NUE

$186.50

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Valuation Details
Default assumptions: 10Y forecast, 9% market return, 2.5% terminal growth, 5.83% trendline growth.
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$372.58

With 20% Margin of Safety (MoS):

$298.06
59.82% upside
Capital Efficiency
Average Quarterly ROIC
2.17%
Cost of Capital (estimated)8%
Value StatusUnderperforming Capital

The company is earning below its required return. This may indicate inefficient use of capital or excess cash that isn't being reinvested.

Complete historical ROIC is available with
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Fundamental Score
69
BullishWeighted across 6 signals
DCF Discount
59.8% discount to price
100
FCF Yield
15.6% trailing FCF yield
100
ROIC vs WACC
ROIC 2.2% vs WACC 8.0% (0.3x)
14
Net Debt / FCF
0.7x net debt to FCF
87
Buybacks
Share count shrinking
80
FCF CAGR (5Y)
9.4% 5Y FCF CAGR
72
Strengths: DCF Discount, FCF Yield. Concerns: ROIC vs WACC.
Narrative Score
49
Weak
Weighted across 6 recent drivers · Last 30 daysVs 6-Month Baseline: High (94th pct)
Trend: StableConfidence: 89%Updated: 4h ago
Sources: 62 (News 55 · Analyst 7)
Drivers
2 earnings miss-0.1
16 regulatory scrutiny-0.0
37 news sentiment-0.0
Analyst downgrades-0.0
Analyst upgrades+0.0
5 analyst reiterations0.0
Other Metrics
P/E24.5
Profit Margin5.4%
Owner Earnings$6.65b
One Dollar Premise29.00%
Debt/Equity0.63
Current Ratio2.75
PEG4.163
Free Cash Flow (in millions)
20062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
$2,590$2,456$3,518$1,564$1,205$1,470$2,148$2,275$2,011$2,543$2,355$1,504$3,376$4,287$4,240$7,853$12,020$9,326$7,152$6,656
How Intrinziq Estimates Fair Value

Intrinziq estimates Nucor Corporation's intrinsic value using a discounted cash flow (DCF) model based on free cash flow trends and a market-based discount rate. The model projects future cash flows over ten years and discounts them using a market return assumption to estimate fair value.

Nucor CorporationBasic Materials

Nucor Corporation manufactures and sells steel and steel products. The company's 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 products; and bar steel products, such as blooms, billets, concrete reinforcing and merchant bars, and special bar quality products. It also 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. Its Steel Products segment offers hollow structural section steel tubing products, electrical conduits, steel racking, steel joists and joist girders, steel decks, fabricated concrete reinforcing steel products, cold finished steel products, steel fasteners, metal building systems, insulated metal panels, steel grating and expanded metal products, and wire and wire mesh products primarily for use in nonresidential construction applications. This segment also engages in the piling distribution business. The company's Raw Materials segment produces direct reduced iron (DRI); brokers ferrous and nonferrous metals, pig iron, hot briquetted iron, and DRI; supplies ferro-alloys; and processes ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal, as well as engages in the natural gas drilling operations. 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 serves agriculture, automotive, construction, energy and transmission, oil and gas, heavy equipment, infrastructure, and transportation industries through its in-house sales force; and internal distribution and trading companies. Nucor Corporation was incorporated in 1958 and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Last updated: Feb 06, 2026
Data sources: Financial Modeling Prep
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