Hottest Basic Materials Stocks Now – SIAL GPK SMG FOE
by Portfolio Grader | April 24, 2014 12:00 pm
Basic materials stocks fell broadly 0.4% on Wall Street so far on Thursday.
More broadly, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 0.1%, the Nasdaq rose 0.7% and the S&P 500 fell 0.1%.
Some of the biggest gainers among basic materials stocks include:
- Sigma-Aldrich Corp (SIAL[1]): SIAL stock is up 2.9% to a new 52-week high of $96.50.
- Graphic Packaging Holding Company (GPK[2]): GPK stock is up 2.4% today.
- Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (SMG[3]): SMG stock is up 2.4% today.
- Ferro Corp (FOE[4]): FOE stock is up 2.0% today.
- Freeport-Mcmoran Copper & Gold (FCX[5]): FCX stock is up 1.6%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has increased.
- Methanex Corp (MEOH[6]): MEOH stock is up 1.6% today.
- Novagold Resources Inc (NG[7]): NG stock is up 1.1%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has increased.
- Clearwater Paper Corp (CLW[8]): CLW stock is up 1.0%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has increased.
- Sasol Ltd (SSL[9]): SSL stock is up 1.0% today.
- Matthews International Corp (MATW[10]): MATW stock is up 0.6% today.
Some of the biggest losers among basic materials stocks include:
- Newmarket Corp (NEU[11]): NEU stock is down 7.4% today.
- Fibria Celulose S.A. (FBR[12]): FBR stock is down 2.8% to a new 52-week low of $10.00.
- Carpenter Technology Corp (CRS[13]): CRS stock is down 2.2% today.
- Harmony Gold Mining Co. Ltd (HMY[14]): HMY stock is down 2.1% today.
- Kaiser Aluminum Corp (KALU[15]): KALU stock is down 1.9%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has decreased.
- Reliance Steel & Aluminum Company (RS[16]): RS stock is down 1.9% today.
- Green Plains Renewable Energy (GPRE[17]): GPRE stock is down 1.9% today.
- Nucor Corp (NUE[18]): NUE stock is down 1.8% today.
- Sociedad Quimica Y Minera S.A. (SQM[19]): SQM stock is down 1.7%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has decreased.
- Newmont Mining Corp (NEM[20]): NEM stock is down 1.6% today.
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Editor’s Note: Returns for the fastest-moving stocks listed here are based on share prices 20 minutes prior to publication of this story.
Endnotes:
- SIAL: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=SIAL
- GPK: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=GPK
- SMG: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=SMG
- FOE: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=FOE
- FCX: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=FCX
- MEOH: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=MEOH
- NG: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=NG
- CLW: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=CLW
- SSL: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=SSL
- MATW: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=MATW
- NEU: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=NEU
- FBR: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=FBR
- CRS: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=CRS
- HMY: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=HMY
- KALU: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=KALU
- RS: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=RS
- GPRE: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=GPRE
- NUE: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=NUE
- SQM: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=SQM
- NEM: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=NEM
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