Fertilizer Stocks To Consider – August 18th

CSX, Union Pacific, and Norfolk Southern are the three Fertilizer stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. Fertilizer stocks are the quantities of fertilizer materials—such as nitrogen, phosphorus or potassium compounds—held in storage by manufacturers, distributors or end-users at any given time. Keeping adequate stocks helps ensure a reliable supply for crop nutrition, prevents shortages during peak planting periods and supports stable market pricing. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Fertilizer stocks within the last several days.

CSX (CSX)

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.

Shares of CSX stock traded down $0.32 on Monday, reaching $36.01. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 10,528,135 shares, compared to its average volume of 16,061,893. The company has a market capitalization of $67.12 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 22.22, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.71 and a beta of 1.25. The stock’s fifty day simple moving average is $33.98 and its 200-day simple moving average is $31.55. CSX has a 1 year low of $26.22 and a 1 year high of $37.10. The company has a current ratio of 0.77, a quick ratio of 0.63 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.50.

Union Pacific (UNP)

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.

Shares of NYSE:UNP traded down $0.17 on Monday, hitting $220.61. 1,311,145 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 3,337,298. The stock has a market capitalization of $130.83 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 19.16, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.14 and a beta of 1.05. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.86, a current ratio of 0.65 and a quick ratio of 0.53. Union Pacific has a 12 month low of $204.66 and a 12 month high of $258.07. The business’s 50 day simple moving average is $227.06 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $229.29.

Norfolk Southern (NSC)

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.

Shares of Norfolk Southern stock traded down $0.10 during trading on Monday, hitting $280.64. 562,690 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 1,552,526. The firm has a market cap of $63.04 billion, a P/E ratio of 18.95, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.49 and a beta of 1.31. The company has a current ratio of 0.79, a quick ratio of 0.71 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.11. Norfolk Southern has a 52-week low of $201.63 and a 52-week high of $288.11. The stock’s fifty day simple moving average is $266.84 and its 200 day simple moving average is $246.60.