Two factors often determine stock prices in the long run: earnings and interest rates. Investors can't control the latter, ...

Two factors often determine stock prices in the long run: earnings and interest rates. Investors can't control the latter, but they can focus on a company's earnings results every quarter. We know ...

The Basic Materials group has plenty of great stocks, but investors should always be looking for companies that are outperforming their peers. Allegheny Technologies (ATI) is a stock that can ...

The Morningstar US Basic Materials Index vastly underperformed the market by nearly 28 percentage points in the fourth quarter of 2024. In agriculture and chemicals, we attribute the underperformance ...

We recently compiled a list of the 12 Best Basic Materials Stocks to Buy According to Analysts. In this article, we are going to take a look at where Westlake Corporation (NYSE:WLK) stands against the ...

We recently compiled a list of the 12 Best Basic Materials Stocks to Buy According to Analysts. In this article, we are going to take a look at where Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (NYSE:FCX) stands against ...

Earnings are arguably the most important single number on a company's quarterly financial report. Wall Street clearly dives into all of the other metrics and management's input, but the EPS figure ...