Growth Metrics

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

Nucor (NUE) has disclosed Return on Sales for 17 consecutive years, with 0.27% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly Return on Sales fell 30.0% to 0.27% in Q4 2025 from the year-ago period, while the trailing twelve-month figure was 0.01% through Dec 2025, down 9.0% year-over-year, with the annual reading at 0.01% for FY2025, 9.0% down from the prior year.
  • Return on Sales hit 0.27% in Q4 2025 for Nucor, down from 0.08% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Sales ranged from a high of 0.23% in Q3 2022 to a low of 1.02% in Q4 2022.
  • Historically, Return on Sales has averaged 0.05% across 5 years, with a median of 0.13% in 2024.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Sales: tumbled -124bps in 2022 and later skyrocketed 113bps in 2023.
  • Year by year, Return on Sales stood at 0.21% in 2021, then tumbled by -576bps to 1.02% in 2022, then surged by 110bps to 0.1% in 2023, then tumbled by -71bps to 0.03% in 2024, then tumbled by -1012bps to 0.27% in 2025.
  • Business Quant data shows Return on Sales for NUE at 0.27% in Q4 2025, 0.08% in Q4 2025, and 0.08% in Q3 2025.