Nucor (NYSE:NUE – Get Free Report) is one of 1,984 publicly-traded companies in the “Metals & Mining” industry, but how does it compare to its rivals? We will compare Nucor to similar companies based on the strength of its earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, risk and dividends.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Nucor and its rivals, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Nucor | 0 | 3 | 14 | 1 | 2.89 |
| Nucor Competitors | 6403 | 22589 | 32289 | 1796 | 2.47 |
Nucor presently has a consensus price target of $287.38, indicating a potential upside of 7.29%. As a group, “Metals & Mining” companies have a potential upside of 30.20%. Given Nucor’s rivals higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Nucor has less favorable growth aspects than its rivals.
Dividends
Nucor pays an annual dividend of $2.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Nucor pays out 14.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Metals & Mining” companies pay a dividend yield of 10.5% and pay out 10.8% of their earnings in the form of a dividend. Nucor has raised its dividend for 52 consecutive years. Nucor lags its rivals as a dividend stock, given its lower dividend yield and higher payout ratio.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
76.5% of Nucor shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.8% of shares of all “Metals & Mining” companies are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Nucor shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 17.6% of shares of all “Metals & Mining” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares Nucor and its rivals gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Net Income | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Nucor | $32.49 billion | $1.74 billion | 17.05 |
| Nucor Competitors | $4.65 billion | $278.94 million | -45.02 |
Nucor has higher revenue and earnings than its rivals. Nucor is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its rivals, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.
Profitability
This table compares Nucor and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Nucor | 9.26% | 15.53% | 9.78% |
| Nucor Competitors | -1,168,050,136,845,918,000.00% | -53.13% | -2.10% |
Volatility & Risk
Nucor has a beta of 1.81, meaning that its share price is 81% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nucor’s rivals have a beta of 1.05, meaning that their average share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Nucor beats its rivals on 11 of the 15 factors compared.
Nucor Company Profile
Nucor Corporation engages in manufacture and sale of steel and steel products. It operates in three segments: steel mills, steel products, and raw materials. The 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 structural steel products; bar steel products, such as blooms, billets, concrete reinforcing and merchant bars, and engineered special bar quality products; and 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. The Steel Products segment offers steel joists and joist girders, steel decks, and galvanized torque tubes for used in solar arrays, hollow structural section steel tubing, electrical conduit, fabricated concrete reinforcing steel, cold finished steel, steel fasteners, steel grating and expanded metal, wire and wire mesh, metal building systems, insulated metal panels, steel racking, overhead doors, and utility towers and structures for communications and energy transmission. This segment is also involved in the piling distribution business. The Raw Materials segment produces direct reduced iron (DRI); brokers ferrous and nonferrous metals, pig iron, hot briquetted iron, and DRI; supplies ferro-alloys; processes ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal; and engages in the natural gas production and industrial gas business. 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 markets its products through in-house sales force; and internal distribution and trading companies. Nucor Corporation was founded in 1905 and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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