Basic Materials news reactions
The typical Basic Materials name's news reactions land within 1.39pp — the middle 50% of its measured moves at 30 minutes, across 765 names. Sector membership is CURRENT, not point-in-time: a name is counted where it sits today, including for reactions measured three years ago. Every measured ticker →
Basic Materials names differ by how far they move, not which way.
Of the 765 measured Basic Materials names, 382 have a median 30-minute reaction of exactly 0.00%, 194 are above zero and 189 below. That is why no single Basic Materials median is published: the middle of that distribution is zero, and it is zero for every sector on this site. What differs between sectors is how WIDE a typical name’s reactions are — the median Basic Materials name’s middle 50% spans 1.39pp — and how often they close up: the median name here is positive on 41% of its measured events.
The 24 most-measured Basic Materials names.
| Ticker | Events | Median 30-min | % positive | Middle 50% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMRS | 1,831 | -0.24% | 43% | 3.45pp |
| UFS | 1,812 | +0.01% | 51% | 0.49pp |
| FMC | 1,703 | +0.05% | 52% | 1.05pp |
| HSC | 1,595 | 0.00% | 49% | 1.17pp |
| AU | 1,550 | 0.00% | 49% | 0.39pp |
| MONDY | 1,499 | 0.00% | 48% | 0.31pp |
| CC | 1,449 | +0.09% | 55% | 1.25pp |
| NX | 1,427 | -0.03% | 46% | 0.77pp |
| JHX | 1,412 | +0.05% | 52% | 0.99pp |
| USCR | 1,389 | +0.12% | 55% | 1.20pp |
| SCHN | 1,351 | +0.06% | 52% | 1.39pp |
| RFP | 1,316 | +0.14% | 52% | 1.72pp |
| AKS | 1,312 | -0.10% | 44% | 2.36pp |
| BHP | 1,294 | -0.02% | 45% | 0.26pp |
| UNVR | 1,277 | 0.00% | 48% | 1.43pp |
| BTU | 1,269 | -0.04% | 48% | 1.42pp |
| RIO | 1,246 | 0.00% | 49% | 0.29pp |
| SMG | 1,227 | -0.02% | 48% | 0.99pp |
| SSRM | 1,210 | +0.10% | 53% | 1.56pp |
| MBII | 1,157 | -0.10% | 41% | 3.05pp |
| KRA | 1,119 | +0.02% | 51% | 1.19pp |
| GG | 1,105 | +0.02% | 50% | 1.03pp |
| NEM | 1,069 | +0.01% | 50% | 1.09pp |
| PPG | 1,044 | -0.02% | 46% | 0.41pp |
Last 3 years, pulled 2026-09-21. Reaction = percent move vs. the price at the news timestamp. Ranked by measured events, most first — the bake caps a name’s count at 2,000, so names at the cap are ordered by symbol rather than by anything measured. Every number on this page is a cross-section over NAMES, one vote each: a name with 2,000 measured events counts the same as one with 40, and none of these are pooled event medians.
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