This Steel Giant Posted Killer Q3 Numbers, but That's Not the Best Q3 News

North American steel giant Nucor (NYSE: NUE) has a goal: Financially speaking, it wants to produce higher highs as well as higher lows. That might sound a little like double speak -- but it isn't.

In fact, these goals force the company to take a long-term, growth-oriented approach with its business that has served customers and investors well for decades. And it's why the biggest news out of the third-quarter earnings report wasn't necessarily the company's record-setting financial results.

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