In the latest trading session,, 0.47 million Nucor Corp (NYSE:NUE) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.75. With the company’s most recent per share price at $116.89 changing hands around $1.17 or 1.01% at last look, the market valuation stands at $26.97B. NUE’s current price is a discount, trading about -51.28% off its 52-week high of $176.83. The share price had its 52-week low at $97.59, which suggests the last value was 16.51% up since then. When we look at Nucor Corp’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 1.79 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 2.92 million.
Analysts gave the Nucor Corp (NUE) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Hold, calculated at a mean rating of 1.75. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 11 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 7 recommended NUE as a Hold, 4 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. Nucor Corp’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be 0.61.
Nucor Corp (NYSE:NUE) trade information
Instantly NUE is in green as seen in intraday trades today. With action 9.58%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 0.15%, with the 5-day performance at 9.58% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Nucor Corp (NYSE:NUE) is -8.30% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 5.86 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 1.87 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 160, meaning bulls need an upside of 26.94% from its recent market value. According to analyst projections, NUE’s forecast low is 155 with 164 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -40.3% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -32.6% for it to hit the projected low.
Nucor Corp (NUE) estimates and forecasts
Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach 3.21% up from the last financial year.
Consensus estimates given by 7 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 7.29B. 7 analysts are of the opinion that Nucor Corp’s revenue for the current quarter will be 8.39B. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 8.14B and 8.08B respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at -10.39%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at 3.82%.
Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of 15.38%. The 2025 estimates are for Nucor Corp earnings to decrease by -5.32%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 15.76% per year.
NUE Dividends
Nucor Corp is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-Jan-26. The 1.87% annual yield figure for the share gives it an annual dividend of 2.18. It is important to note, however, that the 1.87% dividend yield ratio should serve as a guide only, as you should also take into consideration many other aspects of a company’s operations and fundamentals before making any investment decision. During the past 5 years, the average dividend yield was 1.8 per year.
Nucor Corp (NYSE:NUE)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 0.45% of Nucor Corp shares while 79.81% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 80.17%. There are 79.81% institutions holding the Nucor Corp stock share, with VANGUARD GROUP INC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 11.9372% of the shares, roughly 28.6 million NUE shares worth $4.52 billion.
STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE CO holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 10.3064% or 24.69 million shares worth $3.9 billion as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Dec 31, 2024 were VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund . With 7.35 shares estimated at $855.82 million under it, the former controlled 3.19% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund held about 2.76% of the shares, roughly 6.36 shares worth around $740.0 million.
