Hottest Basic Materials Stocks Now – VHI CCC IPI SIM
by Portfolio Grader | June 27, 2014 6:30 pm
Basic materials stocks finished down broadly on Wall Street on Friday, with the sector seeing an overall decline of 0.3%.
More broadly, the Dow Jones Industrial Average pushed 0.2% higher, the Nasdaq was up 0.4% and the S&P 500 increased 0.2%.
Some of the biggest gainers among basic materials stocks include:
- Valhi Inc (VHI[1]): VHI stock is up 4.7% today on 16 times normal volume.
- Calgon Carbon Corp (CCC[2]): CCC stock is up 2.7% today.
- Intrepid Potash Inc (IPI[3]): IPI stock is up 2.5% today on 9 times normal volume.
- Grupo Simec S.A. De C.V. (SIM[4]): SIM stock is up 2.5% today.
- Ferro Corp (FOE[5]): FOE stock is up 2.3% today.
- AK Steel Holding Corp (AKS[6]): AKS stock is up 2.1% today and up 26.2% in the last month.
- Newmarket Corp (NEU[7]): NEU stock is up 2.0% today on 2 times normal volume.
- Cytec Industries Inc (CYT[8]): CYT stock is up 2.0% to $104.41, near the 52-week high of $104.41.
- Albany International Corp (AIN[9]): AIN stock is up 1.9% today.
- Glatfelter (GLT[10]): GLT stock is up 1.7% today on 3 times normal volume.
Some of the biggest losers among basic materials stocks include:
- Nucor Corp (NUE[11]): NUE stock is down 1.5% today.
- Encore Wire Corp (WIRE[12]): WIRE stock is down 1.4% today on 5 times normal volume.
- Globe Specialty Metals Inc (GSM[13]): GSM stock is down 1.2% today on 5 times normal volume.
- Kronos Worldwide Inc (KRO[14]): KRO stock is down 1.2% today on 7 times normal volume.
- Pan American Silver (PAAS[15]): PAAS stock is down 1.1% today.
- Carpenter Technology Corp (CRS[16]): CRS stock is down 1.0% today.
- Monsanto Company (MON[17]): MON stock is down 0.9% today.
- Yamana Gold (AUY[18]): AUY stock is down 0.7% today.
- Harmony Gold Mining Co. Ltd (HMY[19]): HMY stock is down 0.7% today.
- Anglogold Ashanti Ltd (AU[20]): AU stock is down 0.7% 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:
- VHI: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=VHI
- CCC: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=CCC
- IPI: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=IPI
- SIM: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=SIM
- FOE: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=FOE
- AKS: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=AKS
- NEU: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=NEU
- CYT: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=CYT
- AIN: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=AIN
- GLT: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=GLT
- NUE: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=NUE
- WIRE: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=WIRE
- GSM: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=GSM
- KRO: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=KRO
- PAAS: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=PAAS
- CRS: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=CRS
- MON: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=MON
- AUY: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=AUY
- HMY: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=HMY
- AU: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=AU
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