If you are looking for a U.S. steel stock to add to your portfolio, perhaps to take advantage of the government-funded capital spending boom that appears to be ahead for the country, a good starting point is industry heavyweight (NYSE: NUE). But investors considering Nucor should strongly consider similar but smaller peer Steel Dynamics (NASDAQ: STLD). Here are a few reasons why it could be the no-brainer buy of the two.

Nucor is a very big steel company, with a market cap of roughly $43 billion. By comparison, Steel Dynamics is much smaller, with a market cap a touch under $18 billion. Given those metrics, it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that Nucor's revenues are materially larger than Steel Dynamics', as the chart below highlights.

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