Best Fertilizer Stocks To Watch Now - April 17th
Union Pacific, CSX, Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, Norfolk Southern, and CF Industries are the five Fertilizer stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. Fertilizer stocks refer to the inventory or supply of various fertilizers maintained by manufacturers, distributors, or retailers for agricultural use. These stocks ensure that there is an adequate supply of essential nutrients—whether chemical or organic—to meet the seasonal demands of crop production and maintain stable market operations. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Fertilizer stocks within the last several days.
Union Pacific Corporation, through its subsidiary, Union Pacific Railroad Company, operates in the railroad business in the United States. The company offers transportation services for grain and grain products, fertilizers, food and refrigerated products, and coal and renewables to grain processors, animal feeders, ethanol producers, renewable biofuel producers, and other agricultural users; and construction products, industrial chemicals, plastics, forest products, specialized products, metals and ores, petroleum, liquid petroleum gases, soda ash, and sand, as well as finished automobiles, automotive parts, and merchandise in intermodal containers.
Union Pacific stock traded up $4.32 during mid-day trading on Thursday, reaching $220.92. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 1,422,426 shares, compared to its average volume of 2,525,143. The business has a 50 day moving average price of $236.05 and a 200-day moving average price of $236.83. The firm has a market cap of $132.40 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 19.94, a PEG ratio of 2.15 and a beta of 1.06. The company has a current ratio of 0.77, a quick ratio of 0.62 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.76. Union Pacific has a twelve month low of $204.66 and a twelve month high of $258.07.
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CSX Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides rail-based freight transportation services. The company offers rail services; and transportation of intermodal containers and trailers, as well as other transportation services, such as rail-to-truck transfers and bulk commodity operations. It also transports chemicals, agricultural and food products, minerals, automotive, forest products, fertilizers, and metals and equipment; and coal, coke, and iron ore to electricity-generating power plants, steel manufacturers, and industrial plants, as well as exports coal to deep-water port facilities.
NASDAQ CSX traded up $0.31 on Thursday, reaching $27.66. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 10,880,677 shares, compared to its average volume of 12,731,580. The firm’s 50 day moving average is $30.29 and its two-hundred day moving average is $32.60. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.43, a quick ratio of 1.23 and a current ratio of 0.86. The stock has a market cap of $52.12 billion, a PE ratio of 15.47, a PEG ratio of 1.92 and a beta of 1.23. CSX has a twelve month low of $26.22 and a twelve month high of $37.10.
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Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras explores, produces, and sells oil and gas in Brazil and internationally. The company operates through three segments: Exploration and Production; Refining, Transportation and Marketing; and Gas and Power. The Exploration and Production segment explores, develops, and produces crude oil, natural gas liquids, and natural gas primarily for supplies to the domestic refineries.
Shares of Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras stock traded up $0.49 during midday trading on Thursday, reaching $11.71. 19,004,981 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 17,263,239. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.65, a quick ratio of 0.71 and a current ratio of 0.94. The company’s 50 day simple moving average is $13.41 and its 200 day simple moving average is $13.72. The company has a market cap of $75.43 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 4.58, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.18 and a beta of 0.94. Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras has a 52 week low of $11.03 and a 52 week high of $17.44.
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Norfolk Southern Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the rail transportation of raw materials, intermediate products, and finished goods in the United States. The company transports agriculture, forest, and consumer products comprising soybeans, wheat, corn, fertilizers, livestock and poultry feed, food products, food oils, flour, sweeteners, ethanol, lumber and wood products, pulp board and paper products, wood fibers, wood pulp, beverages, and canned goods; chemicals consist of sulfur and related chemicals, petroleum products comprising crude oil, chlorine and bleaching compounds, plastics, rubber, industrial chemicals, chemical wastes, sand, and natural gas liquids; metals and construction materials, such as steel, aluminum products, machinery, scrap metals, cement, aggregates, minerals, clay, transportation equipment, and military-related products; and automotive, including finished motor vehicles and automotive parts, as well as coal.
NSC stock traded up $5.59 during trading on Thursday, hitting $219.62. 557,361 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 1,246,796. The stock has a market cap of $54.15 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 19.03, a P/E/G ratio of 2.31 and a beta of 1.30. The company has a current ratio of 0.90, a quick ratio of 0.82 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.16. The company has a 50 day simple moving average of $235.19 and a 200 day simple moving average of $246.13. Norfolk Southern has a one year low of $201.63 and a one year high of $277.60.
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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.
Shares of NYSE CF traded up $1.09 during mid-day trading on Thursday, reaching $75.19. 1,008,549 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 2,099,744. The company has a current ratio of 3.08, a quick ratio of 2.52 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.39. CF Industries has a twelve month low of $67.34 and a twelve month high of $98.25. The business has a fifty day simple moving average of $77.16 and a 200 day simple moving average of $84.17. The firm has a market capitalization of $12.75 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 11.12, a PEG ratio of 0.37 and a beta of 0.84.
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