CF Industries Holdings Inc (CF): Today's Featured Chemicals Winner
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) pushed the Chemicals industry higher today making it today's featured chemicals winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 1.6%. By the end of trading, CF Industries Holdings rose $21.30 (11.8%) to $202.30 on heavy volume. Throughout the day, 5,646,828 shares of CF Industries Holdings exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 906,600 shares. The stock ranged in a price between $179.31-$202.77 after having opened the day at $180.36 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $181.00. Other companies within the Chemicals industry that increased today were:
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), up 96.9%,
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), up 11.6% and
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), up 6.3%.
CF Industries Holdings, Inc. manufactures and distributes nitrogen and phosphate fertilizer products worldwide. It operates in two segments, Nitrogen and Phosphate. CF Industries Holdings has a market cap of $10.7 billion and is part of the basic materials sector. Shares are down 11.3% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are 8 analysts that rate CF Industries Holdings a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and 6 rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates
CF Industries Holdings
as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, attractive valuation levels, expanding profit margins, good cash flow from operations and increase in net income. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had lackluster performance in the stock itself.
- You can view the full CF Industries Holdings Ratings Report.
On the negative front,
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