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Basic Materials

#9 by market cap

Chemicals, 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 2.1% of daily volume.

Market cap

$1.832T

+0.68%

$12.258B · 1D

Sector weight

2.2%

of tracked market cap

Volume 24h

$13.495B

2.1% of market volume

Revenue TTM

$712.044B

Sum of constituents

Net income TTM

$59.761B

8.4% net margin

P/E (TTM)

30.3×

Market 30.7×

Dividend yield

1.5%

Market 1.3%

Employees

1M

Across 155 companies

Industry breakdown

Share of sector market cap · 14 industries

Specialty Chemicals$667.994B-0.51%
Gold$438.076B-10.65%
Copper$278.421B-3.32%
Building Materials$148.507B-7.35%
Steel$122.889B-1.02%
Chemicals$38.489B-4.40%
Agricultural Inputs$38.078B-58.55%
6 more industries$67.646B3.7%
View all 14 industries →

Concentration

Share of sector market cap by constituent

56.5%top 10
LIN12.4%
SCCO9.4%
NEM6.8%
Next 727.9%
Other 14543.5%

HHI index
450.5

Mega caps
1

Median cap
$2.436B

Valuation vs. market

Sector totals valued as one company; marker is the all-equities median

P/E (TTM): 30.3× · market 20.2×

P/S: 2.5× · market 2.7×

EV / EBITDA: 12.1× · market 13×

Operating margin: 16.8% · market 8.5%

Dividend yield: 1.5% · market 2.3%

Trading at a 1.1% P/E discount to the all-equities market.

Returns vs. market

Cap-weighted price return · spread in percentage points

PeriodSectorMarketSpread
1 day+0.68%+0.54%+0.14%
1 week-1.52%+2.05%-3.57%
1 month-7.45%+1.46%-8.92%
3 months-0.63%+3.30%-3.93%
Year to date+8.57%+13.25%-4.68%
1 year+13.75%+14.81%-1.06%

Constituents

155 equities

Linde plc

LIN · US

Specialty Chemicals$226.651B12.4%$489.95+1.57%+3.79%+4.61%$1.549B32×
Copper$172.465B9.4%$204.26-0.50%+0.80%-2.06%$214.13M30.5×
Gold$124.886B6.8%$116.39+0.49%+0.29%-8.42%$572.64M14.8×
Copper$104.269B5.7%$72.56-0.06%+0.83%-5.30%$665.99M38.2×
Specialty Chemicals$79.209B4.3%$321.16+0.85%-3.50%-1.51%$438.84M30.5×
Ecolab Inc.

ECL · US

Specialty Chemicals$78.722B4.3%$280.82+1.35%+0.21%+0.97%$331.89M37.2×
Gold$67.02B3.7%$40.72+1.80%-0.90%-7.66%$318.72M10.3×
Specialty Chemicals$62.575B3.4%$281+0.55%+0.81%-5.61%$226.72M-1,322.9×
Gold$62.506B3.4%$137.65+1.01%+1.50%-11.26%$205.66M34.7×
Steel$56.962B3.1%$251.07-0.14%+2.69%-2.08%$268.31M33.1×
Building Materials$55.669B3%$83.60+1.15%-0.18%-7.74%$370.23M14.6×
Gold$47.313B2.6%$93.55-0.98%+0.84%-13.24%$181.31M12.4×
Steel$34.402B1.9%$238.17-1.19%+3.38%-0.89%$207.89M25.1×
Building Materials$32.201B1.8%$248.85+1.34%+1.10%-3.66%$238.99M28.9×
Building Materials$29.365B1.6%$489.01+0.72%-0.36%-4.49%$321.37M12×
Gold$28.432B1.6%$23.81+0.98%-1.24%-21.03%$216.83M9.9×
Specialty Chemicals$23.679B1.3%$106.52+1.19%-0.46%-2.92%$143.59M15.1×
Specialty Chemicals$21.425B1.2%$83.92+0.79%-2.10%-1.99%$154.03M73.9×
Steel$20.497B1.1%$401.49-1.65%+2.54%+0.80%$80.27M22.9×
Dow Inc.

DOW · US

Chemicals$20.296B1.1%$28.16-1.23%+0.97%-4.77%$237.75M-7.1×
Gold$19.843B1.1%$234.35+0.30%-2.48%-10.34%$120.37M26.9×
Gold$19.352B1.1%$45.92+1.32%+0.33%-9.96%$103.37M15.3×
Specialty Chemicals$19.021B1%$58.93-0.49%+1.13%-8.76%$176.78M-23.8×
Specialty Chemicals$17.998B1%$133.28+1.98%+1.76%+1.49%$95.52M327.2×
Gold$17.66B1%$17.17+0.70%-3.92%-16.89%$431.57M20.8×
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