Stock sector
Basic Materials Stocks
Basic materials companies discover, develop and process the raw materials that other industries depend on: chemicals, metals and minerals, steel, aluminum, gold and silver, timber, paper and building materials such as cement.
235 basic materials sector companies listed below
Download list in Excel Industries in this sectorDemand for these products follows industrial production and construction activity, and many of the companies sell commodities whose prices are set by world markets, so earnings in this sector tend to rise and fall with the economic cycle and commodity prices.
The table lists every company in the sector alphabetically. Click a company name for its stock report and quote.
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Industries in the basic materials sector
Narrower industry groups, each with company profiles:
- Chemicals: Agricultural Chemicals
- Chemicals: Major Diversified
- Chemicals: Specialty Chemicals
- Chemicals: Synthetics
- Metals and Mining: Aluminum
- Metals and Mining: Copper
- Metals and Mining: Gold
- Metals and Mining: Industrial Metals & Minerals
- Metals and Mining: Nonmetallic Mineral Mining
- Metals and Mining: Silver
- Metals and Mining: Steel and Iron
- Construction: Cement
- Construction: General Building Materials
- Construction: Lumber, Wood Production
- Consumer Non-Durables: Paper & Paper Products