Nucor forward PE NUE

Share price divided by analysts' consensus earnings for the next twelve months, since 2000.

Today, Oct 23, 2026: 11.8×
10-year median: 11.2×
Against its 10-year history: 56th; percentile: 0 is its lowest day, 100 its highest
10-year range: 2.1× to 33.0×
Peer median: 16.0×

Nucor's forward PE is 11.8× as of Oct 23, 2026.

That is above its ten-year median of 11.2×, close to the middle of its last ten years.

Over that time it ranged from 2.1× in Jan 2021 to 33.0× in Apr 2024.

The median for 3 steel stocks of a similar size is 16.0×.

Forward PE over time

median 11.2×

The dashed line is the 10-year median and the shaded band the middle half of its days.

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Year by year

Year	End of year	Low	High
2026 so far	11.8×	8.7×	12.7×
2025	11.1×	9.6×	20.5×
2024	19.3×	15.8×	33.0×
2023	16.4×	8.1×	16.8×
2022	7.4×	3.0×	8.6×
2021	3.7×	2.1×	4.1×
2020	3.3×	2.9×	28.2×
2019	29.4×	9.9×	29.9×
2018	9.6×	8.0×	11.7×
2017	10.7×	9.2×	19.0×
2016	18.0×	13.3×	22.4×
2015	19.0×	18.3×	42.5×
2014	36.3×	24.8×	40.3×
2013	29.3×	27.8×	38.1×
2012	34.0×	23.9×	34.8×
2011	25.5×	18.9×	27.8×
2010	27.4×	23.5×	144×
2009	93.3×	78.7×	207×
2008	31.1×	8.2×	59.1×
2007	9.8×	8.4×	14.9×

Against its peers

Companies in Steel nearest Nucor's size, closest first, today.

Company	Forward PE
NUENucor	11.8×
STLDSteel Dynamics	10.9×
RSReliance Steel & Aluminum	n/m
CRSCarpenter Technology	21.2×
Peer median	16.0×

Where Nucor ranks

What the forward PE tells you

Price divided by what analysts expect the company to earn over the next twelve months. It answers "what am I paying for next year" instead of last year.

Estimates are opinions. When forward PE is far below trailing PE, analysts expect a big jump in earnings. If that jump slips, the stock was not as cheap as it looked.

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Valuation data, not investment advice. Prices as of Oct 23, 2026. Reported figures come from the company's filings with the SEC.