Compare · GGB vs NUE
GGB vs NUE
Side-by-side comparison of Gerdau S.A. (GGB) and Nucor Corporation (NUE): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.
Summary
- Both GGB and NUE operate in Steel/Iron Ore (Industrials), so they compete in similar markets.
- NUE is the larger of the two at $57.94B, about 6.4x GGB ($9.07B).
- NUE has been more active in the news (29 items in the past 4 weeks vs 7 for GGB).
- NUE has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 10 for GGB).
- Company
- Gerdau S.A.
- Nucor Corporation
- Price
- $4.58-2.55%
- $254.43-3.00%
- Market cap
- $9.07B
- $57.94B
- 1M return
- -7.00%
- -
- 1Y return
- +43.96%
- -
- Industry
- Steel/Iron Ore
- Steel/Iron Ore
- Exchange
- NYSE
- NYSE
- IPO
- News (4w)
- 7
- 29
- Recent ratings
- 10
- 25
Gerdau S.A.
Gerdau S.A. provides steel products and services. It operates through four segments: Brazil Business, North America Business, South America Business, and Special Steel Business. The company offers semi-finished products, including billets, blooms, and slabs; common long rolled products, such as rebars, wire rods, merchant bars, light shapes, and profiles to the construction and manufacturing industries; finished industrial products, including commercial rolled-steel bars, and light profiles and wires; agricultural products that include stakes and smooth wire products; and drawn products comprises barbed and barbless fence wires, galvanized wires, fences, concrete reinforcing wire meshes, nails, and clamps. It also produces special steel products used in auto parts, light and heavy vehicles, and agricultural machinery, as well as the oil and gas, wind energy, machinery and equipment, mining and rail, and other markets. In addition, the company offers flat products, including hot rolled coils and heavy plates; and resells flat steel products, as well as mines and produces iron ore. It sells its products through independent distributors, direct sales from the mills, and its retail network. The company was founded in 1901 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Gerdau S.A. is a subsidiary of Metalúrgica Gerdau S.A.
Nucor Corporation
Nucor Corporation manufactures and sells steel and steel products. It operates through three segments: Steel Mills, Steel Products, and Raw Materials. The Steel Mills segment produces hot-rolled, cold-rolled, and galvanized sheet steel products; plate steel products; wide-flange beams, beam blanks, and H-piling and sheet piling products; bar steel products, such as blooms, billets, concrete reinforcing and merchant bars, and special bar quality products. It also engages in the steel trading and rebar distribution businesses. This segment sells its products to steel service centers, fabricators, and manufacturers in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The Steel Products segment offers hollow structural section steel tubing products, electrical conduits, steel joists and joist girders, steel decks, fabricated concrete reinforcing steel products, cold finished steel products, steel fasteners, metal building systems, steel grating and expanded metal products, and wire and wire mesh products primarily for use in nonresidential construction applications. This segment also engages in the piling distribution business. The Raw Materials segment produces direct reduced iron (DRI); brokers ferrous and nonferrous metals, pig iron, hot briquetted iron, and DRI; supplies ferro-alloys; and processes ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal, as well as engages in the natural gas drilling operations. This segment sells its ferrous scrap to electric arc furnace steel mills and foundries for manufacturing process; and nonferrous scrap metal to aluminum can producers, secondary aluminum smelters, steel mills and other processors, and consumers of various nonferrous metals. The company offers its products through its in-house sales forces; and internal distribution and trading companies. The company was incorporated in 1958 and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Latest GGB
- Senior Management Wang Chia Yuan sold $138,898 worth of Preferred shares (30,935 units at $4.49), closing all direct ownership in the company (SEC Form 4)
- Amendment: New insider Wang Chia Yuan claimed ownership of 227,517 units of Preferred shares (SEC Form 3)
- Executive Vice President Metz Mauricio sold $33,950 worth of Preferred shares (7,000 units at $4.85), decreasing direct ownership by 24% to 22,536 units (SEC Form 4)
- Executive Vice President Metz Mauricio sold $23,500 worth of Preferred shares (5,000 units at $4.70), decreasing direct ownership by 14% to 29,536 units (SEC Form 4)
- SEC Form SD filed by Gerdau S.A.
- VP, CFO and IR Officer Japur Rafael Dorneles sold $23,750 worth of Preferred shares (5,000 units at $4.75), decreasing direct ownership by 5% to 96,967 units (SEC Form 4)
- Officer Peres Cesar Obino Da Rosa sold $36,800 worth of Preferred shares (8,000 units at $4.60), decreasing direct ownership by 100% to 8 units (SEC Form 4)
- Executive Vice President Metz Mauricio sold $24,250 worth of Preferred shares (5,000 units at $4.85), decreasing direct ownership by 13% to 34,536 units (SEC Form 4)
- CEO and Board Member Da Cunha Gustavo Werneck was granted 432,774 units of Preferred shares and sold $2,107,999 worth of Preferred shares (432,854 units at $4.87), closing all direct ownership in the company (SEC Form 4)
- Executive Vice President Metz Mauricio sold $9,380 worth of Preferred shares (2,000 units at $4.69), decreasing direct ownership by 5% to 39,536 units (SEC Form 4)
Latest NUE
- Executive Vice President Hollatz John J exercised 10,560 shares at a strike of $131.82 and sold $2,729,291 worth of shares (10,560 units at $258.46) (SEC Form 4)
- Executive Vice President Query Kenneth Rex sold $3,400,843 worth of shares (13,529 units at $251.37), decreasing direct ownership by 17% to 64,685 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director West Nadja was granted 755 shares, increasing direct ownership by 8% to 10,703 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Lamach Michael W was granted 755 shares, increasing direct ownership by 20% to 4,555 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Koellner Laurette T was granted 755 shares, increasing direct ownership by 4% to 21,193 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Kearney Christopher J was granted 755 shares, increasing direct ownership by 2% to 46,753 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Gangestad Nicholas C was granted 755 shares, increasing direct ownership by 21% to 4,315 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Dempsey Patrick was granted 755 shares, increasing direct ownership by 4% to 18,325 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Clayton Norma was granted 755 shares, increasing direct ownership by 15% to 5,826 units (SEC Form 4)
- Chair and CEO Topalian Leon J was granted 12,028 shares and covered exercise/tax liability with 17,715 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 4% to 138,154 units (SEC Form 4)