Top Fertilizer Stocks To Keep An Eye On - May 2nd

Key Points

• MarketBeat's screener flagged five fertilizer stocks with the highest recent dollar trading volume to watch today: CF (CF Industries), NTR (Nutrien), MOS (Mosaic), CVI (CVR Energy), and LXU (LSB Industries).
• Fertilizer stocks provide exposure to agricultural demand and are highly cyclical—performance is sensitive to crop prices, planting seasonality, weather, input and energy costs, and government policies.
• Several names combine fertilizer production with energy or refining operations (e.g., CF's ammonia/nitrogen businesses and CVR's petroleum plus nitrogen fertilizer segments), highlighting the sector's close ties to energy costs and global supply dynamics.

CF Industries, Nutrien, Mosaic, CVR Energy, and Lsb Industries 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 other crop nutrients. For investors, they provide exposure to agricultural demand and commodity cycles—tied to crop prices, planting seasonality, weather, input and energy costs, and government policies—making them often cyclical and sensitive to global supply/demand dynamics. 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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Lsb Industries (LXU)

LSB Industries, Inc. engages in the manufacture, marketing, and sale of chemical products. The company provides nitrogen-based fertilizers, such as ammonia, fertilizer grade high density ammonium nitrate (HDAN), and urea ammonia nitrate for fertilizer for corn, pastures, and other crops, as well as nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium (NPK) fertilizer blends application.

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