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Top Fertilizer Stocks To Follow Now - October 17th

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Key Points

  • Five key fertilizer stocks to watch now include Mosaic, CF Industries, Nutrien, CVR Energy, and Intrepid Potash, driven by factors such as global crop demand and geopolitical supply disruptions.
  • The performance of these stocks is heavily influenced by commodity cycles and geopolitical events, making them sensitive to agricultural trends and pricing volatility.
  • These companies have recently experienced the highest dollar trading volume in the fertilizer sector, indicating increased investor interest and potential opportunities in the market.
  • MarketBeat previews top five stocks to own in November.

Mosaic, CF Industries, Nutrien, 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 publicly traded companies that manufacture, distribute, or supply fertilizers and related crop nutrients (nitrogen, phosphate, potash) used in agriculture. Investors treat them as cyclical agribusiness plays whose earnings are driven by farm commodity prices and planting seasonality, input costs (especially natural gas), global crop demand, trade policies and weather, making them sensitive to commodity cycles and geopolitical supply disruptions. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Fertilizer stocks within the last several days.

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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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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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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