NUENucor
Is the price fair?
A demanding price: priced for +14% a year vs −1% a year delivered and at the top of its own P/E range.
Priced for ~14% a year FCF growth. The price already bakes in strong, sustained growth.
Expensive vs its own history: P/E 20.6 vs a 12.4 median over 41 quarters (+66% 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 20.6× earnings against 23.0× for the median Steel name, cheaper than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Steel median 23.0 · cheaper than the typical name in its group
- Price / sales
- 1.62
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Jul 4, 2026
- Free cash flow yield
- 2.7%
Free cash flow yield · Steel median 2.7%
- Growth the price implies
- +14%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +14% 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
- 2.65
- EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Jul 4, 2026
- 1.74
- Basic Materials median P/E202 names
- 20.6
- Steel median P/E13 names
- 23.0
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $1.58B
- Market capitalisation226.9 million shares, counted Jul 4, 2026
- $58.6B
- 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 | $220.75 |
| 52-week range | $130.89 – $274.60 |
| Today | $258.13 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
What is it worth?
Today's price against what its own multiples, its cash flow and your growth assumption say it is worth.
Against its own past
Its multiples now against their own history, and how much of the price move came from earnings rather than the multiple.
Steel
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