Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical should benefit long-term from regulatory changes.
Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical should benefit long-term from regulatory changes.
Huntsman will benefit from stronger chemical volumes and a healthier balance sheet.
A strong backlog should provide ample growth potential for Praxair over the next decade.
Aluminum is the most abundant metallic element and not in short supply.Alumina's lack of diversity makes the firm susceptible to the vagaries of the market.The AWAC joint-venture agreements leave Alumina at Alcoa's beck and call.Aluminum and alumina production is energy-intensive, and energy costs
Albemarle benefits from its strong presence in the lucrative refinery catalyst space.
International Flavors & Fragrances' IFF third-quarter results support our thesis that unfavorable foreign exchange rates and soft fine fragrance sales will weigh on the firm's near-term results. Our fair value estimate remains in place. Third-quarter sales fell 1%, but grew 2% excluding unfavorable
BASF's BASFY third-quarter earnings contained few surprises. The firm had already given a sneak peak at its performance Oct. 14, and it was subject to many of the same trends affecting its peers in the chemical industry that have reported their own results in recent weeks (see our sector earnings
Nalco NLC reported stellar third-quarter results on Wednesday. While it was nice to see sales improve on a sequential basis, we were more impressed by the margin expansion in water services and, in particular, the much-maligned paper services business. We think the profitability improvement
Volume and price weakness persisted in SQM's SQM third quarter, weighing on the performance of its specialty plant nutrition (SPN) and lithium operations. SPN sales were off 50% year over year as volume and prices were sharply lower. Buyer behavior in SPN's end markets has been marked by the same