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Best Fertilizer Stocks To Add to Your Watchlist - March 14th

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Key Points

  • CF Industries (CF), Mosaic (MOS), and Nutrien (NTR) are MarketBeat's top three fertilizer stocks to watch today.
  • Fertilizer stocks are cyclical and commodity-sensitive, with returns driven by planting seasons, crop prices, energy and raw-material costs (notably natural gas for nitrogen), weather, and global trade or regulatory shifts.
  • Those three companies recorded the highest dollar trading volume among fertilizer stocks in recent days, indicating elevated investor interest.
  • Five stocks to consider instead of CF Industries.

CF Industries, Mosaic, and Nutrien are the three Fertilizer stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Fertilizer stocks are shares of companies that produce, process, distribute or sell fertilizers and crop-nutrient products (e.g., nitrogen, phosphate, potash) and related agricultural inputs. Investors treat them as cyclical, commodity-sensitive plays: returns are driven by planting seasons and crop prices, energy and raw-material costs (notably natural gas for nitrogen), weather, and global trade or regulatory shifts that affect supply and demand. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Fertilizer stocks within the last several days.

CF Industries (CF)

CF Industries Holdings, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of hydrogen and nitrogen products for energy, fertilizer, emissions abatement, and other industrial activities in North America, Europe, and internationally. It operates through Ammonia, Granular Urea, UAN, AN, and Other segments.

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Mosaic (MOS)

The Mosaic Company, through its subsidiaries, produces and markets concentrated phosphate and potash crop nutrients in North America and internationally. The company operates through three segments: Phosphates, Potash, and Mosaic Fertilizantes. It owns and operates mines, which produce concentrated phosphate crop nutrients, such as diammonium phosphate, monoammonium phosphate, and ammoniated phosphate products; and phosphate-based animal feed ingredients primarily under the Biofos and Nexfos brand names, as well as produces a double sulfate of potash magnesia product under K-Mag brand name.

Read Our Latest Research Report on MOS

Nutrien (NTR)

Nutrien Ltd. provides crop inputs and services. The company operates through four segments: Retail, Potash, Nitrogen, and Phosphate. The Retail segment distributes crop nutrients, crop protection products, seeds, and merchandise products. The Potash segment provides granular and standard potash products.

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