Top Fertilizer Stocks To Follow Now - April 14th

Key Points

• MarketBeat's screener flags CF Industries (CF), Mosaic (MOS), and Nutrien (NTR) as the top fertilizer stocks to watch based on the highest recent dollar trading volume.
• These companies produce major fertilizer inputs — nitrogen, phosphate and potash — providing investors exposure to the agricultural-inputs sector.
• The sector is cyclical and commodity-sensitive, driven by crop prices, planting cycles, weather and natural-gas/raw-material costs, and is vulnerable to geopolitical, regulatory and environmental risks; recent events like a Hormuz closure have acted as a catalyst boosting these stocks.

CF Industries, Mosaic, and Nutrien 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 fertilizer products (such as nitrogen, phosphate, and potash) and related agricultural inputs. For investors, they provide exposure to the agricultural-inputs sector and tend to be cyclical and commodity-sensitive—driven by crop prices, planting cycles, weather, natural-gas and raw-material costs, and subject to geopolitical, regulatory and environmental risks. 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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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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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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