Mosaic Co (MOS): Today's Featured Chemicals Winner

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Mosaic (MOS) pushed the Chemicals industry higher today making it today's featured chemicals winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.6%. By the end of trading, Mosaic rose 89 cents (1.6%) to $55.34 on average volume. Throughout the day, 3.9 million shares of Mosaic exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of four million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $55.12-$55.83 after having opened the day at $55.43 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $54.45. Other companies within the Chemicals industry that increased today were: Pure Bioscience (PURE), up 24.6%, Renewable Energy Group (REGI), up 5.3%, Flexible Solutions International (FSI), up 4.8%, and Senomyx (SNMX), up 4.8%.

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The Mosaic Company produces and markets concentrated phosphate and potash crop nutrients for the agriculture industry worldwide. Mosaic has a market cap of $16.17 billion and is part of the basic materials sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 12.6, below the average chemicals industry P/E ratio of 12.9 and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 8% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are 13 analysts that rate Mosaic a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and six rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Mosaic as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, expanding profit margins and increase in stock price during the past year. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income.

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