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What NUCOR CORP's SEC filings said

10-Q for 2026Q4, filed 10 Nov 2026. Each line is something a filing stated, ranked by score and linked to its source.

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1. Capital Expenditure Program71 · importance in its document · 10-Q · 2026Q4
   Cash used in investing activities in the first nine months of 2026 was $1.54 billion, down $974 million from the comparable 2025 period. Capital expenditures were $1.86 billion, a $759 million decrease, primarily because the West Virginia…
2. Capital Expenditure Outlook71 · importance in its document · 10-Q · 2026Q4
   Nucor estimates 2026 capital expenditures of approximately $2.50 billion, compared with $3.42 billion in 2025. The largest anticipated 2026 projects are the sheet mill under construction in West Virginia, two manufacturing locations to…
3. Gross Margin Drivers69 · importance in its document · 10-Q · 2026Q4
   Nucor’s third-quarter 2026 gross margin increased to $2.33 billion, or 21% of sales, from $1.19 billion, or 14%, in the third quarter of 2025. Higher steel mills metal margins were the largest driver: average scrap and scrap-substitute…
4. Guidance / Outlook68 · importance in its document · 8-K exhibit · 26 Oct 2026
   Nucor expects fourth-quarter 2026 earnings to be generally in line with or modestly higher than third-quarter 2026. The Steel mills segment is expected to have stable earnings, as higher realized pricing is offset by seasonally lower…
5. Revenue Performance and Mix64 · importance in its document · 10-Q · 2026Q4
   Third-quarter 2026 net sales increased 32% year over year to $11.249 billion, as average sales price per ton rose 19% to $1,493 and outside shipments increased 11% to 7.533 million tons. For the first nine months of 2026, net sales…

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Latest report: 10-Q · 2026Q4 filed 10 Nov 2026

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• Capital Expenditure ProgramImportance 71
  Cash used in investing activities in the first nine months of 2026 was $1.54 billion, down $974 million from the comparable 2025 period. Capital expenditures were $1.86 billion, a $759 million decrease, primarily…
• Capital Expenditure OutlookImportance 71
  Nucor estimates 2026 capital expenditures of approximately $2.50 billion, compared with $3.42 billion in 2025. The largest anticipated 2026 projects are the sheet mill under construction in West Virginia, two…
• Gross Margin DriversImportance 69
  Nucor’s third-quarter 2026 gross margin increased to $2.33 billion, or 21% of sales, from $1.19 billion, or 14%, in the third quarter of 2025. Higher steel mills metal margins were the largest driver: average scrap and…
• Revenue Performance and MixImportance 64
  Third-quarter 2026 net sales increased 32% year over year to $11.249 billion, as average sales price per ton rose 19% to $1,493 and outside shipments increased 11% to 7.533 million tons. For the first nine months of…
• Liquidity and Capital PositionImportance 63
  At October 3, 2026, cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments totaled $3.64 billion, up from $2.70 billion at December 31, 2025; $1.01 billion of cash and cash equivalents was held by majority-owned joint…
• Share Repurchase ProgramImportance 57 · +1 more on this subject
  Cash used in financing activities in the first nine months of 2026 was $1.77 billion, compared with $1.27 billion in the first nine months of 2025. Stock repurchases were a primary use of cash, totaling $976 million in…
• Guidance / OutlookImportance 40
  Nucor expected fourth-quarter 2026 earnings to be generally in line with or modestly above third-quarter results. Steel mills earnings were expected to remain stable as higher realized pricing was offset by seasonally…
• Market Demand TrendsImportance 38
  Nucor reported strong demand across key end-use markets for both its steel mills and steel products segments in the third quarter of 2026. Steel mills shipments reached a record level, with the largest increases in…
• Operating Expense TrendsImportance 26
  Profit-sharing and other incentive compensation costs increased $120 million in the third quarter of 2026 and $294 million in the first nine months compared with the respective 2025 periods. Nucor attributed the…
• Manufacturing and CapacityImportance 21
  Average utilization in the first nine months of 2026 was approximately 89% at operating steel mills, 66% in steel products and 76% in raw materials, compared with 83%, 62% and 72%, respectively, in the year-earlier…
• Revolving Credit FacilityImportance 12
  Nucor’s revolving credit facility has borrowing capacity of $2.25 billion and matures on March 11, 2030, following its 2025 amendment. The facility’s financial covenant limits funded debt to total capital to 60%. At…
• Competition and Pricing PressureImportance 10
  Nucor said federal trade policies, including anti-dumping and countervailing duty laws and Section 232 national security tariffs, continued to reduce the volume of unfairly traded steel imports into the United States.…

8-K filings last 12 months

• Results, no stated guidance change26 Oct 2026 · 8-K Item 2.02 · Routine · rule score 10
  Read from the attached exhibit: Guidance / Outlook · Free Cash Flow and Capex · Revenue Performance and Mix
• Results (release not read)27 Jul 2026 · 8-K Item 2.02 · Routine · rule score 20
• Results (release not read)27 Apr 2026 · 8-K Item 2.02 · Routine · rule score 20
• Management change (filing not read)3 Mar 2026 · 8-K Item 5.02 · Routine · rule score 20
• Management change (filing not read)20 Feb 2026 · 8-K Item 5.02 · Routine · rule score 20
• Results (release not read)26 Jan 2026 · 8-K Item 2.02 · Routine · rule score 20
• Management change (filing not read)4 Dec 2025 · 8-K Item 5.02 · Routine · rule score 20

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