Nucorreason 03 of 4it makes it for less than anyone else canderived 2026-09-08accession 0001193125-26-345891
Nucor is building through the cycle with named capacity additions (West Virginia sheet mill, NTS expansion, South Carolina galvanizing) while start-up costs are declining; as these facilities ramp to target utilization, incremental volume should convert to earnings without proportionate new drag.
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It held on this filing. No finding was written because nothing in it bore on the reason — the sentences it was read against are below.
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the claims it rests on
“Capital expenditures for 2026 are estimated to be approximately $2.50 billion”
“Pre-operating and start-up costs of new facilities decreased to approximately $228 million in the first six months of 2026 from approximately $306 million in the first six months of 2025”
“The projects that we anticipate will have the largest capital expenditures in 2026 are the sheet mill under construction in West Virginia, the construction of two manufacturing locations to expand NTS, and the galvanizing line at our sheet mill in South Carolina”
what it was checked against
utilization rate improvement data
“The average utilization rates of all operating facilities in the steel mills, steel products and raw materials segments were approximately 88%, 65% and 76%, respectively, in the first six months of 2026, compared with approximately 82%,61% and 73%, respectively, in the first six months of 2025.”