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Nerds of Steel earnings spreadsheet updated with Nucor results

January 28, 2016

Nucor announced Q4 and full year 2015 financial results this morning. EBITDA/ton was $105 on steel shipments, down from $115 in Q3. You can see the numbers for Nucor and the other companies tracked by Nerds of Steel in the spreadsheet behind the graph that appears below.

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Nerds of Steel earnings spreadsheet updated with US Steel results

January 27, 2016

US Steel announced Q4 and full year 2015 results yesterday after the market closed. The company’s Q4 EBITDA per ton fell to a negative ($38) per ton, down from a positive $20 per ton in Q3. Under current market conditions, US Steel expects to be near break even on an EBITDA basis in 2016.

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China crude steel production 64.4Mt in December and 803.8Mt in 2015

January 27, 2016

Worldsteel reported crude steel production in China at 64.4 million metric tonnes in December, 5.2% lower than in December 2014. Taking into account Worldsteel year-end revisions, full-year output in 2015 was 2.3% lower in 2015 than it was in 2014. In addition, Chinese net finished steel exports (exports minus imports) in December were 9.5 million […]

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Q4 2015 earnings spreadsheet

January 26, 2016

Several mills are releasing Q4 and full year 2015 earnings this week. Starting things off are Steel Dynamics and AK Steel. AK’s EBITDA per ton jumped from $75 in Q3 to $108 in Q4, while Steel Dynamic’s EBITDA fell to $62 from $94. Later this week we’ll get results from US Steel, Nucor and TimkenSteel. […]

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2015 world crude steel production 1.62Bn tonnes

January 26, 2016

Worldsteel published December and full-year 2015 global crude steel production on January 25th. World crude steel production was 126.7 million metric tonnes in December, 5.7% lower than in December 2014. Full-year 2015 production was 1,623 million tonnes, 2.8% lower than in 2014. Chinese crude production accounted for 50% of full-year 2015 world output and showed […]

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US long products imports rise 27% in December

January 20, 2016

Based on reported import licenses, US long products imports increased 27% from 335,000 short tons in November to 424,000 tons in December. Long products imports in December 2014 were 353,000 tons and in December 2013 they were 280,000 tons. The increase in longs imports between November and December 2015 was driven mainly by higher wire […]

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