Fertilizer Stocks To Watch Now - April 21st

Key Points

• CF Industries, Nutrien and Mosaic are MarketBeat's fertilizer stocks to watch, having recorded the highest dollar trading volume among fertilizer companies in recent days.
• Fertilizer stocks are cyclical and highly sensitive to global crop demand, input costs (especially natural gas), seasonality, weather, and trade or regulatory developments—factors that can quickly drive price moves (and have recently been linked to events like a Hormuz closure).

CF Industries, Nutrien, and Mosaic are the three Fertilizer stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Fertilizer stocks are shares of companies that manufacture, distribute, or sell fertilizer and crop-nutrient products, representing an investor’s exposure to the agricultural inputs sector. Their revenues and valuations tend to be cyclical and sensitive to global crop demand, fertilizer and commodity (especially natural gas) input costs, seasonality, weather, and trade or regulatory changes. 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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