Best Fertilizer Stocks To Watch Today - October 21st

Key Points

• CF Industries, Nutrien, Mosaic, CVR Energy, and Intrepid Potash are the top five fertilizer stocks currently being watched, linked to their high trading volumes and roles in agricultural demand.
• These companies' performance is significantly affected by factors such as crop prices, natural gas costs, and weather conditions, indicating their cyclical and volatile nature.
• CF Industries specializes in hydrogen and nitrogen products, while Nutrien provides a range of crop inputs and services across multiple segments including retail and potash.

CF Industries, Nutrien, Mosaic, CVR Energy, and Intrepid Potash are the five Fertilizer stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Fertilizer stocks are shares of companies that produce, distribute, or sell fertilizer and crop nutrient products (including nitrogen, phosphate and potash producers, specialty formulators, and agricultural retailers). Investors view them as a play on global agricultural demand and commodity cycles; their earnings and stock prices are driven by crop prices, input costs (notably natural gas), weather, trade policy and environmental regulation, making them cyclical and sometimes volatile. 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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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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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.

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CVR Energy (CVI)

CVR Energy, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the petroleum refining and marketing, and nitrogen fertilizer manufacturing activities in the United States. It operates in two segments, Petroleum and Nitrogen Fertilizer. The Petroleum segment refines and supplies gasoline, crude oil, distillate, diesel fuel, and other refined products.

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Intrepid Potash (IPI)

Intrepid Potash, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the extraction and production of the potash in the United States and internationally. It operates through three segments: Potash, Trio, and Oilfield Solutions. The company offers muriate of potash for various markets, such as agricultural market as a fertilizer input; the industrial market as a component in drilling and fracturing fluids for oil and gas wells, as well as an input to other industrial processes; and the animal feed market as a nutrient supplement.

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