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Steel Dynamics STLD Price / earnings

Price / earnings at other companies

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16.5×-4.2×
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19.5×-0.3×
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16.9×+7.7×
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41×+15.7×
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25×+7.9×
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46.7×+28.2×

Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$5.2B+19.1%
Gross profit$763.2M+56.9%
Operating income$538.0M+95.5%
Net income$403.4M+85.8%
EPS (diluted)$2.78+93.1%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$556.5M-53.1%
Total debt$4.2B+0.1%
Total equity$9.2B+3.9%
Total assets$16.7B+5.0%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$148.3M-2.8%
CapEx$138.0M-54.8%
Free cash flow$10.3M+107%

Valuation

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Market cap$38.96B+38.9%
Enterprise value$42.6B+36.5%
P/S2.1×+0.4×

Profitability

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Gross margin14%+0.6pp
Operating margin9.1%+0.6pp
Net margin7.2%+0.4pp

Returns & leverage

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Return on equity15.3%+2.2pp
Debt / equity0.5×0.0×
Current ratio3.1×+0.4×

Where this comes from

Calculated from Steel Dynamics’s reported figures.

Based on the most recent quarter.

The official record: Steel Dynamics’s 10-Q, filed April 27, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

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Questions, answered.

What is Steel Dynamics's price / earnings?
Steel Dynamics (STLD) reported price / earnings of 19× in Q1 2026.
How has Steel Dynamics's price / earnings changed year-over-year?
Steel Dynamics's price / earnings increased by 18.5% year-over-year, from 16× to 19×.
What is the long-term trend for Steel Dynamics's price / earnings?
Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), Steel Dynamics's price / earnings has grown at a 25.9% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 29.2× to 73.4×.
What does price / earnings mean?
How many dollars investors pay for each dollar of the company's annual profit.
How do you interpret price / earnings?
Lower can mean cheaper — or that the market expects earnings to fall. High multiples embed growth expectations. Meaningless when earnings are negative, so it is suppressed there.
How does price / earnings compare across companies?
Compare against the company's own history and sector peers, not across sectors with different growth and risk profiles.