NUE Nucordata gap · 92% coverage
Materials · Steel · close $256.29 (2026-10-16) · latest quarter in EDGAR: 2026-07-04
Nucor (NUE) has a ThetaGrade House Rating of 63/100 (grade A), ranking #6 of 57 in Materials. Its strongest pillars are balance sheet (76) and growth (74); its weakest is cash flow (15). Data gap: 2 factors without usable data, so 92% of the method weight is covered. TTM revenue growth is 17.2% and operating margin 11.8%.
Data as of .
Data gap
No usable data for: Consensus score (1–5), 90-day net rating shift. Data gap: no usable data for this factor, so it is left out and its weight is shared among the factors that do have data (no value is imputed). 92% of the full method weight is backed by data.
Analyst sentiment
weight 7.5% · no data · —| Consensus score (1–5) (0.0%)data gap | derived | — |
| 90-day net rating shift (0.0%)data gap | derived | — |
Growth
weight 30.83% (→33.3%) · 74| Revenue growth YoY (TTM) (13.3%) | 17.2% | 72 |
| EPS growth YoY (TTM) (13.3%) | 126.0% | 90 |
| Revenue acceleration (6.7%) | 1.7% | 48 |
Profitability
weight 18.5% (→20.0%) · 64| Operating margin (10.7%) | 11.8% | 45 |
| 4Q gross-margin change (9.3%) | 5.0% | 85 |
Balance sheet
weight 18.5% (→20.0%) · 76| Net debt / EBITDA (10.7%) | 0.33× | 79 |
| Current ratio (5.3%) | 2.51 | 64 |
| Interest coverage (4.0%) | 25.00× | 85 |
Cash flow
weight 12.33% (→13.3%) · 15| FCF margin (6.7%) | -0.6% | 16 |
| FCF yield (6.7%) | -0.3% | 15 |
Valuation
weight 12.33% (→13.3%) · 59| P/E (inverted) (6.7%) | 20.47× | 50 |
| EV/Sales (inverted) (6.7%) | 1.66× | 68 |
Technicals (EOD)
| RSI(14) | 56.5 |
| EMA 9 / 21 | 252.33 / 250.55 · crossed up 4d ago |
| 200-day SMA | 219.11 |
| Volume vs 20d avg | 0.86× |
| 20-day return | -3.3% |
Exit-rule monitor
- EXITBalance-sheet stress: negative free cash flow (latest FY)
Data source per metric (SEC XBRL tag or derivation): Revenue: RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax · Gross profit: Revenue − CostOfGoodsAndServicesSold · Operating income: Pretax income + interest expense (EBIT proxy) · Interest expense: InterestExpense · D&A: Depreciation · EPS: EarningsPerShareDiluted · Market cap: SEC shares (dei EntityCommonStockSharesOutstanding (cover page)) × EOD close · P/E: EOD close ÷ SEC TTM EPS (EarningsPerShareDiluted).
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FAQ
- What is NUE's House Rating?
- NUE scores 63 out of 100 (grade A) as of 2026-10-16, ranking #6 of 57 Materials stocks we cover.
- What do analysts say about NUE?
- We do not have enough analyst-sentiment data to score this stock.
- When does NUE report earnings next?
- NUE's next earnings report is estimated for about 2026-10-26 (window 2026-10-19 to 2026-11-02), based on its past SEC 8-K earnings filings. This is an estimate, not a company-confirmed date.
- Is NUE a buy?
- ThetaGrade does not give personal advice. The House Rating is an educational, rules-based summary of public data; see the methodology for how it is built.
Sources: SEC EDGAR filings (fetched 2026-10-18), Finnhub recommendation trends, Massive EOD prices. Scores are sector percentiles; a factor without usable data is a data gap: it is left out and the remaining weights are renormalized (nothing is imputed). Educational only. Methodology