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Company details
Market cap
$37B
P/E ratio
26×
Div yield
0.9%
Dividend
$2.12/yr
Profit margin
9%
Rev. growth
+9%
Revenue
$19B
Free cash flow
$1.2B
In plain English
Steel Dynamics is one of America's largest and lowest-cost steelmakers, built on electric-arc-furnace (EAF) mini-mills that melt recycled scrap rather than iron ore. It is vertically integrated — its own OmniSource recycling arm feeds the mills, and it fabricates joists and decking — and is now pushing into low-carbon aluminium with a new $2.7B flat-rolled mill in Columbus, Mississippi.
In simple terms
From scrap to skyscraper
STLD doesn't dig ore out of the ground — its OmniSource arm collects recycled scrap, which electric-arc furnaces melt into new steel. That becomes sheet for cars, beams and joists for buildings, and now aluminium for cans, closing a circular loop.
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