Nucor Corp (NUE) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $127.47, with 2.16 million shares of worth about $274.79 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -15.36% during that period and on March 27, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 0.13%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 232.80M shares, out of which, 228.92M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -1.57% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -5.28%. Year-to-date (YTD), NUE shares are showing a performance of 9.22% which decreased to -34.79% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $112.25 but also hit the highest price of $203.00 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Nucor Corp shares is 2.86 million. The stock is currently trading -1.94% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -2.47% for SMA50 and it goes to -10.55% lower than SMA200.
Nucor Corp (NYSE: NUE) currently have 232.80M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 79.53% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $29.41B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.67. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 15.17, while it has posted earnings per share of $8.40 in the same period. Its PEG reads 0.91 and has Quick Ratio of 1.48 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.35. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for NUE, volatility over the week remained 3.17% while standing at 3.18% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -8.29% while it is estimated to increase by 40.44% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 16.59% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 15.38% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by UBS on March 24, 2025 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $160 to it. Coverage by UBS stated Nucor Corp (NUE) stock as a Neutral in their note to investors on December 12, 2024, suggesting a price target of $156 for the stock. On December 02, 2024, Goldman Initiated their recommendations, while on September 09, 2024, JP Morgan Upgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $174. Stock get an Overweight rating from Morgan Stanley on August 15, 2024.
