Compare Stocks: VALE, NUE, MT, and STLD

Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
MT ArcelorMittal	$74.45 +1.0%	$66.69	$31.93 ▼ $75.66	$57.70B	1.53	1.87 million shs	922,967 shs
NUE Nucor	$272.16 +0.1%	$246.40	$131.32 ▼ $280.11	$61.98B	1.89	1.61 million shs	399,665 shs
STLD Steel Dynamics	$264.36 +0.3%	$249.50	$124.77 ▼ $288.74	$37.89B	1.52	1.24 million shs	335,889 shs
VALE Vale	$14.46 +1.0%	$14.94	$9.67 ▼ $17.94	$65.63B	0.47	29.51 million shs	14.29 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
MT ArcelorMittal	-0.21%	-1.94%	+11.54%	+14.43%	+123.30%
NUE Nucor	-0.81%	-0.60%	+19.81%	+17.14%	+97.61%
STLD Steel Dynamics	-1.83%	-0.53%	+15.44%	+11.22%	+115.42%
VALE Vale	-3.66%	-3.56%	-0.93%	-15.04%	+40.38%

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
MT ArcelorMittal	$74.45 +1.0%	$66.69	$31.93 ▼ $75.66	$57.70B	1.53	1.87 million shs	922,967 shs
NUE Nucor	$272.16 +0.1%	$246.40	$131.32 ▼ $280.11	$61.98B	1.89	1.61 million shs	399,665 shs
STLD Steel Dynamics	$264.36 +0.3%	$249.50	$124.77 ▼ $288.74	$37.89B	1.52	1.24 million shs	335,889 shs
VALE Vale	$14.46 +1.0%	$14.94	$9.67 ▼ $17.94	$65.63B	0.47	29.51 million shs	14.29 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
MT ArcelorMittal	-0.21%	-1.94%	+11.54%	+14.43%	+123.30%
NUE Nucor	-0.81%	-0.60%	+19.81%	+17.14%	+97.61%
STLD Steel Dynamics	-1.83%	-0.53%	+15.44%	+11.22%	+115.42%
VALE Vale	-3.66%	-3.56%	-0.93%	-15.04%	+40.38%

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
MT ArcelorMittal	2.50	Moderate Buy	$72.40	-2.75% Downside
NUE Nucor	2.75	Moderate Buy	$273.31	0.42% Upside
STLD Steel Dynamics	2.67	Moderate Buy	$259.09	-1.99% Downside
VALE Vale	2.27	Hold	$16.00	10.65% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest VALE, NUE, MT, and STLD Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
8/11/2026	VALE Vale	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Neutral	$16.50
8/10/2026	STLD Steel Dynamics	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Neutral	$165.00 ➝ $276.00
8/5/2026	MT ArcelorMittal	Morgan Stanley Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Overweight
8/5/2026	VALE Vale	Bank of America Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Buy ➝ Neutral	$18.00 ➝ $16.00
8/4/2026	MT ArcelorMittal	Citigroup Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Buy
8/3/2026	VALE Vale	Barclays Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Equal Weight	$16.75 ➝ $17.00
7/31/2026	MT ArcelorMittal	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Buy (B-)
7/31/2026	MT ArcelorMittal	Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Buy	$75.00
7/31/2026	MT ArcelorMittal	Wells Fargo & Company Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Equal Weight	$62.00 ➝ $69.00
7/30/2026	VALE Vale	Zacks Research Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Hold ➝ Strong Sell
7/29/2026	NUE Nucor	BMO Capital Markets Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Outperform	$285.00 ➝ $295.00

(Data available from 8/12/2023 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
MT ArcelorMittal	$61.35B	0.94	$7.64 per share	9.74	$73.32 per share	1.02
NUE Nucor	$32.49B	1.91	$14.15 per share	19.23	$102.16 per share	2.66
STLD Steel Dynamics	$18.18B	2.08	$11.71 per share	22.58	$64.33 per share	4.11
VALE Vale	$38.40B	1.71	$2.33 per share	6.20	$8.58 per share	1.69

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
MT ArcelorMittal	$3.15B	$2.36	31.55	10.46	0.57	2.88%	4.20%	2.42%	N/A
NUE Nucor	$1.74B	$12.54	21.70	14.18	0.61	7.99%	12.73%	8.03%	10/26/2026 (Estimated)
STLD Steel Dynamics	$1.19B	$11.03	23.97	13.43	0.51	7.83%	18.12%	9.81%	10/19/2026 (Estimated)
VALE Vale	$2.35B	$0.49	29.51	6.89	N/A	5.11%	19.87%	8.58%	10/29/2026 (Estimated)

Latest VALE, NUE, MT, and STLD Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
7/30/2026	Q2 2026	VALE Vale	$0.4622	$0.36	-$0.1022	$0.31	$10.47 billion	$10.24 billion
7/27/2026	Q2 2026	NUE Nucor	$4.46	$4.84	+$0.38	$5.04	$10.15 billion	$10.40 billion
7/21/2026	Q2 2026	STLD Steel Dynamics	$3.63	$3.69	+$0.06	$3.69	$5.56 billion	$6.09 billion

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	5-Year Annualized Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
MT ArcelorMittal	$0.51	0.69%	N/A	21.61%	N/A
NUE Nucor	$2.24	0.82%	+6.54%	17.86%	52 Years
STLD Steel Dynamics	$2.12	0.80%	+14.87%	19.22%	13 Years
VALE Vale	$0.66	4.61%	+32.73%	134.69%	N/A

Latest VALE, NUE, MT, and STLD Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
7/31/2026	VALE Vale	special	$0.3088		8/13/2026	8/13/2026	9/10/2026
6/9/2026	NUE Nucor	quarterly	$0.56	1.01%	6/30/2026	6/30/2026	8/11/2026

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
MT ArcelorMittal	0.21	1.43	0.57
NUE Nucor	0.27	2.51	1.36
STLD Steel Dynamics	0.45	3.18	1.45
VALE Vale	0.45	1.19	0.77

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
MT ArcelorMittal	9.29%
NUE Nucor	76.48%
STLD Steel Dynamics	82.41%
VALE Vale	21.85%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
MT ArcelorMittal	0.06%
NUE Nucor	0.62%
STLD Steel Dynamics	6.60%
VALE Vale	N/A

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
MT ArcelorMittal	125,554	775.00 million	774.54 million	Optionable
NUE Nucor	33,000	227.74 million	226.33 million	Optionable
STLD Steel Dynamics	14,400	143.33 million	133.87 million	Optionable
VALE Vale	65,805	4.54 billion	4.54 billion	Optionable

VALE, NUE, MT, and STLD Headlines

Recent News About These Companies

Vale S.A. Announces Special Dividend of $0.31 (NYSE:VALE)

August 11 at 7:29 AM | marketbeat.com

Vale S.A. $VALE Shares Sold by Assenagon Asset Management S.A.

August 8, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Quantinno Capital Management LP Has $4.87 Million Position in Vale S.A. $VALE

August 7, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Bank of America Reaffirms "Neutral" Rating for Vale (NYSE:VALE)

August 7, 2026 | americanbankingnews.com

Vale Disputes Brazilian Mining Royalty Charges, Affirms Compliance

August 6, 2026 | tipranks.com

Vale Strengthens Board Independence With New Governance Appointments

August 5, 2026 | tipranks.com

Vale Tightens Governance With New Fiscal Council Regulations

August 5, 2026 | tipranks.com

Barclays Forecasts Strong Price Appreciation for Vale (NYSE:VALE) Stock

August 5, 2026 | americanbankingnews.com

Will Bartolomeo’s Board Appointment Reshape Albemarle’s (ALB) Energy Storage Strategy?

August 4, 2026 | finance.yahoo.com

Amundi Has $28.02 Million Stake in Vale S.A. $VALE

August 4, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Vale S.A. Earnings Call Highlights Robust Growth

August 3, 2026 | tipranks.com

Vale Q2 Earnings Call Spotlights Copper Growth and Cost Reset

August 3, 2026 | zacks.com

Janus Henderson Group PLC Purchases 648,407 Shares of Vale S.A. $VALE

August 3, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Bank of America Corp DE Buys 11,905,247 Shares of Vale S.A. $VALE

August 3, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Verus Capital Partners LLC Has $1.02 Million Stake in Vale S.A. $VALE

August 2, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Vale S.A. $VALE Shares Sold by Sei Investments Co.

August 2, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Vale S.A. (VALE) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

July 31, 2026 | seekingalpha.com

Vale S.A. 2026 Q2 - Results - Earnings Call Presentation

July 31, 2026 | seekingalpha.com

Vale Launches New 100 Million-Share Buyback Program to Bolster Capital Discipline

July 31, 2026 | tipranks.com

Vale S.A. Details Governance Compliance and Shareholder Protections in July 2026 Report

July 31, 2026 | tipranks.com

Vale Strengthens Board Leadership with New Vice Chairman and Lead Independent Director

July 31, 2026 | tipranks.com

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VALE, NUE, MT, and STLD Company Descriptions

ArcelorMittal NYSE:MT

$74.45 +0.74 (+1.00%)

As of 03:04 PM Eastern

ArcelorMittal S.A., together with its subsidiaries, operates as integrated steel and mining companies in the United States, Europe, and internationally. It offers semi-finished flat products, including slabs; finished flat products comprising plates, hot- and cold-rolled coils and sheets, hot-dipped and electro-galvanized coils and sheets, tinplate, and color coated coils and sheets; semi-finished long products, such as blooms and billets; finished long products consisting of bars, wire-rods, structural sections, rails, sheet piles, and wire-products; and seamless and welded pipes and tubes. The company also provides mining products, such as iron ore lumps, fines, concentrates, pellets, and sinter feeds; and coking coal. It sells its products to various customers in the automotive, appliance, engineering, construction, energy, and machinery industries through a centralized marketing organization, as well as distributors. The company has iron ore mining activities in Brazil, Bosnia, Canada, Liberia, Mexico, South Africa, and Ukraine. ArcelorMittal S.A. was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg.

Nucor NYSE:NUE

$272.16 +0.21 (+0.08%)

As of 03:02 PM Eastern

Nucor Corporation engages in manufacture and sale of steel and steel products. It 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; bar steel products, such as blooms, billets, concrete reinforcing and merchant bars, and engineered special bar quality products; and engages in the steel trading and rebar distribution businesses. This segment sells its products to steel service centers, fabricators, and manufacturers in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The Steel Products segment offers steel joists and joist girders, steel decks, and galvanized torque tubes for used 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. It markets its products through in-house sales force; and internal distribution and trading companies. Nucor Corporation was founded in 1905 and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Steel Dynamics NASDAQ:STLD

$264.36 +0.67 (+0.25%)

As of 03:02 PM Eastern

Steel Dynamics, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a steel producer and metal recycler in the United States. The Steel Operations segment offers hot rolled, cold rolled, and coated steel products; parallel flange beams and channel sections, flat bars, large unequal leg angles, and reinforcing steel bars, as well as standard strength carbon, intermediate alloy hardness, and premium grade rail products; engineered special-bar-quality products, merchant-bar-quality products, and other engineered round steel bars; channels, angles, flats, merchant rounds, and reinforcing steel bars; and specialty shapes and light structural steel products. This segment also engages in turning, polishing, straightening, chamfering, precision saw-cutting, and heat treating of bar products. Its products are used in construction, automotive, manufacturing, transportation, heavy and agriculture equipment, and pipe and tube markets. The Metals Recycling Operations segment is involved in the ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal processing, transportation, marketing, brokerage, and scrap management services. Its ferrous products include heavy melting steel, busheling, bundled scrap, shredded scrap, steel turnings, and cast-iron products; and nonferrous products comprise aluminum, brass, copper, stainless steel, and other nonferrous metals. The Steel Fabrication Operations segment produces steel non-residential building components, such as steel joists, girders, trusses, and steel deck products for non-residential steel fabricators, metal building companies, general construction contractors, developers, owners, brokers, and governmental entities, as well as e-commerce warehouses, data centers, metal buildings, and education and commercial building projects. The Aluminum Operations segment offers recycled aluminum flat rolled products. The company also exports its products. Steel Dynamics, Inc. was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Vale NYSE:VALE

$14.46 +0.14 (+0.98%)

As of 03:04 PM Eastern

Vale S.A., together with its subsidiaries, produces and sells iron ore and iron ore pellets for use as raw materials in steelmaking in Brazil and internationally. The company operates through Iron Solutions and Energy Transition Materials segments. The Iron Solutions segment produces and extracts iron ore and pellets, manganese, and other ferrous products; and provides related logistic services. The Energy Transition Materials segment produces and extracts nickel used to produce stainless steel, electric vehicles, and metal alloys; and its by-products, such as gold, silver, cobalt, precious metals, platinum, and others, as well as copper used in the construction sector to produce pipes and electrical wires. The company was formerly known as Companhia Vale do Rio Doce and changed its name to Vale S.A. in May 2009. Vale S.A. was founded in 1942 and is headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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