Top Fertilizer Stocks Worth Watching – April 25th

by · The Markets Daily

Union Pacific, CSX, and Norfolk Southern are the three Fertilizer stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. Error: Response status code does not indicate success: 429 (Too Many Requests). These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Fertilizer stocks within the last several days.

Union Pacific (UNP)

Union Pacific Corporation, through its subsidiary, Union Pacific Railroad Company, operates in the railroad business in the United States. The company offers transportation services for grain and grain products, fertilizers, food and refrigerated products, and coal and renewables to grain processors, animal feeders, ethanol producers, renewable biofuel producers, and other agricultural users; and construction products, industrial chemicals, plastics, forest products, specialized products, metals and ores, petroleum, liquid petroleum gases, soda ash, and sand, as well as finished automobiles, automotive parts, and merchandise in intermodal containers.

Shares of UNP stock traded down $2.91 during trading hours on Friday, reaching $212.54. The company had a trading volume of 1,080,997 shares, compared to its average volume of 2,560,604. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.76, a current ratio of 0.77 and a quick ratio of 0.62. Union Pacific has a 1-year low of $204.66 and a 1-year high of $258.07. The company has a 50 day moving average of $232.43 and a 200 day moving average of $235.84. The firm has a market cap of $127.38 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 19.17, a P/E/G ratio of 2.15 and a beta of 1.06.

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CSX (CSX)

CSX Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides rail-based freight transportation services. The company offers rail services; and transportation of intermodal containers and trailers, as well as other transportation services, such as rail-to-truck transfers and bulk commodity operations. It also transports chemicals, agricultural and food products, minerals, automotive, forest products, fertilizers, and metals and equipment; and coal, coke, and iron ore to electricity-generating power plants, steel manufacturers, and industrial plants, as well as exports coal to deep-water port facilities.

NASDAQ:CSX traded down $0.26 during mid-day trading on Friday, hitting $27.88. The company had a trading volume of 4,544,749 shares, compared to its average volume of 12,654,646. The firm has a market cap of $52.38 billion, a P/E ratio of 15.58, a P/E/G ratio of 1.92 and a beta of 1.23. CSX has a fifty-two week low of $26.22 and a fifty-two week high of $37.10. The business’s fifty day moving average is $29.63 and its two-hundred day moving average is $32.33. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.43, a quick ratio of 1.23 and a current ratio of 0.86.

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Norfolk Southern (NSC)

Norfolk Southern Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the rail transportation of raw materials, intermediate products, and finished goods in the United States. The company transports agriculture, forest, and consumer products comprising soybeans, wheat, corn, fertilizers, livestock and poultry feed, food products, food oils, flour, sweeteners, ethanol, lumber and wood products, pulp board and paper products, wood fibers, wood pulp, beverages, and canned goods; chemicals consist of sulfur and related chemicals, petroleum products comprising crude oil, chlorine and bleaching compounds, plastics, rubber, industrial chemicals, chemical wastes, sand, and natural gas liquids; metals and construction materials, such as steel, aluminum products, machinery, scrap metals, cement, aggregates, minerals, clay, transportation equipment, and military-related products; and automotive, including finished motor vehicles and automotive parts, as well as coal.

Norfolk Southern stock traded down $3.87 during midday trading on Friday, hitting $222.82. 455,239 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 1,254,609. Norfolk Southern has a 52 week low of $201.63 and a 52 week high of $277.60. The company has a quick ratio of 0.82, a current ratio of 0.90 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.16. The stock has a market capitalization of $54.94 billion, a PE ratio of 19.27, a P/E/G ratio of 2.31 and a beta of 1.30. The company has a fifty day simple moving average of $231.08 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $245.08.

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