Nucor (NUE) closed at $256.33 on Oct 16, 2026, up 0.6% on the day. The stock is down 3.3% over the past month, up 11.1% over three months, up 57.2% year to date and up 88.1% over the past year. It trades 8.5% below its 52-week high of $280.11 and 92.3% above its 52-week low of $133.33. The close sits above its 50-day moving average ($253.92) and above its 200-day moving average ($219.04).
NextPick tracks NUE in its Steel/Iron Ore basket alongside RIO, MT, STLD, RS and PKX. As of Oct 16, 2026, the basket's money-flow score is 2 (neutral), and the basket is down 1.9% over five sessions. Over the past month NUE ranks 5th of 12 basket members by price change.
NUE is scheduled to report earnings on Oct 26, 2026, after market close. Over its last 8 reports the stock moved an average of 4.3% on the first trading day after earnings, beating the options-implied move in 2 of 8.
NUE options were pricing 40% at-the-money implied volatility on Oct 9, 2026, an IV rank of 80 over the past year.
Nucor is scheduled to report on Oct 26, 2026, after market close.
Over the last 8 reports, NUE moved an average of 4.3% on the first trading day after earnings. The move beat the options-implied move in 2 of 8 reports.
Yes — the Oct 16, 2026 close of $256.33 is 17.0% above the 200-day average of $219.04.
NUE closed 8.5% below its 52-week high of $280.11.
NextPick groups NUE with RIO, MT, STLD, RS and PKX in its Steel/Iron Ore basket.
Nucor Corporation engages in the manufacture and sale of steel and steel products. The company 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; and bar steel products, such as blooms, billets, concrete reinforcing and merchant bars, and engineered special bar quality products. This segment sells its products to steel service centers, fabricators, and manufacturers in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, as well as engages in the steel trading and rebar distribution businesses. The Steel Products segment offers steel joists and joist girders, steel decks, and galvanized torque tubes for use 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. Nucor Corporation was founded in 1905 and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
