Basic Materials Stocks: 139 U.S.-Listed Companies by Market Cap
EquiReason covers 139 U.S.-listed companies in the Basic Materials sector, with a combined market cap of $1.60T. The largest by market cap: Linde plc (LIN, $234.6B), Southern Copper Corporation (SCCO, $154.4B), Newmont Corporation (NEM, $113.1B), Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (FCX, $93.6B), The Sherwin-Williams Company (SHW, $81.8B).
Sector and industry classification and market cap at the latest close: EquiReason company data · financial statements on each company's page come from its SEC filings
Industries in Basic Materials
Specialty Chemicals (43) · Gold (18) · Chemicals (16) · Other Industrial Metals & Mining (15) · Building Materials (10) · Steel (8) · Agricultural Inputs (7) · Coking Coal (5) · Aluminum (4) · Other Precious Metals & Mining (4) · Copper (3) · Lumber & Wood Production (3) · Paper & Paper Products (3)
Companies by market cap
| # | Company | Industry | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LIN Linde plc | Specialty Chemicals | $234.6B |
| 2 | SCCO Southern Copper Corporation | Copper | $154.4B |
| 3 | NEM Newmont Corporation | Gold | $113.1B |
| 4 | FCX Freeport-McMoRan Inc. | Copper | $93.6B |
| 5 | SHW The Sherwin-Williams Company | Specialty Chemicals | $81.8B |
| 6 | ECL Ecolab Inc. | Specialty Chemicals | $80.9B |
| 7 | APD Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. | Specialty Chemicals | $68.4B |
| 8 | NUE Nucor Corporation | Steel | $58.6B |
| 9 | CRH CRH plc | Building Materials | $56.5B |
| 10 | AU AngloGold Ashanti plc | Gold | $42.2B |
| 11 | STLD Steel Dynamics, Inc. | Steel | $34.3B |
| 12 | VMC Vulcan Materials Company | Building Materials | $33.9B |
| 13 | MLM Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. | Building Materials | $30.5B |
| 14 | PPG PPG Industries, Inc. | Specialty Chemicals | $24.6B |
| 15 | IFF International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. | Specialty Chemicals | $24.0B |
| 16 | DOW Dow Inc. | Chemicals | $23.6B |
| 17 | AMRZ Amrize Ltd | Building Materials | $21.6B |
| 18 | LYB LyondellBasell Industries N.V. | Specialty Chemicals | $21.5B |
| 19 | RS Reliance, Inc. | Steel | $21.2B |
| 20 | RGLD Royal Gold, Inc. | Gold | $19.3B |
| 21 | DD DuPont de Nemours, Inc. | Specialty Chemicals | $18.4B |
| 22 | CF CF Industries Holdings, Inc. | Agricultural Inputs | $18.3B |
| 23 | JHX James Hardie Industries plc | Building Materials | $15.2B |
| 24 | CDE Coeur Mining, Inc. | Gold | $13.8B |
| 25 | RPM RPM International Inc. | Specialty Chemicals | $12.6B |
| 26 | ALB Albemarle Corporation | Specialty Chemicals | $11.1B |
| 27 | AA Alcoa Corporation | Aluminum | $10.0B |
| 28 | SOLS Solstice Advanced Materials, Inc. | Specialty Chemicals | $9.4B |
| 29 | HL Hecla Mining Company | Other Precious Metals & Mining | $9.3B |
| 30 | CTVA Corteva, Inc. | Agricultural Inputs | $8.3B |
| 31 | WLK Westlake Corporation | Specialty Chemicals | $8.3B |
| 32 | ESI Element Solutions Inc | Specialty Chemicals | $8.1B |
| 33 | NEU NewMarket Corporation | Specialty Chemicals | $8.0B |
| 34 | CLF Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. | Steel | $7.9B |
| 35 | SSD Simpson Manufacturing Co., Inc. | Lumber & Wood Production | $7.6B |
| 36 | EMN Eastman Chemical Company | Specialty Chemicals | $7.4B |
| 37 | AXTA Axalta Coating Systems Ltd. | Specialty Chemicals | $7.3B |
| 38 | MP MP Materials Corp. | Other Industrial Metals & Mining | $6.8B |
| 39 | AUGO Aura Minerals Inc. | Gold | $6.5B |
| 40 | SSRM SSR Mining Inc. | Gold | $5.8B |
| 41 | MOS The Mosaic Company | Agricultural Inputs | $5.7B |
| 42 | SXT Sensient Technologies Corporation | Specialty Chemicals | $5.6B |
| 43 | BCPC Balchem Corporation | Specialty Chemicals | $5.6B |
| 44 | EXP Eagle Materials Inc. | Building Materials | $5.4B |
| 45 | CE Celanese Corporation | Chemicals | $5.2B |
| 46 | MTRN Materion Corporation | Other Industrial Metals & Mining | $4.6B |
| 47 | PRM Perimeter Solutions, Inc. | Specialty Chemicals | $4.6B |
| 48 | HCC Warrior Met Coal, Inc. | Coking Coal | $4.5B |
| 49 | UFPI UFP Industries, Inc. | Lumber & Wood Production | $4.5B |
| 50 | CLMT Calumet, Inc. | Specialty Chemicals | $4.3B |
| 51 | CBT Cabot Corporation | Specialty Chemicals | $3.8B |
| 52 | AVNT Avient Corporation | Specialty Chemicals | $3.8B |
| 53 | SMG The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company | Agricultural Inputs | $3.5B |
| 54 | ASH Ashland Inc. | Specialty Chemicals | $3.3B |
| 55 | USLM United States Lime & Minerals, Inc. | Building Materials | $3.2B |
| 56 | CSTM Constellium SE | Aluminum | $3.1B |
| 57 | CENX Century Aluminum Company | Aluminum | $3.1B |
| 58 | KNF Knife River Corporation | Building Materials | $3.0B |
| 59 | WDFC WD-40 Company | Specialty Chemicals | $2.9B |
| 60 | HWKN Hawkins, Inc. | Specialty Chemicals | $2.8B |
| 61 | BCC Boise Cascade Company | Lumber & Wood Production | $2.7B |
| 62 | KWR Quaker Chemical Corporation | Specialty Chemicals | $2.7B |
| 63 | FUL H.B. Fuller Company | Specialty Chemicals | $2.7B |
| 64 | NG NovaGold Resources Inc. | Gold | $2.6B |
| 65 | TTAM Titan America SA | Building Materials | $2.5B |
| 66 | IOSP Innospec Inc. | Specialty Chemicals | $2.4B |
| 67 | NGVT Ingevity Corporation | Specialty Chemicals | $2.4B |
| 68 | ALM Almonty Industries Inc. | Other Industrial Metals & Mining | $2.3B |
| 69 | USAR USA Rare Earth, Inc. | Other Industrial Metals & Mining | $2.3B |
| 70 | WS Worthington Steel, Inc. | Steel | $2.1B |
| 71 | AMR Alpha Metallurgical Resources, Inc. | Coking Coal | $2.1B |
| 72 | PPTA Perpetua Resources Corp. | Other Precious Metals & Mining | $2.1B |
| 73 | MTX Minerals Technologies Inc. | Specialty Chemicals | $2.0B |
| 74 | CC The Chemours Company | Specialty Chemicals | $1.9B |
| 75 | STDN Standard Nuclear, Inc. | Chemicals | $1.9B |
| 76 | SSMR Sunshine Silver Mining & Refining Co | Gold | $1.9B |
| 77 | SIND Sinda Ltd. | Gold | $1.9B |
| 78 | OLN Olin Corporation | Chemicals | $1.8B |
| 79 | KALU Kaiser Aluminum Corporation | Aluminum | $1.8B |
| 80 | TGLS Tecnoglass Inc. | Building Materials | $1.7B |
| 81 | HUN Huntsman Corporation | Chemicals | $1.5B |
| 82 | SCL Stepan Company | Specialty Chemicals | $1.5B |
| 83 | HYMC Hycroft Mining Holding Corporation | Gold | $1.4B |
| 84 | REX REX American Resources Corporation | Chemicals | $1.3B |
| 85 | SLVM Sylvamo Corporation | Paper & Paper Products | $1.3B |
| 86 | IAUX i-80 Gold Corp. | Gold | $1.3B |
| 87 | IE Ivanhoe Electric Inc. | Copper | $1.3B |
| 88 | ODC Oil-Dri Corporation of America | Specialty Chemicals | $1.1B |
| 89 | TMC TMC the metals Co Inc. | Other Industrial Metals & Mining | $1.1B |
| 90 | ECVT Ecovyst Inc. | Specialty Chemicals | $1.1B |
| 91 | ELE Elemental Royalty Corporation | Other Precious Metals & Mining | $1.0B |
| 92 | GPRE Green Plains Inc. | Chemicals | $979.9M |
| 93 | NWPX NWPX Infrastructure, Inc. | Steel | $937.9M |
| 94 | CRML Critical Metals Corp. | Other Industrial Metals & Mining | $934.9M |
| 95 | KRO KRONOS WORLDWIDE INC | Chemicals | $900.1M |
| 96 | MUX McEwen Inc. | Other Precious Metals & Mining | $897.7M |
| 97 | CMP Compass Minerals International, Inc. | Other Industrial Metals & Mining | $892.9M |
| 98 | FTK FLOTEK INDUSTRIES INC/CN/ | Specialty Chemicals | $865.7M |
| 99 | SXC SunCoke Energy, Inc. | Coking Coal | $849.6M |
| 100 | MTUS Metallus Inc. | Steel | $846.0M |
| 101 | KOP Koppers Holdings Inc. | Specialty Chemicals | $759.9M |
| 102 | LAC LITHIUM AMERICAS CORP. | Other Industrial Metals & Mining | $751.5M |
| 103 | LXU LSB Industries, Inc. | Chemicals | $712.1M |
| 104 | DC Dakota Gold Corp. | Gold | $707.1M |
| 105 | MATV Mativ Holdings, Inc. | Specialty Chemicals | $665.6M |
| 106 | FMC FMC Corporation | Agricultural Inputs | $632.4M |
| 107 | LWLG Lightwave Logic, Inc. | Specialty Chemicals | $618.2M |
| 108 | TROX Tronox Holdings plc | Chemicals | $552.6M |
| 109 | THM INTERNATIONAL TOWER HILL MINES LTD | Other Industrial Metals & Mining | $510.2M |
| 110 | ALOY REalloys Inc. | Other Industrial Metals & Mining | $485.7M |
| 111 | CTGO Contango Silver & Gold Inc. | Gold | $483.2M |
| 112 | METC Ramaco Resources, Inc. | Coking Coal | $464.0M |
| 113 | UAMY United States Antimony Corporation | Other Industrial Metals & Mining | $458.0M |
| 114 | RYAM Rayonier Advanced Materials Inc. | Chemicals | $453.2M |
| 115 | NB NioCorp Developments Ltd. | Other Industrial Metals & Mining | $430.3M |
| 116 | MAGN Magnera Corp | Paper & Paper Products | $427.1M |
| 117 | ASIX AdvanSix Inc. | Chemicals | $424.2M |
| 118 | IPI Intrepid Potash, Inc. | Agricultural Inputs | $420.3M |
| 119 | CMCL Caledonia Mining Corporation Plc | Gold | $410.4M |
| 120 | VHI VALHI INC /DE/ | Chemicals | $405.6M |
| 121 | VGZ VISTA GOLD CORP | Gold | $385.4M |
| 122 | TMQ Trilogy Metals Inc. | Gold | $373.6M |
| 123 | NL NLI HOLDINGS, INC. | Chemicals | $328.6M |
| 124 | URG UR-ENERGY INC | Gold | $322.6M |
| 125 | CLW Clearwater Paper Corporation | Paper & Paper Products | $311.1M |
| 126 | OEC Orion S.A. | Specialty Chemicals | $308.0M |
| 127 | IDR Idaho Strategic Resources, Inc. | Gold | $303.5M |
| 128 | MNTK Montauk Renewables, Inc. | Specialty Chemicals | $303.2M |
| 129 | FRD FRIEDMAN INDUSTRIES INC | Steel | $301.7M |
| 130 | ASPI ASP Isotopes Inc. | Chemicals | $298.2M |
| 131 | LZM Lifezone Metals Limited | Other Industrial Metals & Mining | $296.7M |
| 132 | GEVO Gevo, Inc. | Specialty Chemicals | $286.8M |
| 133 | ALTO Alto Ingredients, Inc. | Chemicals | $280.0M |
| 134 | NC NACCO INDUSTRIES INC | Coking Coal | $260.5M |
| 135 | HDSN Hudson Technologies, Inc. | Specialty Chemicals | $226.0M |
| 136 | CMT Core Molding Technologies, Inc. | Specialty Chemicals | $204.7M |
| 137 | NUCL Eagle Nuclear Energy Corp. | Other Industrial Metals & Mining | $141.9M |
| 138 | USGO U.S. GoldMining Inc. | Other Industrial Metals & Mining | $63.9M |
| 139 | AVD American Vanguard Corporation | Agricultural Inputs | $30.4M |
Questions
- What are the largest basic materials stocks?
- By market cap: Linde plc (LIN) $234.6B, Southern Copper Corporation (SCCO) $154.4B, Newmont Corporation (NEM) $113.1B, Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (FCX) $93.6B, The Sherwin-Williams Company (SHW) $81.8B, Ecolab Inc. (ECL) $80.9B, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (APD) $68.4B, Nucor Corporation (NUE) $58.6B, CRH plc (CRH) $56.5B, AngloGold Ashanti plc (AU) $42.2B.
- How many basic materials companies are listed in the U.S.?
- EquiReason covers 139 U.S.-listed companies in this sector; the full list is above.
How these figures are read: methodology · EquiReason.