The company's downstream products segment is likely to have gained from non-residential construction markets in the quarter to be reported. Nucor, last month, said that the segment witnessed a strong third quarter driven by the resiliency of non-residential construction. Moreover, the company's bar and structural mills also gained from non-residential construction markets. Utilization rates for its sheet mills also improved throughout the third quarter. Nucor also witnessed a rise in demand and pricing for raw materials as well as sheet steel in the later part of the third quarter. However, lower pricing for DRI (direct reduced iron) is expected to have hurt the company's raw materials unit. Meanwhile, lower year-over-year domestic steel prices are likely to have exerted downward pressure on Nucor's selling prices and hurt its revenues and margins in the to-be-reported quarter.