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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-016855"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "STLD"
cik: "0001022671"
company_name: "STEEL DYNAMICS INC"
filed_at: "2025-02-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T04:18:22.913142+00:00"
event_type: "dividend"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Steel Dynamics raises Q1 2025 dividend by 9% to $0.50/share and authorizes $1.5B buyback

## Summary
- Quarterly cash dividend increased 9% to $0.50 per share; payable April 11, 2025 to holders of record March 31, 2025.
- Board authorized additional $1.5 billion share repurchase program, additive to prior $1.5B program with $194M remaining.
- Since 2017, company has repurchased $6.7B of common stock (41% of shares) and paid $1.7B in dividends through Dec 31, 2024.
- Company invested $7.1B in capital and acquisitions over last five years, achieving 24% after-tax ROIC.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-016855
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: STLD
- cik: 0001022671
- company_name: STEEL DYNAMICS INC
- filed_at: 2025-02-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: dividend
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1022671/000110465925016855/0001104659-25-016855-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1022671/000110465925016855/tm257450d1_8k.htm

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