Nucor manufactures steel and steel products. Co. has three segments: steel mills, which produces sheet steel, plate steel, structural steel and bar steel; steel products, which produces hollow structural section steel tubing, electrical conduit, steel racking, steel joists and joist girders, steel deck, fabricated concrete reinforcing steel, cold finished steel, steel fasteners, metal building systems, insulated metal panels, steel grating and expanded metal, and wire and wire mesh; and raw materials, which produces direct reduced iron (DRI), brokers ferrous and nonferrous metals, pig iron, hot briquetted iron and DRI, supplies ferro-alloys, and processes ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal. More details about Nucor at:
http://www.nucor.com.
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Should Nucor shares be counted among the
Top 10 Best Cheap Dividend Stocks label? To start, we see that the recent trading price for NUE stock is $197.90 and the dividend yield is 1.09% (as of 3/28/2024). The most recent quarter's (MRQ) earnings result, annualized, was $12.64/share. Looking at the sum total of quarterly earnings across the trailing twelve month (TTM) period, Nucor produced $17.99/share. And taking the median quarterly result across the TTM period, and annualizing it, results in $18.04/share. Comparing the current indicated annual dividend rate of $2.16 against that median result, we calculate a dividend payout ratio of 12.0%. Comparing the company's various earnings metrics against the stock price, we end up with a PE ratio of 11.0 for the TTM Median method, 15.7 for price to earnings using MRQ annualized, and 11.0 for current price/TTM earnings. Based on NUE's history, that recent TTM PE is low relative to the historical average, with the recent PE 31.7% lower than the average (TTM method) of 16.1.