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MS vs NUE: Dividend Comparison 2026

MS yields 2.48% · NUE yields 1.34%● Live data

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After 10 years · $10,000 invested · DRIP enabled
🏆 MS wins by $167.40M in total portfolio value
10 years
MS
MS
● Live price
2.48%
Share price
$158.32
Annual div
$3.93
5Y div CAGR
100%
Payout ratio
50%
After 10 yrs · $10,000 · DRIP
Portfolio value
$167.43M
Annual income
$155,391,640.16
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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 — MS vs NUE

📍 MS pulled ahead of the other in Year 1

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 PeriodMSNUE
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, MS + NUE cover 0 of 12 monthsgood coverage

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
MS 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.

MS
Annual income on $10K today (after 15% tax)
$210.73/yr
After 10yr DRIP, annual income (after tax)
$132,082,894.14/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, MS beats the other by $132,078,613.53/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 MS + NUE for your $10,000?

MS: 50%NUE: 50%
100% NUE50/50100% MS
Portfolio after 10yr
$83.73M
Annual income
$77,698,338.09/yr
Blended yield
92.79%
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Analyst Conviction Gap

Where Wall Street is most bullish on MS right now

MS
Analyst Ratings
27
Buy
24
Hold
Consensus: Buy
Price Target
$196.00
+23.8% upside vs current
Range: $165.00 — $220.00
Altman Z
0.4
Piotroski
6/9
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)

MS buys
0
NUE buys
0
No recent congressional trades found for MS or NUE in the last 90 days.
STOCK Act mandates disclosure within 45 days of transaction. Data via FMP.Full tracker →
MetricMSNUE
Forward yield2.48%1.34%
Annual dividend / share$3.93$2.21
Payout ratio50%50%
1-year div growth0%0%
5-year div CAGR100%36.9%
Portfolio after 10y$167.43M$37.0K
Annual income after 10y$155,391,640.16$5,036.01
Total dividends collected$166.51M$15.0K
Payment frequencyquarterlyquarterly
SectorFinancialsMaterials
Analyst consensusBuyBuy
Analyst price target$196.00$179.67

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

YearMS PortfolioMS Income/yrNUE PortfolioNUE Income/yrGap
1← crossover$11,196$495.85$10,884$183.64+$312.00MS
2$13,017$1,037.65$11,901$255.72+$1.1KMS
3$16,183$2,255.06$13,092$357.77+$3.1KMS
4$22,557$5,240.32$14,512$503.54+$8.0KMS
5$37,788$13,652.33$16,242$714.13+$21.5KMS
6$83,183$42,749.57$18,402$1,022.61+$64.8KMS
7$264,902$175,896.68$21,172$1,482.33+$243.7KMS
8$1,330,469$1,047,023.74$24,836$2,182.08+$1.31MMS
9$11,252,891$9,829,288.79$29,850$3,275.00+$11.22MMS
10$167,432,233$155,391,640.16$36,975$5,036.01+$167.40MMS

MS vs NUE: Complete Analysis 2026

MSFinancials

Morgan Stanley, a financial holding company, provides various financial products and services to corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. It operates through Institutional Securities, Wealth Management, and Investment Management segments. The Institutional Securities segment offers capital raising and financial advisory services, including services related to the underwriting of debt, equity, and other securities, as well as advice on mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, real estate, and project finance. This segment also provides sales and trading services, such as sales, financing, prime brokerage, and market-making services in equity and fixed income products consisting of foreign exchange and commodities; corporate and commercial real estate loans, which provides secured lending facilities and financing for sales and trading customers, and asset-backed and mortgage lending; and wealth management services, investment, and research services. The Wealth Management segment offers financial advisor-led brokerage and investment advisory services; self-directed brokerage services; financial and wealth planning services; workplace services, including stock plan administration; annuity and insurance products; securities-based lending, residential real estate loans, and other lending products; banking; and retirement plan services to individual investors and small to medium-sized businesses and institutions. The Investment Management segment provides equity, fixed income, liquidity, and alternative/other products to benefit/defined contribution plans, foundations, endowments, government entities, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, and third-party fund sponsors and corporations through institutional and intermediary channels. Morgan Stanley was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in New York, 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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