Stock since the trade -6.5% · S&P 500 -0.2% · to Oct 5
The boss of Nucor sold $6.95M of Nucor shares. Nobody planned it ahead of time.
NUE · NYSE · Steel
Steel company based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
In the last 90 days, no insider of Nucor reported an open-market purchase and 6 open-market sales worth about $11.2M. Members of Congress disclosed 1 trade in its stock. The latest 13F reports cover the quarter ending Jun 30, 2026. Every figure links to its official SEC, House, Senate or USAspending record.
Last close, Oct 5, 2026
$251.41
Adjusted for splits and dividends
Last 12 months
+82.1%
S&P 500 +15.8% over the same dates
Market value
$57B
Last close × shares outstanding
Bets against the stock: 4.29M shares sold short (1.9% of shares outstanding), +4.5% vs the previous count, 4.2 days of normal trading to buy them back. FINRA, as of Sep 15, 2026.
Revenue
$10.4B
+23.0% vs the same quarter a year earlier
Free cash flow, last 12 months
$1.58B
This quarter $829M, a year earlier -$222M
Net debt
$3.91B
Debt $6.39B, cash $2.48B, at Jul 4, 2026
Net income, last 12 months
$2.88B
From the company's own quarterly and annual reports to the SEC. Free cash flow (cash from operations minus capital spending), net debt (debt minus cash) and 12-month totals are calculated by OQRO. Production rates, deliveries, approvals and guidance are in its results announcement of Jul 27, 2026.
Insiders buying, last 90 days
None
No open-market purchases reported
Insiders selling, last 90 days
6 sales
$11.2M sold. Insiders sell for many reasons.
New federal contracts, 12 months
None
Nothing found for this company
Revenue, fiscal 2025
$32.5B
+5.7% vs the year before
Net income, fiscal 2025
$1.74B
As reported in the annual filing
Shares outstanding
227M
As of Jul 4, 2026
In fiscal 2025 the company spent $700M buying back its own shares and $512M on dividends. Cash actually paid, from its cash-flow statement.
Stock since the trade -6.5% · S&P 500 -0.2% · to Oct 5
The boss of Nucor sold $6.95M of Nucor shares. Nobody planned it ahead of time.
Stock since the trade -6.5% · S&P 500 -0.2% · to Oct 5
The boss of Nucor sold $27K of Nucor shares. Nobody planned it ahead of time.
Stock since the trade -6.5% · S&P 500 -0.2% · to Oct 5
Nucor's Executive Vice President sold $1.4M of Nucor shares. Nobody planned it ahead of time.
Stock since the trade -6.5% · S&P 500 -0.2% · to Oct 5
Nucor's Executive Vice President sold $717K of Nucor shares. Nobody planned it ahead of time.
2 tracked managers disclosed the same change for Q2 2026. From a 13F filed Aug 14, 2026 covering holdings at Jun 30, 2026 — a quarter-end snapshot, not a live trade.
Prices are daily closes from Polygon.io. Company figures come from its own SEC filings. Past moves are not a forecast. OQRO reports what was filed and never tells you what to buy or sell.
Vanguard Capital Management
Schedule 13G: passive · filed Apr 30, 2026 · 16.7M shares
Vanguard Portfolio Management
Schedule 13G: passive · filed Apr 29, 2026 · 11.8M shares
Anyone owning more than 5% must file within days. Structured filings exist since December 2024, so older stakes that were never amended may be missing.
Last 12 months, adjusted daily closes
Adjusted close went from $135.59 on Oct 6, 2025 to $251.41 on Oct 5, 2026 (+85.4%). Disclosed activity in the last 12 months: 0 insider purchases, 47 insider sales, 1 Congress purchase, 0 Congress sales, 0 fund reports of opening or adding and 2 fund reports of trimming or selling out (13F, quarter-end snapshots).
15 certified in FY2026 Q3, vs 18 a year earlier. 15 positions in total, median offered wage $101K a year.
Labor condition applications for H-1B workers certified by the Department of Labor, counted by decision date (FY2026 Q3: Apr 1, 2026 to Jun 30, 2026, the latest quarter published). A certified application is a step before a visa petition, not a hire or a visa, and one application can cover several positions. Matched by employer ID number or name.
Short sale volume: 50.8% of the volume reported to FINRA over the last 20 trading days was marked short, close to its 1-year average of 52.4%. FINRA daily files, to Oct 5, 2026.
Short sale volume is not short interest. It counts trades marked short, including market makers selling short to fill buy orders, so it is a share of daily trading, not a count of bets against the stock.