Specialty Chemicals
Companies that use base chemicals to produce value-added chemicals that are used in a variety of products. Includes companies that produce polishes, adhesives and sealants, explosives, printing ink, paint, carbon black, acids, repellants, and cleaning solutions.
Market Cap
704.085B
Industry Weight
41.14%
Companies
61
Employees
500,974
Specialty Chemicals S&P 500 ^GSPC
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DELL

Day Return

Industry
0.00%
S&P 500
0.48%

YTD Return

Industry
3.89%
S&P 500
10.00%

1-Year Return

Industry
13.94%
S&P 500
27.22%

3-Year Return

Industry
0.56%
S&P 500
27.58%

5-Year Return

Industry
49.05%
S&P 500
84.03%

Note: Industry performance is calculated based on the previous closing price of all industry constituents

Largest Companies in This Industry

Name
Last Price
1Y Target Est.
Market Weight
Market Cap
Day Change %
YTD Return
Avg. Analyst Rating
432.11 441.05 29.81% 207.722B -0.61% +5.21%
Buy
314.05 343.52 11.43% 79.627B -0.58% +0.69%
Buy
231.90 240.75 9.50% 66.224B +0.06% +16.91%
Hold
248.56 267.85 7.93% 55.256B -0.68% -9.22%
Buy
101.52 105.54 4.74% 33.057B +0.20% +6.77%
Hold
78.35 82.85 4.70% 32.758B -0.66% +1.85%
Hold
135.38 156.97 4.56% 31.747B -0.27% -9.48%
Buy
96.63 96.17 3.54% 24.675B +0.11% +19.34%
Hold
157.19 160.09 2.90% 20.21B +0.59% +12.31%
Hold
25.11 27.04 2.45% 17.056B +3.38% +9.99%
Buy

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Top Performing Companies

Name
Last Price
1Y Target Est.
YTD Return
7.92 10.38 +72.17%
17.67 20.00 +49.87%
9.85 11.92 +29.78%
12.54 9.67 +26.16%
102.22 106.40 +22.42%

High Growth Companies

Name
Last Price
Growth Estimate
YTD Return
17.67 +188.89% +49.87%
17.79 +28.75% +16.20%
231.90 +26.49% +16.91%
76.50 +26.22% +8.63%
102.22 +26.21% +22.42%

Specialty Chemicals Research

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  • Analyst Report: Albemarle Corporation

    Albemarle is one of the world's largest lithium producers. In the lithium industry, the majority of demand comes from batteries, where lithium is used as the energy storage material, particularly in electric vehicles. Albemarle is a fully integrated lithium producer. Its upstream resources include salt brine deposits in Chile and the US and two hard rock mines in Australia, both of which are joint ventures. The company operates lithium refining plants in Chile, the US, Australia, and China. Albemarle is a global leader in the production of bromine, used in flame retardants. It is also a major producer of oil refining catalysts.

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  • Analyst Report: Arcadium Lithium plc

    Arcadium Lithium is a pure-play lithium producer that was formed in the Allkem-Livent merger in January 2024. Arcadium should benefit from increased lithium demand via higher electric vehicle adoption, as lithium is a key component of EV batteries. The company's low-cost lithium carbonate production comes from two brine resources in Argentina. Arcadium also produces spodumene, a hard rock lithium upstream concentrate, from a mine in Australia and operates downstream lithium hydroxide conversion plants in the United States and China.

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  • Analyst Report: Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A.

    Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile is a Chilean commodities producer with significant operations in lithium (primarily used in batteries for electric vehicles and energy storage systems), specialty and standard potassium fertilizers, iodine (primarily used in X-ray contrast media), and solar salts. The company extracts these materials through its high-quality salt brine deposits and caliche ore. SQM is also developing a hard rock lithium project in Australia and is growing its lithium refining assets in China.

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  • Analyst Report: Albemarle Corporation

    Albemarle is one of the world's largest lithium producers. In the lithium industry, the majority of demand comes from batteries, where lithium is used as the energy storage material, particularly in electric vehicles. Albemarle is a fully integrated lithium producer. Its upstream resources include salt brine deposits in Chile and the US and two hard rock mines in Australia, both of which are joint ventures. The company operates lithium refining plants in Chile, the US, Australia, and China. Albemarle is a global leader in the production of bromine, used in flame retardants. It is also a major producer of oil refining catalysts.

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