JP Morgan Reiterates Rating on Nucor Corporation $NUE

Key Points

  • JP Morgan now rates Nucor Corporation ($NUE) "buy" with a $282 target.
  • JP Morgan's $282 price target implies 5.88% upside from Nucor Corporation's ($NUE) current $266.35 share price.
  • The Street's average $NUE price target is $282.81 (Buy).
  • $NUE last traded around $266.35.

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JP Morgan reiterated its rating on Nucor Corporation ($NUE) to a "buy" rating in a recent research note and set a price target of $282, a 5.88% upside from the current price.

Nucor Corporation Stock Up 6.3%

Shares of Nucor Corporation ($NUE) traded around $266.35 on Saturday, up 6.3% for the day.

Last price$266.35
Market cap$56.64B
P/E ratio20
Forward P/E13.11
PEG ratio5.21
Beta1.89
52-week low$131.32
52-week high$280.11
50-day MA$247.25
200-day MA$203.77
Current ratio2.51
Quick ratio1.28
Debt-to-equity0.31

Nucor Corporation Earnings

EPS (ttm)$12.48
Revenue (ttm)$36.10B
Revenue growth23%
Net margin7.99%
Return on equity14.55%
Next earningsOct 26, 2026

Nucor Corporation Dividend

Annual dividend$2.24
Dividend yield89%
Payout ratio17.80%
Ex-dividend dateJun 30, 2026

Analysts Set New Price Targets

ConsensusBuy
Average target$282.81
High target$305
Low target$231
Analysts covering16

About Nucor Corporation

Nucor Corporation engages in the manufacture and sale of steel and steel products. The company operates in three segments: Steel Mills, Steel Products, and Raw Materials. The Steel Mills segment produces hot-rolled, cold-rolled, and galvanized sheet steel products; plate steel products; wide-flange beams, beam blanks, and H-piling and sheet piling structural steel products; and bar steel products, such as blooms, billets, concrete reinforcing and merchant bars, and engineered special bar quality products. This segment sells its products to steel service centers, fabricators, and manufacturers in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, as well as engages in the steel trading and rebar distribution businesses. The Steel Products segment offers steel joists and joist girders, steel decks, and galvanized torque tubes for use in solar arrays, hollow structural section steel tubing, electrical conduit, fabricated concrete reinforcing steel, cold finished steel, steel fasteners, steel grating and expanded metal, wire and wire mesh, metal building systems, insulated metal panels, steel racking, overhead doors, and utility towers and structures for communications and energy transmission. This segment is also involved in the piling distribution business. The Raw Materials segment produces direct reduced iron (DRI); brokers ferrous and nonferrous metals, pig iron, hot briquetted iron, and DRI; supplies ferro-alloys; processes ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal; and engages in the natural gas production and industrial gas business. This segment sells its ferrous scrap to electric arc furnace steel mills and foundries for manufacturing process; and nonferrous scrap metal to aluminum can producers, secondary aluminum smelters, steel mills and other processors, and consumers of various nonferrous metals. Nucor Corporation was founded in 1905 and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

ExchangeNYSE
SectorBasic Materials
IndustrySteel
HeadquartersCharlotte, NC
CEOMr. Leon J. Topalian
Employees33,000

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