Growth Metrics

Nucor (NUE) Return on Assets (2016 - 2025)

Nucor (NUE) has disclosed Return on Assets for 17 consecutive years, with 0.01% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly Return on Assets fell 8.0% to 0.01% in Q4 2025 from the year-ago period, while the trailing twelve-month figure was 0.01% through Dec 2025, down 8.0% year-over-year, with the annual reading at 0.01% for FY2025, 8.0% down from the prior year.
  • Return on Assets hit 0.01% in Q4 2025 for Nucor, down from 0.05% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Assets ranged from a high of 0.31% in Q3 2022 to a low of 0.14% in Q3 2023.
  • Historically, Return on Assets has averaged 0.08% across 5 years, with a median of 0.07% in 2024.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Assets: grew 30bps in 2021 and later tumbled -44bps in 2023.
  • Year by year, Return on Assets stood at 0.28% in 2021, then plummeted by -124bps to 0.07% in 2022, then surged by 306bps to 0.14% in 2023, then plummeted by -54bps to 0.06% in 2024, then tumbled by -121bps to 0.01% in 2025.
  • Business Quant data shows Return on Assets for NUE at 0.01% in Q4 2025, 0.05% in Q4 2025, and 0.04% in Q3 2025.