Basic Materials
Live Price
Offline$105.70
+0.20% today
1Y Change
+14.89%
Window
Jun 30, 2025 → Jun 26, 2026
Coverage: 249 bars · Jun 30, 2025 → Jun 26, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
CF Industries Holdings Inc (CF) is a Basic Materials stock with a market cap of $19.67B and listed on NYSE. The stock last traded around $105.70 and up 14.9% across the available one-year price window (Jun 30, 2025 → Jun 26, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +19.3%, EPS growth of +33.0%, a dividend yield of 1.6%. What stands out right now is revenue +19.3%, EPS +33.0%, free cash flow +2.8% with operating margin 36.6% and ROIC 15.7%. The dividend is present but secondary, with a yield around 1.6%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at P/E 13.7 and price/sales 2.8. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a quality compounder than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines CF price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Basic Materials peers on this page.
Benchmark Edge
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
Relative Read
CF is 3.10 pts behind over the shared 1Y window.
CF had 16.62 pts deeper max drawdown than SPY.
CF beat SPY in 1 of 2 calendar years shown and trailed in 1.
CF
+14.89%
Normalized return
SPY
+17.99%
S&P 500
Excess Return
-3.10 pts
Relative to SPY
CF Max Drawdown
-25.75%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
-9.13%
Trailing 1Y
Uses the longest available daily history for CF and SPY.
| Year | CF | SPY | Excess | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | +31.91% | +6.71% | +25.20 pts | CF |
| 2025 | -16.38% | +11.19% | -27.57 pts | SPY |
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