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Top Manufacturing Stocks To Watch Now - March 13th

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Key Points

  • Five manufacturing stocks to watch: MarketBeat's screener highlights TSM, AMAT, PSX, GTLS, and JCI as the Manufacturing stocks with the highest recent dollar trading volume.
  • Semiconductor focus amid AI demand: Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM) and Applied Materials (AMAT) are emphasized as key semiconductor players tied to the ongoing AI-driven chip surge, while the other names provide exposure to energy, cryogenic/process equipment, and building systems.
  • Why it matters: Manufacturing stocks are sensitive to the industrial cycle—revenues and valuations react to economic growth, commodity and labor costs, capital spending, and supply‑chain conditions, making them a way to play macro trends.
  • MarketBeat previews top five stocks to own in May.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, Applied Materials, Phillips 66, Chart Industries, and Johnson Controls International are the five Manufacturing stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Manufacturing stocks are shares of publicly traded companies that make physical goods through industrial processes—examples include automakers, machinery and equipment makers, electronics manufacturers, and consumer appliance firms. Investors buy these stocks to gain exposure to the industrial cycle, since their revenues and valuations are often sensitive to economic growth, commodity and labor costs, capital spending, and supply‑chain conditions. 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.

Read Our Latest Research Report on TSM

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

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.

Read Our Latest Research Report on PSX

Chart Industries (GTLS)

Chart Industries, Inc. engages in the designing, engineering, and manufacturing of process technologies and equipment for the gas and liquid molecules in the United States and internationally. The company operates in four segments: Cryo Tank Solutions, Heat Transfer Systems, Specialty Products, and Repair, Service & Leasing.

Read Our Latest Research Report on GTLS

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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