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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).
- 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
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.
Latest NUE
- Executive Vice President Query Kenneth Rex sold $3,400,843 worth of shares (13,529 units at $251.37), decreasing direct ownership by 17% to 64,685 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director West Nadja was granted 755 shares, increasing direct ownership by 8% to 10,703 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Lamach Michael W was granted 755 shares, increasing direct ownership by 20% to 4,555 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Koellner Laurette T was granted 755 shares, increasing direct ownership by 4% to 21,193 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Kearney Christopher J was granted 755 shares, increasing direct ownership by 2% to 46,753 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Gangestad Nicholas C was granted 755 shares, increasing direct ownership by 21% to 4,315 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Dempsey Patrick was granted 755 shares, increasing direct ownership by 4% to 18,325 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Clayton Norma was granted 755 shares, increasing direct ownership by 15% to 5,826 units (SEC Form 4)
- Chair and CEO Topalian Leon J was granted 12,028 shares and covered exercise/tax liability with 17,715 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 4% to 138,154 units (SEC Form 4)
- Executive Vice President Sumoski David A covered exercise/tax liability with 6,668 shares and was granted 3,528 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 1% to 240,199 units (SEC Form 4)
Latest WS
- Chief Operating Officer Klingler Jeffrey R exercised 20,236 shares at a strike of $17.38 and sold $886,669 worth of shares (20,236 units at $43.82) (SEC Form 4)
- Chief Financial Officer Adams Timothy A exercised 2,367 shares at a strike of $13.10 and sold $100,059 worth of shares (2,367 units at $42.27) (SEC Form 4)
- Worthington Steel Inc. filed SEC Form 8-K: Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets, Regulation FD Disclosure, Financial Statements and Exhibits
- Worthington Steel Completes Acquisition of Kloeckner & Co and Announces Intention to Launch Delisting Tender Offer
- Worthington Steel Inc. filed SEC Form 8-K: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement, Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation
- SEC Form 144 filed by Worthington Steel Inc.
- Worthington Steel to Webcast Discussion of Fourth Quarter 2026 Results on June 25
- SEC Form SD filed by Worthington Steel Inc.
- Worthington Steel Prices $700 Million Senior Secured Notes Offering
- President Flat Rolled Stl Proc Larivey Clifford sold $445,249 worth of shares (11,105 units at $40.09) and exercised 4,929 shares at a strike of $22.21, decreasing direct ownership by 9% to 64,308 units (SEC Form 4)