Hottest Basic Materials Stocks Now – VAL CMC VHI NG
by Portfolio Grader | June 17, 2014 12:00 pm
Basic materials stocks advanced 0.1% on Wall Street on Tuesday morning.
More broadly, the Dow Jones Industrial Average remained flat, the Nasdaq climbed 0.2% and the S&P 500 stayed consistent.
Some of the biggest gainers among basic materials stocks include:
- Valspar Corp (VAL[1]): VAL stock is up 1.8% to $76.65, near the 52-week high of $76.67.
- Commercial Metals Company (CMC[2]): CMC stock is up 1.9% today.
- Valhi Inc (VHI[3]): VHI stock is up 1.6% today.
- Novagold Resources Inc (NG[4]): NG stock is up 1.3% today and up 31.1% in the last month.
- Reliance Steel & Aluminum Company (RS[5]): RS stock is up 1.5% today.
- Sensient Technologies Corp (SXT[6]): SXT stock is up 1.7% today.
- Chemtura Corp (CHMT[7]): CHMT stock is up 1.5% today.
- Royal Gold (RGLD[8]): RGLD stock is up 1.7% today.
- Airgas Inc (ARG[9]): ARG stock is up 1.4% today.
- Berry Plastics Group Inc (BERY[10]): BERY stock is up 1.2%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has increased.
Some of the biggest losers among basic materials stocks include:
- Sinopec Shangai Petrochemical Company Ltd (SHI[11]): SHI stock is down 4.2% today.
- Bhp Billiton Limited (BHP[12]): BHP stock is down 2.1% today.
- Iamgold Corp (IAG[13]): IAG stock is down 1.8% today.
- Bhp Billiton Plc (BBL[14]): BBL stock is down 1.6% today.
- Harmony Gold Mining Co. Ltd (HMY[15]): HMY stock is down 1.4%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has decreased.
- Sasol Ltd (SSL[16]): SSL stock is down 1.3% today.
- Pohang Iron & Steel Co. (PKX[17]): PKX stock is down 1.2%, marking the fifth consecutive day the stock has decreased.
- Stillwater Mining Company (SWC[18]): SWC stock is down 1.1% today.
- Aurico Gold Inc (AUQ[19]): AUQ stock is down 1.0% today.
- Vale S.A. (VALE[20]): VALE stock is down 1.2% 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:
- VAL: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=VAL
- CMC: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=CMC
- VHI: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=VHI
- NG: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=NG
- RS: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=RS
- SXT: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=SXT
- CHMT: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=CHMT
- RGLD: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=RGLD
- ARG: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=ARG
- BERY: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=BERY
- SHI: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=SHI
- BHP: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=BHP
- IAG: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=IAG
- BBL: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=BBL
- HMY: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=HMY
- SSL: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=SSL
- PKX: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=PKX
- SWC: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=SWC
- AUQ: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=AUQ
- VALE: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=VALE
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