Equities / Sectors / Basic Materials
Basic Materials
#9 by market capChemicals, metals and mining, paper and building materials. 155 US-listed equities across 14 industries; the sector accounts for 2.2% of tracked equity market cap and 2.3% of daily volume.
Market cap
$1.785T
-2.93%
-$53.77B · 1D
Sector weight
2.2%
of tracked market cap
Volume 24h
$15.542B
2.3% of market volume
Revenue TTM
$712.044B
Sum of constituents
Net income TTM
$59.761B
8.4% net margin
P/E (TTM)
29.6×
Market 30.1×
Dividend yield
1.6%
Market 1.4%
Employees
1M
Across 155 companies
Industry breakdown
Share of sector market cap · 14 industries
Concentration
Share of sector market cap by constituent
HHI index
446.2
Mega caps
1
Median cap
$2.352B
Valuation vs. market
Sector totals valued as one company; marker is the all-equities median
Trading at a 1.8% P/E discount to the all-equities market.
Returns vs. market
Cap-weighted price return · spread in percentage points
| Period | Sector | Market | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 day | -2.93% | +0.11% | -3.04% |
| 1 week | -5.08% | -0.71% | -4.37% |
| 1 month | -8.84% | +0.10% | -8.93% |
| 3 months | -4.92% | +0.91% | -5.83% |
| Year to date | +5.81% | +11.07% | -5.27% |
| 1 year | +11.02% | +12.50% | -1.48% |
Constituents
155 equities · sorted by market cap
| # | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Linde plc LIN · US | Specialty Chemicals | $217.167B | 12.2% | $469.45 | -1.10% | +0.28% | -3.56% | $997.11M | 30.7× |
| 2 | Southern Copper Corporation SCCO · US | Copper | $168.21B | 9.4% | $199.22 | -1.69% | -1.17% | -1.19% | $193.46M | 29.7× |
| 3 | Newmont Corporation NEM · US | Gold | $123.041B | 6.9% | $114.67 | -0.58% | -5.47% | -6.49% | $643.76M | 14.6× |
| 4 | Freeport-McMoRan Inc. FCX · US | Copper | $99.555B | 5.6% | $69.28 | -1.03% | -3.89% | -4.40% | $834.87M | 36.4× |
| 5 | The Sherwin-Williams Company SHW · US | Specialty Chemicals | $79.116B | 4.4% | $320.78 | -0.77% | +0.12% | -2.78% | $521.94M | 30.4× |
| 6 | Ecolab Inc. ECL · US | Specialty Chemicals | $76.042B | 4.3% | $271.26 | -1.21% | -1.49% | -3.21% | $456.58M | 35.9× |
| 7 | Gold | $66B | 3.7% | $40.10 | -1.40% | -5.25% | -6.96% | $379.01M | 10.1× | |
| 8 | Air Products and Chemicals Inc. APD · US | Specialty Chemicals | $60.867B | 3.4% | $273.33 | -1.76% | -3.92% | -10.48% | $428.75M | -1,286.8× |
| 9 | Wheaton Precious Metals Corp. WPM · US | Gold | $60.586B | 3.4% | $133.42 | -0.22% | -7.27% | -7.94% | $252.75M | 33.7× |
| 10 | CRH plc Ordinary Shares CRH · US | Building Materials | $54.404B | 3% | $81.70 | -1.33% | -2.69% | -10.42% | $455.27M | 14.2× |
| 11 | Nucor Corp. NUE · US | Steel | $53.538B | 3% | $235.98 | +0.95% | -4.83% | -6.33% | $363.1M | 31.1× |
| 12 | AngloGold Ashanti plc AU · US | Gold | $47.641B | 2.7% | $94.20 | +0.27% | -4.36% | -12.88% | $162.77M | 12.5× |
| 13 | Steel Dynamics Inc. STLD · US | Steel | $32.669B | 1.8% | $226.17 | +2.06% | -3.84% | -3.38% | $241.07M | 23.8× |
| 14 | Vulcan Materials Co. VMC · US | Building Materials | $31.571B | 1.8% | $243.98 | -0.27% | +0.94% | -6.05% | $522.48M | 28.3× |
| 15 | Martin Marietta Materials Inc. MLM · US | Building Materials | $28.775B | 1.6% | $479.17 | -0.13% | -0.19% | -5.10% | $397.85M | 11.7× |
| 16 | Kinross Gold Corporation KGC · US | Gold | $28.73B | 1.6% | $24.06 | -0.08% | -1.47% | -18.25% | $161.28M | 10× |
| 17 | PPG Industries, Inc. PPG · US | Specialty Chemicals | $23.268B | 1.3% | $104.67 | +0.33% | -1.55% | -4.59% | $192.41M | 14.8× |
| 18 | Specialty Chemicals | $21.221B | 1.2% | $83.12 | -0.43% | -3.18% | -3.10% | $150.96M | 73.2× | |
| 19 | Reliance, Inc. RS · US | Steel | $20.066B | 1.1% | $393.04 | +2.16% | +1.89% | +0.75% | $104.55M | 22.5× |
| 20 | Dow Inc. DOW · US | Chemicals | $19.885B | 1.1% | $27.59 | +0.18% | -3.40% | -9.42% | $277.5M | -7× |
| 21 | Royal Gold, Inc. RGLD · US | Gold | $19.672B | 1.1% | $232.33 | -1.56% | -7.98% | -8.56% | $124.85M | 26.7× |
| 22 | Pan American Silver Corp. PAAS · US | Gold | $18.956B | 1.1% | $44.98 | -1.17% | -5.33% | -10.04% | $133.86M | 15× |
| 23 | LyondellBasell Industries N.V. LYB · US | Specialty Chemicals | $18.65B | 1% | $57.78 | +0.54% | -3.99% | -11.34% | $211.67M | -23.3× |
| 24 | Coeur Mining Inc. CDE · US | Gold | $18.061B | 1% | $17.56 | -0.23% | -7.29% | -13.07% | $525.84M | 21.2× |
| 25 | DuPont de Nemours, Inc. DD · US | Specialty Chemicals | $17.447B | 1% | $129.20 | -0.53% | -0.78% | -2.20% | $122.83M | 317.2× |