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

Nucor's Return on Sales history spans 17 years, with the latest figure at 0.26% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Sales fell 32.0% year-over-year to 0.26%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.01%, down 10.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.0%, 7.0% down from the prior year.
  • Return on Sales for Q4 2025 was 0.26% at Nucor, down from 0.1% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Sales topped out at 0.3% in Q3 2022 and bottomed at 0.26% in Q4 2025.
  • The 5-year median for Return on Sales is 0.15% (2023), against an average of 0.13%.
  • The largest annual shift saw Return on Sales rose 17bps in 2021 before it crashed -32bps in 2025.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Sales shows it stood at 0.23% in 2021, then fell by -17bps to 0.19% in 2022, then fell by -27bps to 0.14% in 2023, then tumbled by -61bps to 0.05% in 2024, then crashed by -584bps to 0.26% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for NUE's Return on Sales are 0.26% (Q4 2025), 0.1% (Q4 2025), and 0.08% (Q3 2025).