With 2.16 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 2.86 million shares. During the session, the Steel company that operates in wider Basic Materials sector, reached to the highest price of $128.85 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $124.8949. The 52-week range on NUE shows that it touched its highest point at $203.00 and its lowest point at $112.25 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $154.70. With its current market cap of 29.41 billion, NUE has annualized dividend of $2.17 while the current yield stands at 1.70%. NUE paid its most recent dividend on 1735603200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1743379200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.67.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of NUE was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -1.57%, but this was down by -5.28% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 9.31% while six-month performance fell -15.36%. The stock lost -34.79% in the past year, while it has gained 9.22% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for NUE yields 8.40 with Next year EPS estimates of 10.90. For the next quarter, that number is 0.79. This implies an EPS growth rate of -8.29% for this year and 40.44% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 16.59% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 15.38%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 232.80 million NUE shares are outstanding with a float of 228.92 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-14, short shares totaled 4.57 million, which was 198.00000000000003 higher than short shares on 1739491200. In addition to Mr. Jack Sullivan as the firm’s General Manager of Investor Relations, Mr. Douglas R. Wilner serves as its President of Corporate Legal Affairs & General Counsel.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.79809 of NUE’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-12-31, NUE reported revenue of $7075585000.0 and operating income of $386963000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $800421000.0 and diluted EPS was $nan.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for NUE since 11 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 4 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 7 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With NUE analysts setting a high price target of 175.0 and a low target of 135.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 153.56917. Based on these targets, NUE could surge 37.29% to reach the target high and rise by 5.91% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 20.47% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $8.5303 being high and $7.8278 being low. For NUE, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $8.26937. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $2.5 and the low estimate is $1.81. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $2.17.
