Is the business good?
How good a business is NUE?
Nucor keeps 8.0% of every revenue dollar as profit after everything, against 3.6% for the median Steel name.
8.0%
Net margin · Steel median 3.6% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 0.55×
Cash conversion · −0.30× a year ago · some of the reported profit has not turned into cash yet
- Share count, year on year
- −1.0%
Share count, year on year · flat: no meaningful dilution
- Gross margin
- 15%
Gross margin
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- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 15%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 8.0%
- Free cash flow margin
- 4.4%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $36.1B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $1.58B
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $2.88B
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.