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Note: Sector performance is calculated based on the previous closing price of all sector constituents
Industries in This Sector
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| Industry | Market Weight | Day Return | YTD Return |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Industries | 100% | -1.17% | 5.19% |
| Specialty Chemicals | 41.36% | -0.55% | 1.16% |
| Gold | 13.52% | -2.73% | 5.49% |
| Copper | 10.49% | -1.91% | 30.34% |
| Building Materials | 9.42% | -0.30% | 17.11% |
| Steel | 7.69% | -1.66% | -5.13% |
| Agricultural Inputs | 6.63% | -0.96% | 0.05% |
| Chemicals | 4.45% | -0.43% | 4.43% |
| Other Industrial Metals & Mining | 2.50% | -2.11% | 1.42% |
| Lumber & Wood Production | 1.25% | -0.62% | -11.48% |
| Coking Coal | 0.76% | -2.66% | 0.21% |
| Aluminum | 0.76% | -3.49% | 11.38% |
| Other Precious Metals & Mining | 0.70% | -2.88% | 23.93% |
| Paper & Paper Products | 0.25% | 2.58% | 22.86% |
| Silver | 0.23% | -2.32% | 15.38% |
Note: Percentage % data on heatmap indicates Day Return
All Industries
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Largest Companies in This Sector
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Name
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Last Price
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1Y Target Est.
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Market Weight
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Market Cap
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Day Change %
|
YTD Return
|
Avg. Analyst Rating
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 441.95 | 473.92 | 15.44% |
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Buy
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| 119.51 | 88.38 | 6.70% |
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Hold
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| 303.82 | 342.67 | 5.60% |
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Buy
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| 50.95 | 48.10 | 5.32% |
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Buy
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| 228.69 | 234.28 | 4.74% |
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Hold
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| 78.50 | 95.06 | 3.91% |
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Buy
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| 231.85 | 268.35 | 3.74% |
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Buy
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| 40.90 | 62.91 | 3.42% |
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Buy
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| 173.01 | 189.06 | 3.01% |
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Buy
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| 57.63 | 60.68 | 2.96% |
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Hold
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Investing in the Basic Materials Sector
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ETF Opportunities
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Name
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Last Price
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Net Assets
|
Expense Ratio
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YTD Return
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 89.39 | 5.791B | 0.09% |
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| 196.29 | 4.238B | 0.10% |
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| 60.28 | 1.805B | 0.35% |
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| 142.37 | 627.855M | 0.40% |
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| 50.28 | 528.816M | 0.08% |
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Mutual Fund Opportunities
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Name
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Last Price
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Net Assets
|
Expense Ratio
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YTD Return
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100.94 | 4.238B | 0.10% |
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| 95.40 | 925.306M | 0.76% |
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| 105.74 | 925.306M | 0.76% |
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| 98.69 | 925.306M | 0.76% |
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| 100.04 | 925.306M | 0.76% |
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Basic Materials Research
Discover the Latest Analyst and Technical Research for This Sector
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Analyst Report: Lithium Americas Corp.
Lithium Americas is a pure-play lithium producer. The firm owns one resource, Thacker Pass, that is located in northwest Nevada. Thacker Pass recently began construction and is expected to begin production in the mid to late 2020s. Thacker Pass is one of the largest known lithium resources in the world. The project would be the first clay-based asset to enter production, and we estimate it will be in bottom half of the global cost curve. Management plans to develop Thacker Pass into a fully integrated lithium production site, with downstream refining capabilities on site, and will sell into the lithium chemical market.
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Analyst Report: Arcadium Lithium plc
Arcadium Lithium is a pure-play lithium producer that was formed in the Allkem-Livent merger in January 2024. Arcadium should benefit from increased lithium demand via higher electric vehicle adoption, as lithium is a key component of EV batteries. The company's low-cost lithium carbonate production comes from two brine resources in Argentina. Arcadium also produces spodumene, a hard rock lithium upstream concentrate, from a mine in Australia and operates downstream lithium hydroxide conversion plants in the United States and China.
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Analyst Report: Lithium Americas (Argentina) Corp.
Lithium Argentina is a pure-play lithium producer. The company owns two neighboring lithium brine resources in northwest Argentina: Cauchari-Olaroz and Pastos Grandes. Cauchari-Olaroz entered production in 2023, while Pastos Grandes is still in development. Lithium Argentina plans for both resources to be fully integrated with onside downstream processing capabilities and will sell into the lithium chemical market.
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Analyst Report: Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A.
Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile is a Chilean commodities producer with significant operations in lithium (primarily used in batteries for electric vehicles and energy storage systems), specialty and standard potassium fertilizers, iodine (primarily used in X-ray contrast media), and solar salts. The company extracts these materials through its high-quality salt brine deposits and caliche ore. SQM is also developing a hard rock lithium project in Australia and is growing its lithium refining assets in China.
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