Hottest Basic Materials Stocks Now – X SLW HL AG
by Portfolio Grader | July 11, 2014 6:00 pm
Basic materials stocks rose broadly on Wall Street on Friday, with the sector seeing an overall increase of 0.2%.
More broadly, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.1%, the Nasdaq pushed 0.6% higher and the S&P 500 was up 0.1%.
Some of the biggest gainers among basic materials stocks include:
- United States Steel Corp (X[1]): X stock is up 3.2% today on 3 times normal volume.
- Silver Wheaton Corp (SLW[2]): SLW stock is up 2.7% today.
- Hecla Mining Company (HL[3]): HL stock is up 2.7% today.
- First Majestic Silver (AG[4]): AG stock is up 2.0% today.
- Harmony Gold Mining Co. Ltd (HMY[5]): HMY stock is up 1.9% today.
- Eldorado Gold Corp (EGO[6]): EGO stock is up 1.7% today and up 20.8% in the last month.
- Westlake Chemical Corp (WLK[7]): WLK stock is up 1.5% today.
- Hudbay Minerals Inc (HBM[8]): HBM stock is up 1.5% today.
- Steel Dynamics (STLD[9]): STLD stock is up 1.2% today.
- Kapstone Paper and Packaging Corp (KS[10]): KS stock is up 1.1% today.
Some of the biggest losers among basic materials stocks include:
- Monsanto Company (MON[11]): MON stock is down 1.4% today.
- Methanex Corp (MEOH[12]): MEOH stock is down 1.1% today.
- Cvr Partners LP Common Units R (UAN[13]): UAN stock is down 1.1% today.
- Cameco Corp (CCJ[14]): CCJ stock is down 1.0%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has decreased.
- Ternium S.A. (TX[15]): TX stock is down 0.9% today.
- Raven Industries (RAVN[16]): RAVN stock is down 0.9% today.
- Stepan Company (SCL[17]): SCL stock is down 0.9% today.
- Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (SMG[18]): SMG stock is down 0.9% today.
- Innophos Holdings (IPHS[19]): IPHS stock is down 0.7% today.
- Mrc Global Inc (MRC[20]): MRC 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:
- X: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=X
- SLW: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=SLW
- HL: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=HL
- AG: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=AG
- HMY: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=HMY
- EGO: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=EGO
- WLK: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=WLK
- HBM: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=HBM
- STLD: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=STLD
- KS: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=KS
- MON: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=MON
- MEOH: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=MEOH
- UAN: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=UAN
- CCJ: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=CCJ
- TX: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=TX
- RAVN: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=RAVN
- SCL: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=SCL
- SMG: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=SMG
- IPHS: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=IPHS
- MRC: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=MRC
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