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Nucor (NUE) Debt Ratio (2016 - 2025)

Nucor's Debt Ratio history spans 17 years, with the latest figure at 0.2 for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Debt Ratio rose 1.08% year-over-year to 0.2; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.2, up 1.08%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.2, 1.08% up from the prior year.
  • Debt Ratio for Q4 2025 was 0.2 at Nucor, up from 0.19 in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Debt Ratio topped out at 0.25 in Q2 2021 and bottomed at 0.17 in Q3 2024.
  • The 5-year median for Debt Ratio is 0.2 (2021), against an average of 0.21.
  • The largest annual shift saw Debt Ratio dropped 27.64% in 2021 before it rose 12.47% in 2025.
  • A 5-year view of Debt Ratio shows it stood at 0.22 in 2021, then dropped by 5.02% to 0.21 in 2022, then fell by 7.26% to 0.19 in 2023, then increased by 4.16% to 0.2 in 2024, then rose by 1.08% to 0.2 in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for NUE's Debt Ratio are 0.2 (Q4 2025), 0.19 (Q4 2025), and 0.2 (Q3 2025).