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Manufacturing Stocks To Follow Today - March 22nd

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Key Points

  • MarketBeat's screener highlights five manufacturing stocks with the highest recent dollar trading volume: Applied Materials (AMAT), Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM), Solstice Advanced Materials (SOLS), Medline (MDLN), and Johnson Controls (JCI).
  • These names span semiconductors, specialty materials, medical‑surgical supplies and building systems, offering diversified exposure within manufacturing and notable investor interest in chip-related firms.
  • Investors should remember manufacturing stocks are typically cyclical and capital‑intensive, so metrics like capacity utilization, order backlogs, margins, automation adoption and valuation/dividend profiles are key when evaluating these picks.
  • Five stocks we like better than Applied Materials.

Applied Materials, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, Solstice Advanced Mat, Medline, and Johnson Controls International are the five Manufacturing stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Manufacturing stocks are shares of companies whose primary business is producing physical goods—such as autos, industrial machinery, electronics, chemicals, and consumer products—through assembly, fabrication or processing. Investors view them as typically cyclical and capital‑intensive, sensitive to economic growth, commodity prices and supply‑chain dynamics, so they focus on metrics like capacity utilization, order backlogs, margins, automation/technology adoption and valuation/dividend characteristics when assessing them. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Manufacturing stocks within the last several days.

Applied Materials (AMAT)

Applied Materials, Inc. engages in the provision of manufacturing equipment, services, and software to the semiconductor, display, and related industries. The company operates through three segments: Semiconductor Systems, Applied Global Services, and Display and Adjacent Markets. The Semiconductor Systems segment develops, manufactures, and sells various manufacturing equipment that is used to fabricate semiconductor chips or integrated circuits.

Read Our Latest Research Report on AMAT

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM)

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures, packages, tests, and sells integrated circuits and other semiconductor devices in Taiwan, China, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Japan, the United States, and internationally. It provides a range of wafer fabrication processes, including processes to manufacture complementary metal- oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) logic, mixed-signal, radio frequency, embedded memory, bipolar CMOS mixed-signal, and others.

Read Our Latest Research Report on TSM

Solstice Advanced Mat (SOLS)

Solstice Advanced Materials is a leading global specialty materials company that advances science for smarter outcomes. Solstice offers high-performance solutions that enable critical industries and applications, including refrigerants, semiconductor manufacturing, data center cooling, nuclear power, protective fibers, healthcare packaging and more.

Read Our Latest Research Report on SOLS

Medline (MDLN)

Our mission is to make healthcare run better by delivering improved clinical, financial, and operational outcomes. We are the largest provider of medical-surgical (“med-surg”) products and supply chain solutions serving all points of care, based on total net sales of med-surg products. We deliver mission-critical products used daily across the full range of care settings, from hospitals and surgery centers to physician offices and post-acute facilities.

Read Our Latest Research Report on MDLN

Johnson Controls International (JCI)

Johnson Controls International plc, together with its subsidiaries, engages in engineering, manufacturing, commissioning, and retrofitting building products and systems in the United States, Europe, the Asia Pacific, and internationally. It operates in four segments: Building Solutions North America, Building Solutions EMEA/LA, Building Solutions Asia Pacific, and Global Products.

Read Our Latest Research Report on JCI

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