There's no question that Nucor is expanding its business. But frankly, the steel giant is always expanding its business -- in both good markets and bad ones. The real issue is how it is expanding and why. The process today, as it has been historically, is deliberate and strategically motivated, and the end goal is always to hit at least one of several key targets: lower operating costs, enhance or create a leading market position, move products up the value chain, and expand into new market niches. As long as Nucor keeps hitting those targets, it will support the company's long-term position as an industry leader and reward investors along the way: The company expects to post record earnings in 2018.
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A number of hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the stock. Allianz Asset Management GmbH increased its holdings in Ternium by 0.6% during the third quarter. Allianz Asset Management GmbH now owns 356,383 shares of the basic materials company’s stock valued at $10,794,000 after buying an additional 1,973 shares during the period. BlackRock Inc. grew its holdings in Ternium by 75.9% in the third quarter. BlackRock Inc. now owns 10,768 shares of the basic materials company’s stock worth $326,000 after purchasing an additional 4,647 shares during the last quarter. Advisors Asset Management Inc. grew its holdings in Ternium by 15.9% in the second quarter. Advisors Asset Management Inc. now owns 42,599 shares of the basic materials company’s stock worth $1,483,000 after purchasing an additional 5,830 shares during the last quarter. BB&T Securities LLC purchased a new position in Ternium in the second quarter worth $214,000. Finally, Nordea Investment Management AB purchased a new position in Ternium in the third quarter worth $242,000. 18.57% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.
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Ternium SA, through its subsidiaries, manufactures and processes various steel products in Mexico, Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay, Brazil, the United States, Colombia, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. It operates in two segments, Steel and Mining. The Steel segment offers steel products, including slabs, billets and round bars, hot-rolled coils and sheets, bars and stirrups, wire rods, cold-rolled coils and sheets, tin plates, hot dipped galvanized and electrogalvanized sheets and pre-painted sheets, steel pipes and tubular products, beams, and roll formed products, as well as other products, such as pig iron.
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