Steel Dynamics (STLD) closed at $240.54 on Oct 16, 2026, down 0.1% on the day. The stock is down 2.0% over the past month, up 4.4% over three months, up 42.0% year to date and up 65.2% over the past year. It trades 16.7% below its 52-week high of $288.74 and 66.6% above its 52-week low of $144.36. The close sits above its 50-day moving average ($239.39) and above its 200-day moving average ($220.06).
NextPick tracks STLD in its Steel/Iron Ore basket alongside RIO, NUE, MT, 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 STLD ranks 3rd of 12 basket members by price change.
STLD is scheduled to report earnings on Oct 19, 2026, after market close. Over its last 8 reports the stock moved an average of 3.3% on the first trading day after earnings, beating the options-implied move in 1 of 8.
STLD options were pricing 40% at-the-money implied volatility on Oct 12, 2026, an IV rank of 54 over the past year.
Steel Dynamics is scheduled to report on Oct 19, 2026, after market close.
Over the last 8 reports, STLD moved an average of 3.3% on the first trading day after earnings. The move beat the options-implied move in 1 of 8 reports.
Yes — the Oct 16, 2026 close of $240.54 is 9.3% above the 200-day average of $220.06.
STLD closed 16.7% below its 52-week high of $288.74.
NextPick groups STLD with RIO, NUE, MT, RS and PKX in its Steel/Iron Ore basket.
Steel Dynamics, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a steel producer and metal recycler in the United States. It operates through four segments: Steel Operations, Metals Recycling Operations, Steel Fabrication Operations, and Aluminum Operations. The Steel Operations segment offers hot rolled, cold rolled, and coated steel products; parallel flange beams and channel sections, large unequal leg angles, and reinforcing steel bars, standard strength carbon, intermediate alloy hardness, and premium grade rail products; engineered special-bar-quality products, merchant-bar-quality products, and other engineered round steel bars; channels, angles, flats, merchant rounds, and reinforcing steel bars; and specialty shapes and light structural steel products. This segment also engages in turning, polishing, straightening, chamfering, precision saw-cutting, and heat treating of bar products. Its products are used in construction, automotive, manufacturing, transportation, heavy and agricultural equipment, energy, and pipe and tube markets. The Metals Recycling Operations segment is involved in the ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal processing, transportation, marketing, brokerage, and scrap management services. Its ferrous products include heavy melting steel, busheling, bundled scrap, shredded scrap, steel turnings, and cast-iron products; and nonferrous products comprise aluminum, brass, copper, stainless steel, and other nonferrous metals. The Steel Fabrication Operations segment produces steel non-residential building components, such as steel joists, joist girders, and steel deck products for non-residential steel fabricators, metal building companies, general construction contractors, developers, property owners, brokers, and governmental entities. The Aluminum Operations segment offers recycled aluminum flat rolled products. The company also exports its products. Steel Dynamics, Inc. was incorporated in 1993 and is headquartered in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
