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MA vs NUE: Dividend Comparison 2026

MA yields 0.64% · NUE yields 1.34%● Live data

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After 10 years · $10,000 invested · DRIP enabled
🏆 MA wins by $460.2K in total portfolio value· pulled ahead in Year 3
10 years
MA
MA
● Live price
0.64%
Share price
$494.00
Annual div
$3.15
5Y div CAGR
91.8%
Payout ratio
50%
After 10 yrs · $10,000 · DRIP
Portfolio value
$497.2K
Annual income
$341,049.48
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NUE
NUE
● Live price
1.34%
Share price
$164.75
Annual div
$2.21
5Y div CAGR
36.9%
Payout ratio
50%
After 10 yrs · $10,000 · DRIP
Portfolio value
$37.0K
Annual income
$5,036.01
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Portfolio growth — MA vs NUE

📍 MA pulled ahead of the other in Year 3

Annual dividend income

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Recession Test — Did They Cut Dividends?

How each stock treated shareholders during the 3 biggest crises of the last 20 years

Crisis PeriodMANUE
2008–2009
GFC
— No data— No data
2020 Q1–Q2
COVID
— No data— No data
2022 Q4
Rate Hike
— No data— No data
Based on dividend payment history. "Increased" = dividend grew during crisis. "Maintained" = held within 3%. "Cut" = reduced by more than 3%.
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Dividend Calendar Overlap

Combined, MA + NUE cover 0 of 12 monthsgood coverage

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
MA pays
NUE pays
Both pay
Neither
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Tax Bracket Optimizer

Which stock is actually better after tax? Adjust your rate to find out.

MA
Annual income on $10K today (after 15% tax)
$54.20/yr
After 10yr DRIP, annual income (after tax)
$289,892.06/yr
NUE
Annual income on $10K today (after 15% tax)
$114.02/yr
After 10yr DRIP, annual income (after tax)
$4,280.61/yr
At 15% tax rate, MA beats the other by $285,611.45/year in after-tax income after 10 years on $10,000
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Lazy Portfolio Split Optimizer

What's the optimal mix of MA + NUE for your $10,000?

MA: 50%NUE: 50%
100% NUE50/50100% MA
Portfolio after 10yr
$267.1K
Annual income
$173,042.75/yr
Blended yield
64.79%
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Analyst Conviction Gap

Where Wall Street is most bullish on MA right now

MA
Analyst Ratings
1
Strong
51
Buy
12
Hold
Consensus: Buy
Price Target
$667.33
+35.1% upside vs current
Range: $610.00 — $739.00
Altman Z
9.7
Piotroski
8/9
NUE
Analyst Ratings
18
Buy
11
Hold
3
Sell
Consensus: Buy
Price Target
$179.67
+9.1% upside vs current
Range: $176.00 — $183.00
Altman Z
4.4
Piotroski
8/9
Analyst ratings via FMP. Altman Z-Score: >3.0 safe, 1.81–3.0 grey zone, <1.81 distress. Piotroski: 7–9 strong, 0–3 weak.
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Copy Congress — What Are Politicians Buying?

Senate & House STOCK Act disclosures (last 90 days)

MA buys
0
NUE buys
0
No recent congressional trades found for MA or NUE in the last 90 days.
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MetricMANUE
Forward yield0.64%1.34%
Annual dividend / share$3.15$2.21
Payout ratio50%50%
1-year div growth0%0%
5-year div CAGR91.8%36.9%
Portfolio after 10y$497.2K$37.0K
Annual income after 10y$341,049.48$5,036.01
Total dividends collected$463.2K$15.0K
Payment frequencyquarterlyquarterly
SectorFinancialsMaterials
Analyst consensusBuyBuy
Analyst price target$667.33$179.67

Year-by-year: MA vs NUE ($10,000, DRIP)

YearMA PortfolioMA Income/yrNUE PortfolioNUE Income/yrGap
1$10,822$122.30$10,884$183.64$62.00NUE
2$11,817$237.26$11,901$255.72$84.00NUE
3← crossover$13,109$464.38$13,092$357.77+$17.00MA
4$14,950$923.39$14,512$503.54+$438.00MA
5$17,884$1,887.66$16,242$714.13+$1.6KMA
6$23,183$4,047.78$18,402$1,022.61+$4.8KMA
7$34,212$9,405.89$21,172$1,482.33+$13.0KMA
8$61,488$24,880.97$24,836$2,182.08+$36.7KMA
9$145,949$80,157.01$29,850$3,275.00+$116.1KMA
10$497,215$341,049.48$36,975$5,036.01+$460.2KMA

MA vs NUE: Complete Analysis 2026

MAFinancials

Mastercard Incorporated, a technology company, provides transaction processing and other payment-related products and services in the United States and internationally. It facilitates the processing of payment transactions, including authorization, clearing, and settlement, as well as delivers other payment-related products and services. The company offers integrated products and value-added services for account holders, merchants, financial institutions, businesses, governments, and other organizations, such as programs that enable issuers to provide consumers with credits to defer payments; prepaid programs and management services; commercial credit and debit payment products and solutions; and payment products and solutions that allow its customers to access funds in deposit and other accounts. It also provides value-added products and services comprising cyber and intelligence solutions for parties to transact, as well as proprietary insights, drawing on principled use of consumer, and merchant data services. In addition, the company offers analytics, test and learn, consulting, managed services, loyalty, processing, and payment gateway solutions for e-commerce merchants. Further, it provides open banking and digital identity platforms services. The company offers payment solutions and services under the MasterCard, Maestro, and Cirrus. Mastercard Incorporated was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in Purchase, New York.

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NUEMaterials

Nucor Corporation manufactures and sells steel and steel products. The company's Steel Mills segment produces hot-rolled, cold-rolled, and galvanized sheet steel products; plate steel products; wide-flange beams, beam blanks, and H-piling and sheet piling products; and bar steel products, such as blooms, billets, concrete reinforcing and merchant bars, and special bar quality products. It also engages in the steel trading and rebar distribution businesses. This segment sells its products to steel service centers, fabricators, and manufacturers in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Its Steel Products segment offers hollow structural section steel tubing products, electrical conduits, steel racking, steel joists and joist girders, steel decks, fabricated concrete reinforcing steel products, cold finished steel products, steel fasteners, metal building systems, insulated metal panels, steel grating and expanded metal products, and wire and wire mesh products primarily for use in nonresidential construction applications. This segment also engages in the piling distribution business. The company's Raw Materials segment produces direct reduced iron (DRI); brokers ferrous and nonferrous metals, pig iron, hot briquetted iron, and DRI; supplies ferro-alloys; and processes ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal, as well as engages in the natural gas drilling operations. This segment sells its ferrous scrap to electric arc furnace steel mills and foundries for manufacturing process; and nonferrous scrap metal to aluminum can producers, secondary aluminum smelters, steel mills and other processors, and consumers of various nonferrous metals. It serves agriculture, automotive, construction, energy and transmission, oil and gas, heavy equipment, infrastructure, and transportation industries through its in-house sales force; and internal distribution and trading companies. Nucor Corporation was incorporated in 1958 and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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