SECTOR PILLAR
Basic Materials Stocks 2026
Basic Materials cover miners, chemicals, paper and steel — capital-intensive cyclicals levered to commodity prices and global industrial demand. The sector tends to lead inflation cycles and lag during deflationary periods. Free cash flow per ton, cost-curve positioning and balance-sheet strength matter more than trailing P/E because commodity prices override accounting earnings on every cycle turn.
Stocks tracked
88
Avg P/E
29.3
Avg div yield
1.84%
Largest by mcap
Linde plc
LIN
Top 10 by market cap
What moves this sector
Mining, chemicals, paper, steel
All 88 Basic Materials stocks
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A
- Accsys Technologies (AXS.AS)
- Air Products and Chemicals, Inc (APD)
- Alamos Gold (AGI)
- Albemarle Corporation (ALB)
- Alcoa Corporation (AA)
- Alpha Metallurgical Resources, (AMR)
- AMAG Austria Metall (AMAG.VI)
- Americas Gold and Silver (USAS)
- Aris Water Solutions (ARIS)
- Ashland Inc. (ASH)
- Avient Corporation (AVNT)
- Axalta Coating Systems Ltd. (AXTA)
B
- Balchem Corporation (BCPC)
- BASF (BAS.DE)
- Boise Cascade, L.L.C. (BCC)
C
- Cabot Corporation (CBT)
- Celanese Corporation (CE)
- Century Aluminum Company (CENX)
- CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (CF)
- Chemours Company (The) (CC)
- Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. (CLF)
- Corbion (CRBN.AS)
- Core Molding Technologies (CMT)
- Corteva, Inc. (CTVA)
- CRH PLC (CRH)
D
- Dow Inc. (DOW)
- DuPont de Nemours, Inc. (DD)
E
- Eagle Materials Inc (EXP)
- Eastman Chemical Company (EMN)
- Ecolab Inc. (ECL)
- Element Solutions Inc. (ESI)
- Ence Energia y Celulosa (ENC.MC)
F
- FMC Corporation (FMC)
- Fortuna Silver Mines (FSM)
- Freeport-McMoRan, Inc. (FCX)
- Fury Gold Mines (FURY)
H
- H. B. Fuller Company (FUL)
- Hawkins, Inc. (HWKN)
- Hecla Mining Company (HL)
- Hycroft Mining (HYMC)
I
- IMCD Group (IMCD.AS)
- Ingevity Corporation (NGVT)
- Innospec Inc. (IOSP)
- International Flavors & Fragran (IFF)
K
- Kaiser Aluminum Corporation (KALU)
- Knife Riv Holding Co. (KNF)
- Koppers Holdings Inc. (KOP)
L
- Lanxess (LXS.DE)
- Linde plc (LIN)
- LyondellBasell Industries NV (LYB)
M
- Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. (MLM)
- Materion Corporation (MTRN)
- Metallus Inc. (MTUS)
- Minerals Technologies Inc. (MTX)
- Mosaic Company (The) (MOS)
- MP Materials (MP)
N
- NewMarket Corp (NEU)
- Newmont Corporation (NEM)
- Nucor (NUE)
O
- OCI Global (OCI.AS)
- Olin Corporation (OLN)
P
- PPG Industries, Inc. (PPG)
Q
- Quaker Houghton (KWR)
R
- Reliance, Inc. (RS)
- REX American Resources Corporat (REX)
- Royal Gold, Inc. (RGLD)
- RPM International Inc. (RPM)
S
- Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (The (SMG)
- Sensient Technologies Corporati (SXT)
- Sherwin-Williams Company (The) (SHW)
- Simpson Manufacturing Company, (SSD)
- Solstice Advanced Materials Inc (SOLS)
- Steel Dynamics, Inc. (STLD)
- Stepan Company (SCL)
- Sylvamo Corporation (SLVM)
U
- UFP Industries, Inc. (UFPI)
- US Lime and Minerals (USLM)
V
- Verbio (VBK.DE)
- voestalpine (VOE.VI)
- Vulcan Materials Company (Holdi (VMC)
W
- Wacker Chemie (WCH.DE)
- Warrior Met Coal, Inc. (HCC)
- WD-40 Company (WDFC)
- Western Copper and Gold (WRN)
- Westlake Corporation (WLK)
- Wienerberger (WIE.VI)
- Worthington Steel, Inc. (WS)