Steel Dynamics (NASDAQ:STLD – Get Free Report) posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday. The basic materials company reported $3.67 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $3.54 by $0.13, Briefing.com reports. The firm had revenue of $4.69 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $4.74 billion. Steel Dynamics had a net margin of 12.89% and a return on equity of 27.62%. The business’s quarterly revenue was down 4.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $4.01 EPS.
Steel Dynamics Price Performance
Shares of NASDAQ:STLD opened at $133.03 on Friday. The stock has a market cap of $21.01 billion, a PE ratio of 9.14 and a beta of 1.42. The company’s fifty day moving average is $137.00 and its 200 day moving average is $122.03. Steel Dynamics has a 52 week low of $90.55 and a 52 week high of $151.34. The company has a quick ratio of 1.67, a current ratio of 2.87 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.29.
Steel Dynamics Increases Dividend
The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Sunday, April 14th. Investors of record on Sunday, March 31st were given a $0.46 dividend. This represents a $1.84 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.38%. The ex-dividend date was Wednesday, March 27th. This is a boost from Steel Dynamics’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.43. Steel Dynamics’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 12.64%.
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About Steel Dynamics
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.
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