Top Manufacturing Stocks To Consider - March 12th

Key Points

• MarketBeat’s screener lists TSM (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing), AMAT (Applied Materials) and PSX (Phillips 66) as the top manufacturing stocks to watch based on the highest recent dollar trading volume.
• TSM and AMAT are central to semiconductor fabrication and equipment—positions tied to AI-driven chip demand—while PSX provides energy exposure through refining, chemicals and midstream logistics.
• Manufacturing stocks are capital-intensive and cyclical, so they are particularly sensitive to economic growth, commodity prices, labor and supply-chain conditions, and trade policy, amplifying both upside and downside risk.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, Applied Materials, and Phillips 66 are the three Manufacturing stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Manufacturing stocks are equities of companies whose primary business is producing physical goods—ranging from raw‑material processors and component makers to finished‑goods manufacturers such as automakers, electronics producers, and industrial machinery firms. For investors, these stocks tend to be capital‑intensive and cyclical, sensitive to economic growth, commodity prices, labor and supply‑chain conditions, and trade policy, which can mean strong upside in expansions but greater downside in downturns. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Manufacturing stocks within the last several days.

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.

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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.

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Phillips 66 (PSX)

Phillips 66 operates as an energy manufacturing and logistics company in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and internationally. It operates through four segments: Midstream, Chemicals, Refining, and Marketing and Specialties (M&S). The Midstream segment transports crude oil and other feedstocks; delivers refined petroleum products to market; provides terminaling and storage services for crude oil and refined petroleum products; transports, stores, fractionates, exports, and markets natural gas liquids; provides other fee-based processing services; and gathers, processes, transports, and markets natural gas.

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