Basic materials stocks finished flat on Thursday on Wall Street.
More broadly, the Dow Jones Industrial Average remained flat, the Nasdaq was steady and the S&P 500 was unchanged.
Some of the biggest gainers among basic materials stocks include:
- Barrick Gold Corp (ABX): ABX stock is up 1.4% today.
- Eldorado Gold Corp (EGO): EGO stock is up 1.3% today and up 25.7% in the last month.
- Sealed Air Corp (SEE): SEE stock is up 1.1% today.
- Century Aluminum Company (CENX): CENX stock is up 1.1% today.
- United States Steel Corp (X): X stock is up 1.0%, marking the 10th consecutive day the stock has increased.
- Goldcorp Inc (GG): GG stock is up 0.9% today.
- Newmont Mining Corp (NEM): NEM stock is up 0.8% today.
- Iamgold Corp (IAG): IAG stock is up 0.8% today and up 31.9% in the last month.
- Greif Bros. Corp (GEF): GEF stock is up 0.7% today.
- Harmony Gold Mining Co. Ltd (HMY): HMY stock is up 0.7% today.
Some of the biggest losers among basic materials stocks include:
- Worthington Industries (WOR): WOR stock is down 2.0% today.
- Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (SMG): SMG stock is down 1.2% today.
- Calgon Carbon Corp (CCC): CCC stock is down 1.1% today.
- Carpenter Technology Corp (CRS): CRS stock is down 1.1% today.
- Precision Castparts Corp (PCP): PCP stock is down 1.1% today.
- Cytec Industries Inc (CYT): CYT stock is down 1.0% today.
- Clearwater Paper Corp (CLW): CLW stock is down 1.0% today.
- Minerals Technologies Inc (MTX): MTX stock is down 1.0% today.
- Mueller Industries (MLI): MLI stock is down 1.0% today.
- RBC Bearings Inc (ROLL): ROLL stock is down 1.0% 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.
