NUENucor
Is the price fair?
A demanding price: priced for +13% a year vs −1% a year delivered and at the top of its own P/E range.
Priced for ~13% a year FCF growth. The price already bakes in strong, sustained growth.
Expensive vs its own history: P/E 20.0 vs a 12.4 median over 41 quarters (+61% vs median).
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.
What NUE's price assumes
Nucor trades at 20.0× earnings against 26.2× for the median Steel name, cheaper than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Steel median 26.2 · cheaper than the typical name in its group
- Price / sales
- 1.54
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Jul 4, 2026
- Free cash flow yield
- 2.9%
Free cash flow yield · Steel median 2.9%
- Growth the price implies
- +13%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +13% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered −37% a year over the last three.
Details›
- Price / booktoday's price, trailing year to Jul 4, 2026
- 2.51
- EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Jul 4, 2026
- 1.66
- Basic Materials median P/E203 names
- 20.7
- Steel median P/E13 names
- 26.2
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $1.58B
- Market capitalisation
- $55.5B
- 3-year revenue growth
- −1.2%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- −37%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $91.21 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $155.56 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $226.88 |
| 52-week range | $130.89 – $274.60 |
| Today | $250.38 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
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