After-hours trading runs 4:00 PM – 8:00 PM ET.
📅 STLD reported earnings on Oct 19, 2026 after the close, with an estimated EPS of $5.46. STLD earnings details →
Over the past 5 years, STLD has had 9 qualifying gap events (gaps of 5% or more at the open) — 5 gap-ups and 4 gap-downs. Gap-ups averaged +7.1%, 80% have fully filled, median time to fill 20 trading days. Gap-downs averaged -5.4%, 100% have fully filled, median time to fill 1 trading day. Most recent: a -5.1% gap down 3 days ago, which filled in 1 trading day. Average 20-trading-day return after a STLD gap up: -4%. After a gap down: +8.77%.
| 1 day | 1 week | 2 week | 4 week | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| fills 25% | 60% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| fills 50% | 20% | 60% | 100% | 100% |
| fills 75% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 80% |
| fills 100% | 20% | 20% | 20% | 40% |
| 1 day | 1 week | 2 week | 4 week | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| fills 25% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| fills 50% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| fills 75% | 75% | 75% | 100% | 100% |
| fills 100% | 75% | 75% | 100% | 100% |
| Date | Gap From | Gap % | Status | Days to 50% | Days to Fill | % of Gap Filled After | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 day | 1 week | 2 week | 4 week | ||||||
| 3 days ago | $245.17 | -5.11% | Filled | 1d | 1d | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2026-02-13 | $199.51 | -5.27% | Filled | 1d | 11d | 50% | 70% | 100% | 100% |
| 2025-09-16 | $131.58 | +5.15% | Open | 8d | — | 43% | 46% | 51% | 51% |
| 2025-06-02 | $123.07 | +10.18% | Filled | 8d | 43d | 12% | 37% | 64% | 88% |
| 2025-02-10 | $126.71 | +5.53% | Filled | 4d | 16d | 27% | 62% | 62% | 100% |
| 2024-11-06 | $135.65 | +9.47% | Filled | 6d | 24d | 12% | 53% | 92% | 92% |
| 2024-04-24 | $134.16 | +5.14% | Filled | 1d | 1d | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2024-01-24 | $116.14 | -5.22% | Filled | 1d | 1d | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2022-01-25 | $54.70 | -5.89% | Filled | 1d | 1d | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
Steel Dynamics (STLD) has no recorded after-hours trades for the latest session. Its regular-session close was $239.84. After-hours quotes appear here when the stock trades between 4:00 PM and 8:00 PM ET.
After-hours trading in STLD on the NASDAQ runs from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM ET on trading days, immediately after the regular session closes. Not every broker offers the full window, and liquidity thins sharply after about 6:30 PM ET.
An after-hours move that carries into the next session becomes an opening gap, and STLD's gap history is the best guide to what happens next: 80% of STLD gap-ups have fully filled, and 100% of gap-downs have filled over the past 5 years. Fill rates this high mean a large after-hours move is more often faded than extended.
STLD reported earnings on Oct 19, 2026 after the close, with an estimated EPS of $5.46. Earnings are the most common cause of a large after-hours move, since most companies report after the close.