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Nucor NUE Net margin

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Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$9.5B+21.3%
Gross profit$1.5B+148%
Net income$743.0M+376%
EPS (diluted)$3.23+382%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$2.2B-29.5%
Total debt$134.0M-16.3%
Total equity$21.5B+6.9%
Total assets$35.6B+2.7%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$886.0M+143%
CapEx$661.0M-23.1%
Free cash flow$225.0M+145%

Valuation

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Market cap$57.53B+38.8%
Enterprise value$55.44B+47.2%
P/E24.7×-6.3×
P/S1.7×+0.3×

Profitability

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Gross margin14%+3.5pp

Returns & leverage

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Return on equity11.2%+4.7pp
Debt / equity0.0×
Current ratio2.9×+0.4×

Where this comes from

Calculated from Nucor’s reported figures.

Based on trailing twelve months.

The official record: Nucor’s 10-Q, filed May 13, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

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Questions, answered.

What is Nucor's net margin?
Nucor (NUE) reported net margin of 6.8% in Q1 2026.
How has Nucor's net margin changed year-over-year?
Nucor's net margin increased by 55.2% year-over-year, from 4.4% to 6.8%.
What is the long-term trend for Nucor's net margin?
Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), Nucor's net margin has grown at a -22.8% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 53.9% to 19.2%.
What does net margin mean?
The share of every sales dollar that becomes bottom-line profit.
How do you interpret net margin?
Higher is better, but net margin mixes operating performance with financing and tax effects and one-off items — read it alongside operating margin to separate the operating story from the rest.
How does net margin compare across companies?
Comparable across peers but sensitive to leverage and tax structure; two operationally identical firms can show different net margins purely from financing.