Hottest Basic Materials Stocks Now – KS GEF AUY MUSA
by Portfolio Grader | June 2, 2014 6:15 pm
Basic materials stocks finished up broadly on Wall Street on Monday, with the sector seeing an overall increase of 0.4%.
More broadly, the Dow Jones Industrial Average pushed 0.1% higher, the Nasdaq remained flat and the S&P 500 rose 0.1%.
Some of the biggest gainers among basic materials stocks include:
- Kapstone Paper and Packaging Corp (KS[1]): KS stock is up 2.6% today.
- Greif Bros. Corp (GEF[2]): GEF stock is up 1.6%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has increased.
- Yamana Gold (AUY[3]): AUY stock is up 1.5%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has increased.
- Murphy USA Inc. Common Stock Wh (MUSA[4]): MUSA stock is up 1.4% today and up 22.1% in the last month.
- Cabot Corp (CBT[5]): CBT stock is up 1.2% today.
- Polypore International Inc (PPO[6]): PPO stock is up 1.2% today and up 28.1% in the last month.
- Graphic Packaging Holding Company (GPK[7]): GPK stock is up 1.0% to a new 52-week high of $11.10.
- Copene-Petroquimica Do Nordeste (BAK[8]): BAK stock is up 1.0% today.
- Eastman Chemical Company (EMN[9]): EMN stock is up 1.0% to a new 52-week high of $89.12.
- Berry Plastics Group Inc (BERY[10]): BERY stock is up 1.0% today.
Some of the biggest losers among basic materials stocks include:
- Valhi Inc (VHI[11]): VHI stock is down 4.2% today on 5 times normal volume.
- Matthews International Corp (MATW[12]): MATW stock is down 1.4% today.
- Simpson Manufacturing Company (SSD[13]): SSD stock is down 1.3% today.
- Mueller Industries (MLI[14]): MLI stock is down 1.2% today on 2 times normal volume.
- Curtiss-Wright Corp (CW[15]): CW stock is down 1.1% today.
- Innospec Inc (IOSP[16]): IOSP stock is down 1.0% today.
- A. Schulman (SHLM[17]): SHLM stock is down 1.0% today.
- Cvr Partners LP Common Units R (UAN[18]): UAN stock is down 0.9%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has decreased.
- Dominion Diamond Corp (DDC[19]): DDC stock is down 0.9% today.
- Pan American Silver (PAAS[20]): PAAS stock is down 0.9% 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:
- KS: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=KS
- GEF: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=GEF
- AUY: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=AUY
- MUSA: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=MUSA
- CBT: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=CBT
- PPO: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=PPO
- GPK: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=GPK
- BAK: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=BAK
- EMN: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=EMN
- BERY: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=BERY
- VHI: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=VHI
- MATW: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=MATW
- SSD: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=SSD
- MLI: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=MLI
- CW: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=CW
- IOSP: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=IOSP
- SHLM: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=SHLM
- UAN: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=UAN
- DDC: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=DDC
- PAAS: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=PAAS
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