Nucor Corporation

NUE Basic Materials Steel

Nucor Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $32.5 billion, up 5.73% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+32.0%
EPS
+147.4%
Free cash flow
+549.5%
Total debt
+3.50%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

278.09 4.22 +1.54%
Market cap
$62.1B
P/E
16.9×
Fwd P/E
13.8×
Dividend yield
0.81%
F-score
6/9
Altman Z
4.44
Beneish M
−2.45
Dividend safety
57/100

Nucor Corporation (NUE) Price to free cash flow

Alert me on Price to free cash flow

As of 2 November 2026, Nucor Corporation (NUE) trades at a price to free cash flow of 23.4×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 0.0× (March 2026) to 104× (June 2026); the current reading is higher than 84% of that period. That is below the Steel industry median of 25.6× and above the Basic Materials sector median of 18.1×.

Price to free cash flow, daily

Embed this chart

Annual newest first

Period Price to free cash flow Change
FY2025 0.0× —
FY2024 33.8× 278.86%
FY2023 8.9× 111.62%
FY2022 4.2× (41.57%)
FY2021 7.2× (46.56%)
FY2020 13.5× 8.02%
FY2019 12.5× 10.20%
FY2018 11.3× (66.32%)
FY2017 33.7× 105.72%
FY2016 16.4× 131.12%

Quarterly newest first

Period Price to free cash flow Change
Sep 2026 19.6× (37.80%)
Jun 2026 31.6× (52.04%)
Mar 2026 65.8× —
Dec 2025 0.0× —
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 0.0× High 104×
Ten-year median 11.8×
Current reading's percentile 84

Price to free cash flow against peers

Company Price to free cash flow
MT ArcelorMittal compare n/m
SIM Grupo Simec, S.A. de C.V. compare n/m
TX Ternium S.A. compare n/m
CLF Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. compare n/m
PKX POSCO Holdings Inc. compare n/m
GGB Gerdau S.A. compare 14.0×
NUE Nucor Corporation 23.4×
STLD Steel Dynamics, Inc. compare 33.0×
RS Reliance, Inc. compare 44.7×
Steel industry median 25.6×
Basic Materials sector median 18.1×
Market median 14.4×

What Price to free cash flow is

Price to Free Cash Flow Ratio shows how much investors pay for each dollar of cash a company generates after its capital spending.

Stock Price ÷ ((Operating Cash Flow (TTM) + Property, Plant, Equipment Change (Net) (TTM) + Intangible Assets Change (Net) (TTM)) ÷ (Shares (Basic, Weighted) (latest quarter)))

The full definition of Price to free cash flow →

More on NUE