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Nucor Corporation: Company issues downward guidance for Q4

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Nucor Corporation (NYSE:NUE). Last Market Price: 35.3, Change: +0.41, % Change: (1.18%). Shares trade in the range of 34.68 – 35.94 dollars. It has a market capitalization of 11.17B dollars, making it a Large Cap Stock and has 316.50M outstanding shares. The company has a beta of 1.09, indicating, the stock to be more volatile than the market. As per the most recent quarterly report, the net income per share (EPS) is 1.48; P/E of 23.85. It operates in Basic Materials sector and belongs to Iron and Steel industry. Percentage shares held by institutional investors is 77%. The company has a 52 week high of $ 49.24 and a 52 week low of $ 29.82. Average volumes of shares traded daily are 4,160,000. Volume traded in the last session was at 1,030,000, 0.25 times the average volume.

  • Reports Q3 (Sep)
    • EPS of $0.57 better than the estimates
    • Revenues rose 26.9% year on year to $5.25 billion.
  • Company issues guidance for Q4, sees EPS of lower than Q3′s $0.57

For Q3 (Jul ’11), It had a Net profit margin of 6.30%, an Operating margin of 9.34%. Other Key stats and ratios are : Return on average assets of 8.87%, Return on average equity of 16.28%. The organization has an employee strength of 20,500

Consensus Recommendation is a Outperform.


Estimate for sales for the Quarter Ending Dec-11 show a mean of 4,763.85 million dollars, an estimate high of 5,125.08 million dollars and an estimate low of 4,559.72 million dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 4,363.55 million dollars.

Estimate for sales for the Quarter Ending Mar-12 show a mean of 5,169.18 million dollars, an estimate high of 5,474.58 million dollars and an estimate low of 4,899.30 million dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 4,460.70 million dollars.

Estimate for EPS for the Quarter Ending Dec-11 show a mean of 0.51 dollars, an estimate high of 0.88 dollars and an estimate low of 0.30 dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 0.93 dollars.

Estimate for EPS for the Quarter Ending Mar-12 show a mean of 0.76 dollars, an estimate high of 0.91 dollars and an estimate low of 0.61 dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 0.74 dollars.

Sales for Quarter Ending Jun-11 was estimated at 5,182.93 million dollars, however the actual sales figure stood at 5,107.81 million dollars, 75.12 million dollars less than estimates.

Sales for Quarter Ending Mar-11 was estimated at 4,438.83 million dollars, however the actual sales figure stood at 4,833.93 million dollars, 395.1 million dollars more than estimates.

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Ed Liston is a senior contributing editor at TheStockMarketWatch.com. An active market watcher and investor, Ed guides an independent team of experienced analysts and writes for multiple stock trader publications. He is widely quoted in various financial publications on the Internet. When Ed is not writing about stocks, investing in stocks, talking about stocks, or otherwise doing something stock related, he likes to go sailing and fishing in his yacht.


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Ed Liston is a senior contributing editor at TheStockMarketWatch.com. An active market watcher and investor, Ed guides an independent team of experienced analysts and writes for multiple stock trader publications. He is widely quoted in various financial publications on the Internet. When Ed is not writing about stocks, investing in stocks, talking about stocks, or otherwise doing something stock related, he likes to go sailing and fishing.

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