How are mining and metals stocks doing?
Gold, copper and other metal miners, steelmakers and materials companies. Here is how they have done as a group against the S&P 500, and which of them are leading and lagging.
Updated Oct 9, 2026
In line
Mining and metals stocks are up 16% over the past year as an equal-weighted group, against +16% for the S&P 500. 10 of 20 beat the index. Nucor (NUE) leads at +82% and FMC (FMC) trails at −72%. Over the past month the group is −8%, against +3% for the S&P.
The past year
The group against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Select a stock in the table to chart it against the group.
All 21 mining and metals stocks
Sorted by the past year’s return. Select a row to chart the stock against the group, or its ticker to open its page. Select a column to sort.
| Stock | P3 | 1M | 3M | YTD | 1Y | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NUE Nucor | 74Strong | −2.0% | +7% | +53% | +82% | Bellwether |
| FCX Freeport-McMoRan | 93Strong | +3.5% | +23% | +45% | +72% | Bellwether |
| STLD Steel Dynamics | 67Middling | +0.5% | +2% | +41% | +63% | Bellwether |
| SCCO Southern Copper | 91Strong | +7.8% | +20% | +46% | +58% | Bellwether |
| RS Reliance | 46Middling | +2.6% | +4% | +39% | +43% | Speculative Pop |
| NEM Newmont | 85Strong | −6.6% | +27% | +18% | +33% | Bellwether |
| DOW Dow | 52Middling | −4.1% | −6% | +22% | +26% | Faith Trade |
| CF CF Industries | 58Middling | −17.4% | −8% | +44% | +23% | Churning Winner |
| LYB LyondellBasell | 47Middling | −6.6% | +3% | +39% | +23% | Faith Trade |
| AU AngloGold Ashanti | 86Strong | −9.4% | +18% | +10% | +22% | Bellwether |
| RGLD Royal Gold | 70Strong | −7.0% | +22% | +6% | +15% | Bellwether |
| AA Alcoa | 27Weak | −12.6% | −13% | −21% | +14% | Rolling Over |
| ALB Albemarle | 76Strong | −17.1% | −19% | −28% | +10% | Distribution Top |
| CE Celanese | 52Middling | −1.5% | −6% | +6% | +6% | Rolling Over |
| CLF Cleveland-Cliffs | 41Middling | +9.7% | +34% | −2% | −7% | Bottom Fished |
| HUN Huntsman | 41Middling | −14.6% | −30% | −19% | −10% | Sleepy Staple |
| WLK Westlake | 10Weak | −13.0% | −18% | −16% | −24% | Sleepy Staple |
| OLN Olin | 23Weak | −14.0% | −30% | −29% | −42% | Sleepy Staple |
| MOS Mosaic | 14Weak | −26.2% | −16% | −22% | −46% | Sleepy Staple |
| FMC FMC | 5Weak | −30.9% | −23% | −40% | −72% | Sleepy Staple |
| CTVA Corteva | 8Weak | – | – | – | – | Falling Knife |
How to read this page
How it’s measured. A group of large US stocks whose prices have moved together over the past five years once the market’s own moves are taken out: the same groups as Stox’s co-movement clusters, leaving out members whose business doesn’t fit the name. The group is equal-weighted, so each company counts the same whatever its size, and returns are share-price changes from daily closes.
Sources. Daily prices from Financial Modeling Prep; scores and co-movement groups from Stox.
An equal-weighted group can read quite differently from a sector fund, which gives the biggest companies the most weight.
P3 is Stox’s combined score of market beat, staying power and business growth, from 0 to 100. Type is the stock’s Stox Atlas type. Both describe the past year, not what comes next.
Groups are built from how stocks trade rather than from industry labels, so a company can sit with stocks from another sector that move like it.
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