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Best Fertilizer Stocks To Add to Your Watchlist - October 6th

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Key Points

  • Nutrien, CF Industries, and Mosaic are highlighted as the top fertilizer stocks to watch, reflecting significant trading volume and potential growth opportunities in the agriculture sector.
  • Nutrien operates in crop inputs and services across four segments, while CF Industries focuses on nitrogen products, showcasing diverse operational structures within the fertilizer industry.
  • The performance of these fertilizer stocks is closely linked to global farming activity and agricultural commodity trends, influenced by factors such as supply-chain disruptions and long-term food demand growth.
  • Five stocks to consider instead of Nutrien.

Nutrien, CF Industries, and Mosaic are the three Fertilizer stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Fertilizer stocks are shares of publicly traded companies that manufacture, distribute or sell agricultural fertilizers and related crop‐nutrition products. Their performance is closely tied to global farming activity, crop prices and seasonal planting cycles. Investors in these stocks seek exposure to agricultural commodity trends, potential supply‐chain disruptions and long‐term food‐demand growth. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Fertilizer stocks within the last several days.

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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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.

Read Our Latest Research Report on CF

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

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