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NUE vs WS

Side-by-side comparison of Nucor Corporation (NUE) and Worthington Steel Inc. (WS): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both NUE and WS operate in Steel/Iron Ore (Industrials), so they compete in similar markets.
  • NUE is the larger of the two at $58.70B, about 27.4x WS ($2.14B).
  • Over the past year, NUE is up 110.9% and WS is up 61.4% - NUE leads by 49.5 points.
  • NUE has been more active in the news (29 items in the past 4 weeks vs 13 for WS).
  • NUE has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 2 for WS).
PerformanceNUE+110.89%WS+61.42%
2025-06-03+0.00%2026-06-03
MetricNUEWS
Company
Nucor Corporation
Worthington Steel Inc.
Price
$257.84-0.34%
$42.34-4.23%
Market cap
$58.70B
$2.14B
1M return
+14.15%
+11.42%
1Y return
+110.89%
+61.42%
Industry
Steel/Iron Ore
Steel/Iron Ore
Exchange
NYSE
NYSE
IPO
2023
News (4w)
29
13
Recent ratings
25
2
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Nucor Corporation

Nucor Corporation manufactures and sells steel and steel products. It operates through 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 products; bar steel products, such as blooms, billets, concrete reinforcing and merchant bars, and special bar quality products. It also 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 hollow structural section steel tubing products, electrical conduits, steel joists and joist girders, steel decks, fabricated concrete reinforcing steel products, cold finished steel products, steel fasteners, metal building systems, steel grating and expanded metal products, and wire and wire mesh products primarily for use in nonresidential construction applications. This segment also engages 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; and processes ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal, as well as engages in the natural gas drilling operations. 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. The company offers its products through its in-house sales forces; and internal distribution and trading companies. The company was incorporated in 1958 and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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