucor is a leader in its sector when it comes to taking good care of its workforce and the communities it impacts.
Nucor's governance score
Governance score: 10.82/100
Nucor's governance score puts it squarely in the 3rd percentile of companies rated in the same sector. That could suggest that Nucor is a leader in its sector when it comes to responsible management and strategy, and exposed to a lower level of risk.
Nucor's controversy score
Controversy score: 3/5
ESG scores also evaluate any incidences of controversy that a company has been involved in. A high-profile company, Nucor scored a 3 out of 5 for controversy – a middle-of-the-table result reflecting that Nucor hasn't always managed to keep its nose clean.
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) summary
Nucor Corporation was last rated for ESG on: 2019-01-01.
| Total ESG score | 38.15 |
|---|---|
| Total ESG percentile | 80.78 |
| Environmental score | 16.03 |
| Environmental score percentile | 3 |
| Social score | 12.79 |
| Social score percentile | 3 |
| Governance score | 10.82 |
| Governance score percentile | 3 |
| Level of controversy | 3 |
Nucor share dividends
Dividend payout ratio: 63.58% of net profits
Recently Nucor has paid out, on average, around 63.58% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 2.96% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Nucor shareholders could enjoy a 2.96% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Nucor's case, that would currently equate to about $1.62 per share.
Nucor's payout ratio would broadly be considered high, and as such this stock could appeal to those looking to generate an income. Bear in mind however that companies should normally also look to re-invest a decent amount of net profits to ensure future growth.
Nucor's most recent dividend payout was on 11 February 2021. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 30 December 2020 (the "ex-dividend date").
Have Nucor's shares ever split?
Nucor's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 1 June 2006. So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Nucor shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Nucor shares which in turn could have impacted Nucor's share price.
Nucor share price volatility
Over the last 12 months, Nucor's shares have ranged in value from as little as $26.4816 up to $58.52. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Nucor's is 1.3403. This would suggest that Nucor's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
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Nucor overview
Nucor Corporation manufactures and sells steel and steel products. It 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 products; bar steel products, such as blooms, billets, concrete reinforcing and merchant bars, and special bar quality products. It also engages in the steel trading and rebar distribution businesses. This segment sells its products to steel service centers, fabricators, and manufacturers in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The Steel Products segment offers hollow structural section steel tubing products, electrical conduits, steel joists and joist girders, steel decks, fabricated concrete reinforcing steel products, cold finished steel products, steel fasteners, metal building systems, steel grating and expanded metal products, and wire and wire mesh products primarily for use in nonresidential construction applications. This segment also engages in the piling distribution business. The Raw Materials segment produces direct reduced iron (DRI); brokers ferrous and nonferrous metals, pig iron, DRI, and hot briquetted iron; supplies ferro-alloys; and processes ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal, as well as engages in the natural gas drilling operations. 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. The company offers its products through its in-house sales forces; and internal distribution and trading companies. The company was incorporated in 1958 and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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