The best materials stocks right now, ranked.
Of the 102 investable materials stocks we score, these 25 rank highest on Ticker Nerd's factor model today — all nine factor families at once, not one metric. Every stock in P123's Non-Energy Materials sector, the taxonomy the rank is built on.
Every score is a percentile across the whole US universe we cover — a 92 beats 92% of it. How the model was built and blind-tested is on the methodology page; what each factor means is on the factor glossary.
| Ticker | Company | Mkt cap | Rank | 1w rank Δ | Revisions | Value | Momentum | Quality | Accruals | Issuance | Growth | Volatility | Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ingevity Corp. Specialty Chemicals | $2.4B | 99.0 | 0.0 | 93.2 | 87.2 | 76.9 | 92.3 | 98.0 | 99.0 | 37.8 | 58.5 | 32.8 | |
Constellium SE Aluminum | $3.5B | 97.9 | +0.2 | 88.7 | 99.5 | 81.4 | 92.5 | 25.8 | 97.6 | 98.7 | 29.8 | 27.9 | |
Crown Holdings, Inc. Packaging & Containers | $12.6B | 97.5 | −0.3 | 95.1 | 88.2 | 65.2 | 90.5 | 74.0 | 97.4 | 72.3 | 43.2 | 13.3 | |
Griffon Corp. Building Products & Equipment | $4.3B | 97.4 | +0.5 | 89.4 | 77.7 | 87.8 | 92.4 | 77.3 | 99.6 | 39.1 | 62.6 | 25.2 | |
Kaiser Aluminum Corp. Aluminum | $2.5B | 96.4 | +0.3 | 94.5 | 91.2 | 91.7 | 82.6 | 23.3 | 76.3 | 97.8 | 31.3 | 32.8 | |
Avient Corp. Specialty Chemicals | $3.8B | 95.1 | −0.8 | 98.7 | 82.1 | 69.0 | 72.2 | 58.8 | 85.7 | 74.0 | 47.5 | 27.1 | |
Reliance, Inc. Steel | $20.5B | 94.1 | +0.8 | 99.5 | 77.8 | 86.4 | 71.9 | 33.2 | 66.1 | 88.6 | 98.5 | 10.0 | |
Nucor Corp. Steel | $59.2B | 93.7 | 0.0 | 96.0 | 72.6 | 96.9 | 60.8 | 40.5 | 72.8 | 95.7 | 84.8 | 4.5 | |
Rogers Corp. Electronic Components | $2.4B | 92.7 | −2.0 | 82.8 | 49.4 | 85.9 | 62.6 | 78.8 | 85.6 | 85.0 | 38.6 | 33.4 | |
Balchem Corp. Specialty Chemicals | $5.4B | 92.4 | −0.7 | 95.0 | 47.5 | 57.5 | 94.2 | 55.0 | 93.0 | 60.8 | 98.2 | 22.3 | |
Mueller Industries, Inc. Metal Fabrication | $13.4B | 92.2 | 0.0 | 83.9 | 82.2 | 81.8 | 89.4 | 23.9 | 80.4 | 78.5 | 90.6 | 12.6 | |
Newmont Corp. Gold | $135.5B | 92.0 | +1.9 | 45.1 | 96.6 | 87.2 | 97.5 | 64.9 | 87.8 | 65.7 | 99.3 | 1.9 | |
Anglogold Ashanti Plc Gold | $50.8B | 91.3 | +3.0 | 40.3 | 98.5 | 83.7 | 91.5 | 69.2 | 79.3 | 94.1 | 67.6 | 5.1 | |
Quaker Houghton Specialty Chemicals | $2.7B | 90.9 | −1.8 | 94.2 | 65.4 | 69.4 | 66.5 | 45.5 | 92.4 | 82.5 | 39.6 | 31.8 | |
The Timken Co. Tools & Accessories | $8.1B | 89.4 | 0.0 | 81.7 | 75.9 | 78.2 | 63.8 | 64.2 | 90.2 | 59.4 | 71.4 | 17.5 | |
Hecla Mining Co. Other Precious Metals & Mining | $12.5B | 89.3 | −0.3 | 35.7 | 83.1 | 80.7 | 96.2 | 69.1 | 85.4 | 95.3 | 60.5 | 13.3 | |
Innospec, Inc. Specialty Chemicals | $2.3B | 88.9 | −1.7 | 90.5 | 81.1 | 59.3 | 72.4 | 36.2 | 79.9 | 62.0 | 89.0 | 33.9 | |
Kinross Gold Corp. Gold | $33.3B | 88.7 | +0.1 | 34.3 | 99.1 | 61.3 | 99.5 | 46.5 | 96.5 | 94.1 | 97.1 | 7.1 | |
Nutrien Ltd. Agricultural Inputs | $37.6B | 88.2 | +1.7 | 37.2 | 83.9 | 82.9 | 82.5 | 58.7 | 92.6 | 89.8 | 97.5 | 6.5 | |
Axalta Coating Systems Ltd. Specialty Chemicals | $7.1B | 88.0 | −1.8 | 77.2 | 83.7 | 66.5 | 89.0 | 71.0 | 96.3 | 26.3 | 67.2 | 18.8 | |
3M Co. Conglomerates | $87.5B | 87.6 | −0.5 | 92.1 | 37.0 | 66.1 | 92.7 | 77.0 | 94.8 | 52.2 | 75.9 | 3.1 | |
Simpson Manufacturing Co., Inc. Lumber & Wood Production | $7.2B | 87.4 | +2.4 | 73.6 | 71.5 | 62.4 | 82.8 | 63.0 | 90.8 | 60.0 | 77.6 | 18.7 | |
CF Industries Holdings, Inc. Agricultural Inputs | $21.4B | 87.3 | +2.0 | 35.3 | 94.7 | 85.0 | 97.6 | 45.4 | 72.3 | 95.5 | 89.8 | 9.7 | |
Cabot Corp. Specialty Chemicals | $4.2B | 87.2 | +0.3 | 81.2 | 95.8 | 66.7 | 89.9 | 67.9 | 68.1 | 23.4 | 77.5 | 25.6 | |
Ashland, Inc. Specialty Chemicals | $3.2B | 86.8 | −2.5 | 53.5 | 69.0 | 74.3 | 57.5 | 83.7 | 82.4 | 82.6 | 74.3 | 29.2 |
Today’s snapshot only — the list rotates as the scores move. Click any ticker for its full page: rank against every factor, analyst price targets, financials and news.
What these materials stocks look like up close.
Figures for the 25 listed names, from the same data behind their stock pages.
18 of the 25 names with analyst coverage this month carry a Buy-or-better majority.
Cheapest on trailing P/E: CSTM at 6.5×, CF at 9.7× and KGC at 10.7×.
Highest forward dividend yields: AU at 2.9%, NTR at 2.8% and AVNT at 2.7%.
Where we've written the stock up.
An analyst-style read on the business behind the score — published on the stock page.
This page is one list. Monday covers the whole market.
Computed off the Friday close and sent before the US open.
Market Radar reports the week’s largest rank changes across roughly 4,600 US stocks and the factor behind each one. The names above will rotate as the scores move — the Radar is how you hear what changed.
Questions people ask about materials stocks.
- What are the best materials stocks right now?
- As at 15 Sept 2026, the top-ranked materials stocks on Ticker Nerd's systematic factor model are Ingevity Corp. (NGVT), Constellium SE (CSTM), Crown Holdings, Inc. (CCK). The full top 25 is the table on this page, re-ranked every trading day. A rank is general information, not personal advice.
- How does Ticker Nerd pick the best materials stocks?
- Nobody picks them. A factor model scores roughly 4,600 US stocks every trading day on families like value, momentum, quality and growth, and this page is one fixed cut of that ranking. The research process behind the model — point-in-time data from 2005, locked test windows, logged rejections — is published on the methodology page.
- Are materials stocks a good investment?
- That depends on the price paid and on your circumstances — this page is general information, not advice. What the data says as at 15 Sept 2026: of the 25 listed names with analyst coverage this month, 18 carry a Buy-or-better majority, and every rank above is a percentile across roughly 4,600 US stocks.
The same model, other cuts.
Every list reads the one ranking — the stock screener index has the complete set.