UBS downgrades Nucor (NUE) to a Hold

In a report released today, Julian Radlinger from UBS downgraded Nucor to a Hold, with a price target of p780.00.

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Radlinger covers the Basic Materials sector, focusing on stocks such as Heidelberg Materials, Holcim, and Nucor. According to TipRanks, Radlinger has an average return of 6.3% and a 69.23% success rate on recommended stocks.

In addition to UBS, Nucor also received a Hold from TipRanks – DeepSeek’s DeepSeek Steel in a report issued on January 28. However, on the same day, TipRanks – OpenAI upgraded Nucor (NYSE: NUE) to a Buy.

Based on Nucor’s latest earnings release for the quarter ending December 31, the company reported a quarterly revenue of $7.69 billion and a net profit of $378 million. In comparison, last year the company earned a revenue of $7.08 billion and had a net profit of $287.03 million

Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 75 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders selling their shares of NUE in relation to earlier this year. Most recently, in December 2025, Thomas J. Batterbee, the EVP of NUE sold 2,000.00 shares for a total of $330,540.00.