Best Fertilizer Stocks To Consider - August 4th

Key Points

• Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern, and CSX are highlighted as key Fertilizer stocks to watch due to their significant trading volumes and role in the agricultural inputs sector.
• Union Pacific's stock traded at $222.09 with a market cap of $131.71 billion, while Norfolk Southern reached $278.89, emphasizing the companies' fluctuating performance in the fertilizer market.
• CSX Corporation provides rail-based transportation for a variety of products, including fertilizers, and has a market cap of $66.09 billion, reflecting its strong position in the sector.

Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern, and CSX 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 fertilizers used to enhance soil fertility and crop yields. By investing in these stocks, shareholders gain exposure to the agricultural inputs sector and its sensitivity to global crop demand, weather patterns and government policies. Their performance often fluctuates with raw-material costs (like natural gas or phosphate), seasonal planting cycles and shifts in food-price dynamics. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Fertilizer stocks within the last several days.

Union Pacific (UNP)

Union Pacific Corporation, through its subsidiary, Union Pacific Railroad Company, operates in the railroad business in the United States. The company offers transportation services for grain and grain products, fertilizers, food and refrigerated products, and coal and renewables to grain processors, animal feeders, ethanol producers, renewable biofuel producers, and other agricultural users; and construction products, industrial chemicals, plastics, forest products, specialized products, metals and ores, petroleum, liquid petroleum gases, soda ash, and sand, as well as finished automobiles, automotive parts, and merchandise in intermodal containers.

NYSE:UNP traded up $2.69 during mid-day trading on Monday, reaching $222.09. 1,824,959 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 3,323,269. The company has a 50 day simple moving average of $227.04 and a 200-day simple moving average of $230.83. The stock has a market capitalization of $131.71 billion, a P/E ratio of 19.32, a P/E/G ratio of 2.14 and a beta of 1.05. The company has a quick ratio of 0.53, a current ratio of 0.65 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.86. Union Pacific has a 1 year low of $204.66 and a 1 year high of $258.07.

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Norfolk Southern (NSC)

Norfolk Southern Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the rail transportation of raw materials, intermediate products, and finished goods in the United States. The company transports agriculture, forest, and consumer products comprising soybeans, wheat, corn, fertilizers, livestock and poultry feed, food products, food oils, flour, sweeteners, ethanol, lumber and wood products, pulp board and paper products, wood fibers, wood pulp, beverages, and canned goods; chemicals consist of sulfur and related chemicals, petroleum products comprising crude oil, chlorine and bleaching compounds, plastics, rubber, industrial chemicals, chemical wastes, sand, and natural gas liquids; metals and construction materials, such as steel, aluminum products, machinery, scrap metals, cement, aggregates, minerals, clay, transportation equipment, and military-related products; and automotive, including finished motor vehicles and automotive parts, as well as coal.

NYSE:NSC traded up $4.04 during mid-day trading on Monday, reaching $278.89. 1,087,469 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 1,533,304. The company has a 50 day simple moving average of $259.97 and a 200-day simple moving average of $244.71. The stock has a market capitalization of $62.64 billion, a P/E ratio of 18.88, a P/E/G ratio of 2.44 and a beta of 1.31. The company has a quick ratio of 0.71, a current ratio of 0.79 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.11. Norfolk Southern has a 1 year low of $201.63 and a 1 year high of $288.11.

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CSX (CSX)

CSX Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides rail-based freight transportation services. The company offers rail services; and transportation of intermodal containers and trailers, as well as other transportation services, such as rail-to-truck transfers and bulk commodity operations. It also transports chemicals, agricultural and food products, minerals, automotive, forest products, fertilizers, and metals and equipment; and coal, coke, and iron ore to electricity-generating power plants, steel manufacturers, and industrial plants, as well as exports coal to deep-water port facilities.

CSX stock traded up $0.44 during mid-day trading on Monday, reaching $35.45. 7,345,964 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 16,039,925. CSX has a twelve month low of $26.22 and a twelve month high of $37.10. The firm's 50-day simple moving average is $33.14 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $31.36. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.50, a quick ratio of 0.63 and a current ratio of 0.77. The firm has a market cap of $66.09 billion, a PE ratio of 21.92, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.62 and a beta of 1.25.

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