Market Composite

Chemicals: Specialty Stocks$226.55

-0.64%4:00PM 07/30/2021

The list of companies include ALB-Albemarle Corp., ALTA-Altabancorp, AMRS-Amyris Inc, AMTX-Aemetis Inc, APD-Air Products & Chemicals Inc., ASH-Ashland Global Holdings Inc, ASIX-AdvanSix Inc, AVNT-Avient Corp, AVTR-Avantor Inc., BCPC-Balchem Corp., CDXC-Chromadex Corp, CDXS-Codexis Inc., CHX-ChampionX Corporation, CMP-Compass Minerals International Inc, DOW-Dow Inc, DSWL-Deswell Industries, Inc., ECL-Ecolab, Inc., ESI-Element Solutions Inc, FF-Futurefuel Corp, FFHL-Fuwei Films (Holdings) Co, FSI-Flexible Solutions International Inc, GEVO-Gevo Inc, GPRE-Green Plains Inc, GRA-W.R. Grace & Co., GURE-Gulf Resources Inc, IOSP-Innospec Inc, KOP-Koppers Holdings Inc, KRO-Kronos Worldwide, Inc., KWR-Quaker Chemical Corp., LIN-Linde Plc

Latest intraday update before market close @ 19:45:40 PM 07/30/2021

Summary :

Average return is down -1.0%

Median return is down -0.7%

14 out of 52 stocks are up (limited to those with intraday pricing feeds).

Top Movers : ROG -7.8%, GURE -7.3%, AMTX -6.8%, BAK -5.3%, LOOP -4.4%, AMRS -4.1%, FFHL -3.0%, CHX -2.8%, VHI -2.8%, GEVO -2.6%, CDXC -2.5%, DSWL -2.4%, SSL -2.1%,

Aggregated price index

Aggregated price index with volume information

Summary:

Chemicals: Specialty stocks down 0.6% on average while median return down 0.5% in a day
Chemicals: Specialty stocks up 0.9% on average while median return up 0.9% in a week
Chemicals: Specialty stocks down 3.4% on average while median return down 2.5% in a month
When average return is significantly different from median return, this implies an asymmetry - composite return is driven by some outliners.

Aggregated price index (close) is based on equal weighted constituencies returns. Average short volume and average total volumes are averaged across all volume data among constituencies.

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Ticker	1 Day Return	1 Week Return	1 Month Return	PE Ratio	PE/G	P/B (mrq)	P/S (ttm)	Earning Growth	MarketCap	Short %	Held By Institutions %	RSI	Price Pattern	Days Since Channel Change	Channel Slope (daily rate %)	Half Channel Bandwidth	Distance to Channel MidPoint %

FFHL	7.0%	0.6%	-13.4%			0.12	0.08		31.7M	1%	9%	54	-/-	84	-0.0%	18.7%	-3.3%
LIN	2.7%	2.9%	6.3%	55.89	3.21	3.17	5.29	71%	159.9B	1%	81%	68	\/	168	0.1%	4.7%	1.9%
GPRE	2.3%	6.6%	5.2%	-12.65	-4.01	1.77	0.82		1.6B	21%	111%	59	\/	168	0.7%	7.0%	-0.2%
ASIX	2.1%	12.4%	12.0%	14.42	0.92	1.62	0.63	228%	938.3M	3%	87%	69	\-/	85	0.1%	6.4%	8.0%
MEOH	1.8%	0.0%	1.8%		0.42	1.97	0.87	360%	2.6B		82%	51	\/-\	85	-0.1%	13.2%	-0.5%
ALB	1.6%	8.2%	22.3%	61.32	1.64	3.95	5.89	-6%	24B	2%	81%	71	\/	168	0.2%	8.5%	12.5%
MTX	1.6%	4.9%	2.0%	24.09	2.84	1.77	1.59	3%	2.7B	2%	99%	57	\/	85	0.1%	6.2%	-1.8%
PQG	1.3%	4.6%	1.3%	-5.68	10.2	1.76	1.89		2.1B	2%	70%	58	\/\	85	-0.1%	9.1%	3.2%
AVTR	0.9%	1.1%	5.8%		0.91	11.20	3.03	249%	21.9B	4%	91%	67	\/	85	0.2%	4.7%	3.2%
NL	0.8%	-3.2%	-7.2%	11.3	-0.28	1.12	3.07	594%	294.2M	2%	11%	37	\-/	267	0.3%	7.3%	-21.7%
REX	0.7%	3.0%	-9.1%	27.15	1.51	1.50	1.30		491.3M	3%	84%	47	\/\	85	-0.1%	10.2%	-4.0%
APD	0.5%	0.3%	1.2%	34.28	2.61	5.11	7.22	1%	64.4B	1%	85%	53	\/-/	85	0.1%	5.8%	-2.1%
BCPC	0.5%	2.3%	2.8%	49.73	1.41	4.96	5.89	18%	4.4B	2%	89%	63	\-/	85	0.1%	4.6%	0.4%
ASH	0.2%	-2.8%	-2.8%	37.48	1.94	1.70	2.27		5.2B	4%	98%	41	\/-	85	0.0%	7.0%	-5.2%
ECL	0.2%	1.3%	7.2%	-49.29	2.75	9.32	5.03	-32%	63.1B	1%	87%	64	\/-	85	0.0%	6.5%	2.0%
ESI	0.1%	0.9%	0.0%	38.99	1.19	2.43	2.93	857%	5.8B	2%	97%	52	\/	168	0.4%	5.8%	-5.8%
GRA	0.1%	-0.1%	0.7%	187.45	0.83	14.90	2.58	63%	4.6B	4%	85%	66	\-/	168	0.2%	9.2%	-3.9%
KWR	0.1%	5.0%	6.1%	42.17	1.28	3.13	2.83		4.5B	13%	81%	69	\/\	85	-0.1%	9.4%	8.6%
LTHM	0.1%	3.3%	0.8%	-160.31	2.88	4.75	8.90		2.9B	22%	93%	53	\-/-	85	0.0%	11.0%	1.6%
OEC	-0.1%	4.2%	-4.8%		3.09	5.68	0.99	31%	1.1B	2%	94%	48	\/-	85	-0.0%	8.7%	-5.2%

* P/E and MarketCap are refreshed daily using IEX Cloud service. P/B, P/S, PEG, growth, short%, HelbyInstitute are refreshed weekly using Yahoo feeds. For latest stock stats please visit Yahoo Finance.

* Price Patter: / is upward trend, \ is downward trend, - is sideway. Click on the ticker to go to stock page to see Bayesian Trend model plot of the time series.

* Channel and change points are derived from Bayesian Trend model, where the channel slope is the growth rate while change points are those the model partition the time series.

1M winners are : Winners for past month are $ALB 22.3%, $CMP 15.7%, $ASIX 12.0%, $ECL 7.2%, $LIN 6.3%
1M losers are : Losers for past month are $TROX -17.7%, $GURE -20.1%, $AMTX -21.5%, $TANH -29.8%, $VNTR -33.1%
1W winners are : Winners for past week are $ASIX 12.4%, $RYAM 8.4%, $ALB 8.2%, $GPRE 6.6%, $CHX 5.4%
1W losers are : Losers for past week are $GURE -3.8%, $SHI -4.5%, $AMRS -6.3%, $CDXC -7.7%, $AMTX -9.7%

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Correlation Analysis

Index correlation analysis

Correlation for the past month is 32.9%, for the past 3 months is 23.4%

In the past month for a 5 days rolling window, the highest corrrelation is 47.8%, the lowest correlation is 2.1%, the latest correlation is 26.3%

When a correlation deviated from the normal level and goes lower or even negative, it indicates some of stocks have deviated from the normal direction of the group. The deviation could reverse if long term level of correlation was at a higher level. It creates trading opportunities and deserves study whether the deviation is idiosyncratic or systematic.

Among pairwise correlation, the highest correlation is 93.0% between AVNT and KOP

The lowest correlation is -46.0% between GPRE and GURE