NUE — Nucor Corporation
Basic Materials · ETF XLB · as of 2026-09-18
Daily · EMA 10 / 20 / 50 · SMA 200 · VolPress: buy/sell split, 20-SMA, white dot = above avg · · E = earnings · RS vs SPY ⓘ · ● RS new high ⓘ
Nucor Corporation
NYQ
Basic Materials · Steel
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...
Price & today
$248.38
ATR(14) 8.75 (3.52%)
| Stock today | -6.32% |
| Sector ETF today | -1.42% |
| Residual (stock-specific) | -4.90% |
Sector correlation
| 20-day correlation with XLB | 0.68 |
| 60-day correlation with XLB | 0.45 |
| Status | normal |
Decoupling fires when 60d corr − 20d corr > 0.20: stock used to track its sector but the relationship has weakened recently.
Technicals
| 10 EMA | $257.14 |
| 20 EMA | $256.90 |
| 50 EMA | $252.91 |
| EMA stack | BULLISH |
| RSI(14) | 43.4 |
| 52-week high distance | +8.96% |
| 52-week low distance | +133.86% |
Signals
| Market F&G | 46.9 |
| Bull% | 12.2% |
| OVTLYR status | SELL (19d) |
| Sector rank | #115 |
| Next earnings | 2026-10-26 (TNS, 37d) |
MarketSmith metrics - our compute
RS Rating
54.0
ADR%
3.0
RMV (tight)
100.0
Ext (ATR>20EMA)
-1.0
Rel Vol
235.0%
U/D 50d
1.43
U/D 25d
0.70
Accum/Dist 25d
1 / 3
EPS YoY
+83.0%
LoD dist
20.0
Off 52w High
11.3%
Above 52w Low
89.1%
1W / 1M
-4.3 / -0.1
Avg $Vol 50d
346.2M
Mkt Cap (B)
56.6
Trend 8/8
no
Leads Group
no
Sector XLB
-1.9% 1W
Base len (VCP)
10wk (4/17)
Coil (base shape)
85TVPX
What do these abbreviations mean?
- RS Rating
- - IBD-style relative strength vs SPY (weighted 3/6/9/12-mo). 70+ = leaders pool, 80+ = strong.
- ADR%
- - average daily range over 20 days. 4%+ = the fast movers the playbook prefers (selection order, not a gate).
- RMV (tight)
- - Relative Measured Volatility, 15 bars, scaled 0-100. <15 = tight coiled base (green), <35 moderate, high = loose/expanding - not a base right now.
- Ext (ATR>20EMA)
- - how many ATRs price sits above its 20-EMA. ≤1 = in value (green), >2 = extended/chasing (red) - prefer a pullback.
- Rel Vol
- - latest volume vs the 50-day average. 100% = normal; 140%+ = breakout confirmation.
- U/D 50d / 25d
- - up-day vs down-day volume over the window. 1.1+ = net accumulation (institutions buying); under 0.9 on the 25d = net selling.
- Accum/Dist 25d
- - heavy-volume up days vs heavy-volume down days in the last 25 sessions (close moved 0.2%+ on above-average volume). The institutional-participation footprint; 5+ distribution days = O'Neil caution line.
- LoD dist
- - close distance above the day low in % of ATR (100 = one full ATR off the low). High = strong close.
- Off/Above 52w
- - trend-template legs: within 25% of the 52-week high, at least 25% above the 52-week low.
- Trend 8/8
- - all 8 Minervini Trend Template criteria pass. Discovery floor, NOT an entry signal - entries come from the VCP pivot.
- Base len (VCP)
- - weeks since the VCP base started on the latest scan. 10wk+ bases carry the edge; short stacked bases test below random.
Fundamentals & valuation - reference, not entry inputs
P/E (TTM)
24.7
Fwd P/E
15.8
PEG
5.2
Price/Book
2.5
Profit margin
6.8%
ROE
12.3%
Debt/Equity
31.6
Rev growth
+21.3%
Analyst target
$230 (-7%)
Analyst rating
BUY
Institutional %
78.8%
Insider %
3.2%
Float %
97.0%
Valuation and analyst figures are Yahoo company stats (weekly refresh, ~3,000 larger names - blanks are honest gaps); logo, employees, website and IPO date are Massive company reference. Momentum/VCP entries do not use valuation - this card is context so you do not have to leave the page.
Company data - context read, not entry inputs
Industry rank
120 / 147
Industry
Steel
Float
220.9M
Float turnover 20d
0.6%
Avg $Vol 20d / 50d
317.2M / 346.2M
Days to cover
3.1
Short % float
2.6%
Institutional %
78.8%
Weinstein stage
2
Float, short interest and institutional % come from Yahoo company stats, refreshed weekly for ~3,000 larger names - a blank means Yahoo does not publish the figure for this stock, not that it is zero. Dollar volume and float turnover are computed from our own price bars; industry rank from our rotation data; stage from the weekly chart.
Quarterly EPS - earnings acceleration
A dash in %Chg is deliberate: the year-ago figure was a loss, so a growth % would be meaningless. A dash in Sales means we have no revenue figure for that quarter - read it as a gap in our data, not as zero revenue.
| Quarter | EPS ($) | %Chg YoY | Sales ($M) | %Chg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct-24 | 1.49 | -67% | 7,444.0 | -15% |
| Jan-25 | 1.22 | -61% | 7,076.0 | -8% |
| Apr-25 | 0.77 | -78% | 7,830.0 | -4% |
| Jul-25 | 2.65 | -1% | 8,456.0 | +5% |
| Oct-25 | 2.63 | +77% | 8,521.0 | +14% |
| Jan-26 | 1.73 | +42% | 7,687.0 | +9% |
| Apr-26 | 3.23 | +319% | 9,496.0 | +21% |
| Jul-26 | 4.84 | +83% | 10,397.0 | +23% |
† = SEC carries this same fiscal quarter under a second period-end with a materially different figure (hover for it) - a restatement, merger recast or successor-period split; %Chg is blanked when the two are more than 15% apart. It fires only when the two period-ends DISAGREE, so it is a floor, not a guarantee that the rest of the column shares one basis · ‡ = the revenue concept changed from the previous quarter WITH A FIGURE (hover for both) - a blank row in between is skipped, as the eye does - a step at that row is a change of basis, not necessarily of business · EPS = Yahoo
eps_actual (the figure MarketSmith/Deepvue show) - whether a given quarter is GAAP or excludes a one-off follows the filing, so it can sit either side of another vendor's number; AAPL's Oct-24 row, the Sep-2024 fiscal quarter, is $0.97 here - GAAP, including the EU tax charge - where TradingView's year implies $1.64 · Sales ($M) = SEC EDGAR quarterly revenue (fiscal Q4 derived as FY minus 9-mo) · quarter = report month · %Chg blank = prior-year base under $0.05 (not meaningful).Recent news - our DB (Finnhub + OVTLYR)
- Sep 18 + If You Invested $1000 in Nucor a Decade Ago, This is How Much It'd Be Worth Now Zacks Investment Research
- Sep 17 · Nucor Announces Guidance for the Third Quarter of 2026 Earnings PRNewsWire
- Sep 17 + Why Nucor (NUE) is a Top Momentum Stock for the Long-Term Zacks Investment Research
- Sep 17 · Nucor (NYSE:NUE) Meets Minervini Trend Template and High Growth Momentum Screen ChartMill
- Sep 17 · Nucor (NUE) Stock May Be 37% Undervalued On Cash Flow Yahoo
- Sep 16 · Warren Buffett, Donald Trump Bet on Same 17 Stocks — Some Might Surprise You Benzinga
- Sep 16 · Warren Buffett, Donald Trump Bet on Same 17 Stocks — Some Might Surprise You Benzinga
- Sep 15 · U.S. Steel and Materials Stocks Swing as U.S.-Canada Trade War Escalates With 50% Tariffs Yahoo