STLD — Steel Dynamics, Inc.
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 ⓘ
Steel Dynamics, Inc.
NMS
Basic Materials · Steel
Steel Dynamics, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a steel producer and metal recycler in the United States. It operates through four segments: Steel Operations, Metals Recycling Operations, Steel Fabrication Operations, and Aluminum Operations. The Steel Operations segment offers hot rolled, cold rolled, and coated steel products; parallel flange beams and channel sections, large unequal leg angles, and reinforcing steel bars, as well as standard strength carbon, intermediate all...
Price & today
$235.26
ATR(14) 8.79 (3.74%)
| Stock today | -4.11% |
| Sector ETF today | -1.42% |
| Residual (stock-specific) | -2.69% |
Sector correlation
| 20-day correlation with XLB | 0.87 |
| 60-day correlation with XLB | 0.44 |
| 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 | $239.07 |
| 20 EMA | $240.04 |
| 50 EMA | $241.69 |
| EMA stack | BEARISH |
| RSI(14) | 45.3 |
| 52-week high distance | +1.87% |
| 52-week low distance | +96.23% |
Signals
| Market F&G | 46.9 |
| Bull% | 12.2% |
| OVTLYR status | SELL (20d) |
| Sector rank | #50 |
| Next earnings | 2026-10-19 (TNS, 30d) |
MarketSmith metrics - our compute
RS Rating
50.1
ADR%
3.3
RMV (tight)
100.0
Ext (ATR>20EMA)
-0.5
Rel Vol
263.0%
U/D 50d
1.16
U/D 25d
0.71
Accum/Dist 25d
2 / 4
EPS YoY
+84.0%
LoD dist
32.0
Off 52w High
18.5%
Above 52w Low
74.4%
1W / 1M
-1.9 / +1.8
Avg $Vol 50d
285.6M
Mkt Cap (B)
33.9
Trend 8/8
no
Leads Group
no
Sector XLB
-1.9% 1W
Base len (VCP)
10wk (5/29)
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)
25.2
Fwd P/E
13.7
PEG
11.9
Price/Book
3.7
Profit margin
7.2%
ROE
15.2%
Debt/Equity
46.0
Rev growth
+19.1%
Analyst target
$228 (-3%)
Analyst rating
BUY
Institutional %
87.9%
Insider %
6.6%
Float %
93.2%
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
134.4M
Float turnover 20d
0.9%
Avg $Vol 20d / 50d
276.1M / 285.6M
Days to cover
3.5
Short % float
3.6%
Institutional %
87.9%
Weinstein stage
2
Float, short interest and institutional % come from Yahoo company stats, refreshed weekly for ~3,000 larger names - a blank means Yahoo does not publish the figure for this stock, not that it is zero. Dollar volume and float turnover are computed from our own price bars; industry rank from our rotation data; stage from the weekly chart.
Quarterly EPS - earnings acceleration
A dash in %Chg is deliberate: the year-ago figure was a loss, so a growth % would be meaningless. A dash in Sales means we have no revenue figure for that quarter - read it as a gap in our data, not as zero revenue.
| Quarter | EPS ($) | %Chg YoY | Sales ($M) | %Chg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct-24 | 2.05 | -41% | 4,341.6 | -5% |
| Jan-25 | 1.36 | -48% | 3,872.1 | -9% |
| Apr-25 | 1.44 | -61% | 4,369.2 | -7% |
| Jul-25 | 2.01 | -26% | 4,565.1 | -1% |
| Oct-25 | 2.74 | +34% | 4,828.2 | +11% |
| Jan-26 | 1.82 | +34% | 4,414.0 | +14% |
| Apr-26 | 2.78 | +93% | 5,204.9 | +19% |
| Jul-26 | 3.69 | +84% | 6,091.6 | +33% |
† = 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 + Steel Dynamics (STLD) Recently Broke Out Above the 50-Day Moving Average Zacks Investment Research
- Sep 17 · Steel Dynamics (STLD) Rises Higher Than Market: Key Facts Zacks Investment Research
- Sep 17 · Steel Dynamics Provides Third Quarter 2026 Earnings Guidance PRNewsWire
- Sep 17 + Steel Dynamics (STLD) Rises Higher Than Market: Key Facts Zacks Investment Research
- Sep 17 + Why Steel Dynamics (STLD) is a Top Momentum Stock for the Long-Term Zacks Investment Research
- Sep 16 + 15 stocks that have grown dividends the most — and nearly all have beaten the S&P 500 Market Watch
- Sep 15 · These S&P500 stocks that are showing activity before the opening bell on Tuesday. ChartMill
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