Steel Dynamics (NASDAQ:STLD) Issues Q4 2025 Earnings Guidance

Steel Dynamics (NASDAQ:STLD) updated its fourth quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Wednesday. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 1.650-1.690 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of 2.270. The company issued revenue guidance of -.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

STLD has been the subject of a number of recent research reports. The Goldman Sachs Group set a $172.00 target price on Steel Dynamics and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research note on Friday, October 31st. BMO Capital Markets boosted their price objective on Steel Dynamics from $155.00 to $167.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Wednesday, October 22nd. Jefferies Financial Group increased their price objective on Steel Dynamics from $180.00 to $190.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday, December 10th. KeyCorp lifted their target price on shares of Steel Dynamics from $152.00 to $165.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research note on Monday, October 27th. Finally, Weiss Ratings reissued a “hold (c+)” rating on shares of Steel Dynamics in a research report on Monday. Seven equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and five have issued a Hold rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $176.89.

Steel Dynamics Stock Performance

Steel Dynamics stock opened at $172.74 on Thursday. Steel Dynamics has a fifty-two week low of $103.17 and a fifty-two week high of $174.31. The stock’s 50 day simple moving average is $158.07 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $141.18. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.43, a quick ratio of 1.47 and a current ratio of 3.11. The stock has a market cap of $25.23 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 22.88, a PEG ratio of 1.13 and a beta of 1.47.

Steel Dynamics (NASDAQ:STLD) last released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, October 21st. The basic materials company reported $2.74 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $2.63 by $0.11. The company had revenue of $4.83 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $4.74 billion. Steel Dynamics had a return on equity of 12.89% and a net margin of 6.39%.The firm’s revenue was up 11.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $2.05 earnings per share. As a group, analysts expect that Steel Dynamics will post 9.01 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Steel Dynamics Announces Dividend

The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, January 9th. Investors of record on Wednesday, December 31st will be paid a $0.50 dividend. This represents a $2.00 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.2%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, December 31st. Steel Dynamics’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 26.49%.

Insider Buying and Selling

In related news, SVP Miguel Alvarez sold 8,251 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, October 29th. The shares were sold at an average price of $162.79, for a total transaction of $1,343,180.29. Following the sale, the senior vice president owned 117,068 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $19,057,499.72. The trade was a 6.58% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available at this link. 6.30% of the stock is owned by insiders.

Institutional Trading of Steel Dynamics

Hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in the stock. Prelude Capital Management LLC increased its stake in Steel Dynamics by 32.1% during the 3rd quarter. Prelude Capital Management LLC now owns 2,925 shares of the basic materials company’s stock valued at $408,000 after purchasing an additional 711 shares in the last quarter. Laird Norton Wetherby Wealth Management LLC lifted its stake in shares of Steel Dynamics by 2.4% in the third quarter. Laird Norton Wetherby Wealth Management LLC now owns 3,468 shares of the basic materials company’s stock worth $484,000 after buying an additional 80 shares in the last quarter. Chesapeake Capital Corp IL purchased a new stake in shares of Steel Dynamics during the third quarter valued at approximately $388,000. Boothbay Fund Management LLC bought a new stake in shares of Steel Dynamics during the second quarter valued at approximately $462,000. Finally, MGB Wealth Management LLC purchased a new position in Steel Dynamics in the 2nd quarter worth approximately $251,000. 82.41% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

Steel Dynamics Company Profile

Steel Dynamics, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a steel producer and metal recycler in the United States. The Steel Operations segment offers hot rolled, cold rolled, and coated steel products; parallel flange beams and channel sections, flat bars, large unequal leg angles, and reinforcing steel bars, as well as standard strength carbon, intermediate alloy hardness, and premium grade rail products; engineered special-bar-quality products, merchant-bar-quality products, and other engineered round steel bars; channels, angles, flats, merchant rounds, and reinforcing steel bars; and specialty shapes and light structural steel products.