Capital goods stocks rose 0.5% on Wall Street so far on Wednesday.
More broadly, the Dow Jones Industrial Average increased 0.5%, the Nasdaq was up 0.4% and the S&P 500 climbed 0.5%.
Some of the biggest gainers among capital goods stocks include:
- Watsco Inc (WSO): WSO stock is up 2.9% today.
- Tenaris S.A. (TS): TS stock is up 2.5% today.
- CRH Plc (CRH): CRH stock is up 2.3% today.
- Elbit Systems Ltd (ESLT): ESLT stock is up 2.3% today.
- Chart Industries (GTLS): GTLS stock is up 2.6% today and up 23.0% in the last month.
- Harsco Corp (HSC): HSC stock is up 1.8% today.
- Valmont Industries (VMI): VMI stock is up 1.9% today.
- Headwaters Inc (HW): HW stock is up 1.6% today.
- Fluor Corp (FLR): FLR stock is up 1.1% today.
- Lennox International (LII): LII stock is up 1.5% today.
Some of the biggest losers among capital goods stocks include:
- Forest City Ent Cl A (FCE.A): FCE.A stock is down 1.3%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has decreased.
- NCI Building Systems (NCS): NCS stock is down 0.5% today.
- NVR Inc (NVR): NVR stock is down 0.4% today.
- Armstrong World Industries Inc (AWI): AWI stock is down 0.3% today.
- Louisiana-Pacific Corp (LPX): LPX stock is down 0.5% today.
- Dresser-Rand Group Inc (DRC): DRC stock is down 0.1% 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.
