How is CF Industries (CF) doing?
CF Industries is a company in the agricultural inputs industry, based in Northbrook, IL, worth $17.1B. Here is how its shares and business compare with the rest of the market, and where it shows up on our dashboards.
Updated Oct 9, 2026
Middling
CF Industries shares are up 23% over the past year, 6 points ahead of the S&P 500. Its type is Churning Winner. Among large US stocks and funds it ranks in the 75th percentile on market beat, the 37th on staying power and the 69th on business growth. It appears on 10 of our dashboards, including 2nd on “Which stocks move with oil?” and 3rd on “Which stocks hold up when the market falls?”.
The past year
Price against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Score is its weekly rank against the market. Select a tile for that score month by month.
What kind of stock is it?
Its type on Stox Atlas, from its four scores: beating or lagging the market, a steady or erratic rank, a growing or slowing business, and whether buyers or sellers lead.
Churning Winner
Beating the market on a growing business, but erratically, and with sellers in charge lately.
Churning Winner this month; Hot Hand before that.
Also Churning Winner (52 in all): ADM · BG · INCY · HLT · CRS · BWA
How is it doing against its group?
Its group is Miners / metals, 23 large US stocks and funds whose prices tend to move together. Metals, mining and materials — the hard-asset cycle.
CF Industries is +23% over the past year, against +19% for the rest of the group and +16% for the S&P 500. It ranks 12th of 23 in Miners / metals.
How much does it move?
Its typical daily move, against its own past year, the market and other large stocks. Swings describe risk, not direction.
About usual CF Industries typically moves 4.0% in a day, about usual for it, and it swings more than 71% of large US stocks.
CF on our dashboards
Every question where CF Industries appears, in the order of the home page, with its reading and place in that table. Select a question to open it with CF highlighted. Select a column to sort.
| Question | Reading | Place | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Which stocks are analysts upgrading and downgrading? Events | 1Upgraded | 12 of 60 | Upgrades 1 · Downgrades 0 · Latest change Rothschild & Co: Sell to Neutral, Sep 28 |
| Which stocks hold up when the market falls? Leading stocks | 100Holds up | 3 of 60 | Down capture -79% · Up capture -18% · Beta -0.18 |
| Who is outgrowing its rivals? Business quality | 91Outgrowing | 46 of 60 | Revenue, 1Y +20% · Rivals +5% · Lead +15 pts |
| Whose profit margins are widening? Business quality | 85Widening | 60 of 60 | Change, 1Y +4.8 pts · Operating margin 38% · Gross margin 43% |
| Which companies are built to last? Business quality | 78Durable | 11 of 60 | Steady margins 81 · Reliable cash 71 · Balance sheet 81 |
| Which companies get the most from each employee? Business quality | 94Lean | 30 of 60 | Revenue / employee $2.6M · Profit / employee $614K · Value / employee $6.8M |
| Who is spending big on expansion? Business quality | 86Ramping | 52 of 60 | Capex, 1Y +50% · A year $1.1B · % of revenue 14% |
| Which stocks are cheapest on cash flow? Value | 91Cheap | 51 of 60 | Cash yield 9.1% · Price / FCF 10.9× · Cash margin 22% |
| Who is buying back their own stock? Dividends and buybacks | 91Shrinking | 45 of 60 | Shares, 1Y −5.6% · Bought back $0 · % of value 0.0% |
| Which stocks move with oil? Funds and commodities | 100Rises with oil | 2 of 45 | Sensitivity 0.55 · Correlation 0.67 · 3M −8% |
Go deeper on Stox
CF’s full profile: financial statements, earnings and analysts’ estimates, valuation against its sector, recent news with a summary, and its scores in detail.
How to read this page
How it’s measured. Scores from Stox rank the stock against about 1,200 S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 stocks and popular funds, where 100 is best; market beat and staying power use prices, business growth uses revenue, margins and cash flow. Readings on other dashboards come from this site’s pages.
Sources. Daily prices and company financial statements from Financial Modeling Prep; scores and co-movement groups from Stox.
Scores are percentiles: 80 means the stock ranks above 80% of the others on that measure. They describe the recent past and are not advice or a forecast.
Its type follows Stox Atlas: each of the four scores is split at 50. “Steady” means its rank has held, high or low, so it says nothing on its own about direction.
Its group is the cluster of large US stocks whose prices have moved together over five years, with the market’s own moves taken out. The typical daily move is the average true range over 14 days, a measure of how far the price travels in a day including overnight gaps.
For financial statements, earnings and news, see CF’s full profile on Stox.
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