NYSE:NUE - Nucor Stock Price, News, & Analysis

Nucor trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "NUE."

Nucor announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, November 30th. Shareholders of record on Monday, December 31st will be paid a dividend of $0.40 per share on Monday, February 11th. This represents a $1.60 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.72%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, December 28th. This is a positive change from Nucor's previous quarterly dividend of $0.38. View Nucor's Dividend History.

Nucor declared that its Board of Directors has initiated a share buyback plan on Thursday, September 6th 2018, which allows the company to repurchase $2,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to reacquire up to 10% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are typically an indication that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

Nucor Co. (NYSE:NUE) issued its earnings results on Thursday, October, 18th. The basic materials company reported $2.33 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $2.35 by $0.02. The basic materials company had revenue of $6.74 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $6.64 billion. Nucor had a return on equity of 20.72% and a net margin of 8.79%. The business's revenue was up 30.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm earned $0.83 EPS. View Nucor's Earnings History.

Nucor is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, January 29th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Nucor.

Nucor will be holding an earnings conference call on Tuesday, January 29th at 2:00 PM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

Nucor updated its fourth quarter earnings guidance on Friday, December, 14th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $1.90-1.95 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $1.99.

13 brokerages have issued twelve-month price targets for Nucor's shares. Their forecasts range from $59.00 to $80.00. On average, they expect Nucor's stock price to reach $71.5455 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 21.8% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Nucor.

13 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Nucor in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 10 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Nucor.

Press coverage about NUE stock has trended somewhat positive this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research group rates the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Nucor earned a media sentiment score of 0.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news articles about the basic materials company a news buzz of 2.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is very unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days.

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Nucor's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Personal Capital Advisors Corp (0.17%), KAMES CAPITAL plc (0.05%), Retirement Systems of Alabama (0.05%), Nisa Investment Advisors LLC (0.04%), Centre Asset Management LLC (0.04%) and Highland Capital Management LLC (0.03%). Company insiders that own Nucor stock include D Chad Utermark, David A Sumoski, James D Frias, John J Ferriola, Ladd R Hall, Leon J Topalian, Raymond S Napolitan Jr, Robert J Stratman and Victoria F Haynes. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Nucor.

NUE stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Retirement Systems of Alabama, KAMES CAPITAL plc, Gulf International Bank UK Ltd, RNC Capital Management LLC, Oakbrook Investments LLC, Meeder Asset Management Inc., First Citizens Bank & Trust Co. and Carroll Financial Associates Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Nucor company stock in the last year include D Chad Utermark, David A Sumoski, James D Frias, John J Ferriola, Leon J Topalian, Raymond S Napolitan Jr and Victoria F Haynes. View Insider Buying and Selling for Nucor.

NUE stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Virtu Financial LLC, Park National Corp OH, QUANTRES ASSET MANAGEMENT Ltd, DNB Asset Management AS, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC, Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, State of Alaska Department of Revenue and Hudson Capital Management LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Nucor.

Shares of NUE can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of NUE stock can currently be purchased for approximately $58.73.

Nucor has a market capitalization of $18.13 billion and generates $20.25 billion in revenue each year. The basic materials company earns $1.32 billion in net income (profit) each year or $3.51 on an earnings per share basis. Nucor employs 25,100 workers across the globe.

The official website for Nucor is http://www.nucor.com.

Nucor's mailing address is 1915 REXFORD ROAD, CHARLOTTE NC, 28211. The basic materials company can be reached via phone at 704-366-7000.