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Scan of 2026-08-31 · 2,409 names scored · prices as of that date
Highest trailing profitability and earnings quality versus sector peers, latest scan: sector percentiles on gross profitability, margins, cash conversion, returns on capital and the Piotroski F-score, averaged. A fact about the trailing record, not a claim that profitability persists or pays.
Tested the unforgiving way: a composite ranking built from these same point-in-time filings (2017-01-31 to 2026-05-29) showed no measurable predictive power (mean IC 0.0168, t = 1.21), and its top quintile did not beat holding everything even before costs. Ranks like these describe today's record; they do not predict tomorrow's return.
60 names — page 1 of 2 · sector: Materials · Export CSV
| # | Ticker | Company | Sector | Quality composite | ROIC (approx.) | Operating margin | Net margin | Piotroski F-score | Own 5y |
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| 1 | SCCO | Southern Copper Corporation | Materials | 96.8 | 44.4% |
Never the absolute multiple alone. A P/E of 9 is a fact; whether it is low depends on what you hold it against.
The five-year window is the empirically privileged one. Cheap against its sector and cheap against its own history are different claims, and a stock can be one without being the other — which is the whole reason both columns are shown rather than blended into a single score.
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| 2 | NEM | Newmont Corporation | Materials | 88.9 | — | — | 33.9% | 8 / 9 | — |
| 3 | IDR | Idaho Strategic Resources, Inc. | Materials | 84.4 | 17.2% | 43.9% | 43.3% | 7 / 9 | — |
| 4 | HWM | Howmet Aerospace Inc. | Materials | 83.6 | 24.6% | 26.7% | 20.2% | 7 / 9 | — |
| 5 | HL | Hecla Mining Company | Materials | 82.6 | 20.4% | 42.4% | 16.8% | 8 / 9 | — |
| 6 | USLM | United States Lime & Minerals | Materials | 81.0 | 43.3% | 41.6% | 35.4% | 6 / 9 | — |
| 7 | MLI | Mueller Industries, Inc. | Materials | 79.5 | 41.1% | 24.4% | 19.4% | 6 / 9 | — |
| 8 | AVY | Avery Dennison Corp. | Materials | 76.5 | — | — | 7.7% | 7 / 9 | — |
| 9 | ATI | ATI Inc. | Materials | 76.3 | 39.0% | 14.3% | 9.3% | 7 / 9 | — |
| 10 | CRS | Carpenter Technology Corp | Materials | 73.4 | 21.3% | 21.3% | 15.8% | 7 / 9 | — |
| 11 | BDC | Belden Inc. | Materials | 70.0 | 12.5% | 11.5% | 8.5% | 8 / 9 | — |
| 12 | VMC | Vulcan Materials Company(Holding Company) | Materials | 69.8 | 10.0% | 20.6% | 13.8% | 8 / 9 | — |
| 13 | CDE | Coeur Mining, Inc. | Materials | 69.1 | 8.5% | 38.7% | 31.1% | 6 / 9 | — |
| 14 | NWPX | NWPX Infrastructure, Inc. Common Stock | Materials | 68.2 | 11.2% | 10.6% | 7.7% | 8 / 9 | — |
| 15 | FCX | Freeport-McMoran Inc. | Materials | 66.5 | 23.1% | 27.8% | — | — | — |
| 16 | MLM | Martin Marietta Materials | Materials | 65.5 | 7.9% | 22.4% | 39.9% | 6 / 9 | — |
| 17 | REYN | Reynolds Consumer Products Inc. Common Stock | Materials | 63.7 | — | — | 8.7% | 6 / 9 | — |
| 18 | WOR | Worthington Enterprises, Inc. | Materials | 62.5 | 1.3% | 1.7% | 8.4% | 8 / 9 | — |
| 19 | CENX | Century Aluminum Co | Materials | 62.0 | 54.0% | 19.2% | 13.7% | 6 / 9 | — |
| 20 | STLD | Steel Dynamics Inc | Materials | 60.5 | 10.8% | 9.1% | 7.2% | 8 / 9 | — |
| 21 | PKG | Packaging Corp of America | Materials | 58.8 | 10.0% | 11.7% | 8.0% | 4 / 9 | — |
| 22 | CSTM | Constellium SE Class A Ordinary shares | Materials | 58.8 | — | — | 4.9% | 7 / 9 | — |
| 23 | SON | Sonoco Products Company | Materials | 58.5 | 12.7% | 13.6% | 13.6% | 5 / 9 | — |
| 24 | IIIN | Insteel Industries, Inc. | Materials | 57.1 | — | — | 6.2% | 8 / 9 | — |
| 25 | MATV | Mativ Holdings, Inc. | Materials | 55.3 | 3.0% | 2.7% | 3.9% | 7 / 9 | — |
| 26 | TG | Tredegar Corporation | Materials | 53.5 | — | — | — | 5 / 9 | — |
| 27 | MUX | McEwen Inc. | Materials | 52.1 | 7.1% | 21.8% | 14.6%FY | 6 / 9FY | — |
| 28 | CMC | Commercial Metals Company | Materials | 51.6 | — | — | 6.7% | 6 / 9 | — |
| 29 | GPK | Graphic Packaging Holding Company | Materials | 51.3 | 5.4% | 7.0% | 3.2% | 6 / 9 | — |
| 30 | SND | Smart Sand, Inc. Common Stock | Materials | 50.3 | -0.8% | -0.6% | 6.1% | 7 / 9 | — |
| 31 | IPI | Intrepid Potash, Inc | Materials | 48.7 | 3.2% | 4.4% | 4.6% | — | — |
| 32 | KALU | Kaiser Aluminum Corporation | Materials | 47.9 | 9.8% | 6.6% | 4.1% | 6 / 9 | — |
| 33 | MTUS | Metallus Inc. | Materials | 47.5 | — | — | 0.2% | 8 / 9 | — |
| 34 | CMP | Compass Minerals International, Inc. | Materials | 46.6 | 6.6% | 9.3% | 0.5% | 7 / 9 | — |
| 35 | OCC | Optical Cable Corp. | Materials | 44.6 | 10.9% | 2.5% | 1.3% | 7 / 9 | — |
| 36 | WS | Worthington Steel, Inc. | Materials | 40.7 | 8.3% | 4.2% | 3.6% | 3 / 9 | — |
| 37 | KNF | Knife River Corporation | Materials | 39.2 | 7.0% | 8.8% | 4.6% | 5 / 9 | — |
| 38 | MDU | MDU Resources Group, Inc. | Materials | 36.8 | 5.0% | 16.2% | 10.5% | 4 / 9 | — |
| 39 | LEU | Centrus Energy Corp. | Materials | 35.4 | 35.2% | 6.7% | 13.4% | 2 / 9 | — |
| 40 | SLVM | Sylvamo Corporation | Materials | 34.5 | — | — | 3.1% | 5 / 9 | — |
| 41 | CTGO | Contango Silver & Gold Inc. | Materials | 32.4 | 16.8% | — | — | 3 / 9 | — |
| 42 | IP | International Paper Co. | Materials | 32.0 | — | — | -13.8% | 6 / 9 | — |
| 43 | ROCK | Gibraltar Industries, Inc. | Materials | 30.5 | 3.4% | 7.2% | -10.7% | 2 / 9 | — |
| 44 | SW | Smurfit Westrock plc | Materials | 28.2 | 3.3%FY* | 4.8%FY* | 1.5%FY* | 5 / 9FY* | — |
| 45 | NX | Quanex Building Products Corporation | Materials | 28.2 | -24.6% | -11.2% | -14.0% | 6 / 9 | — |
| 46 | IE | Ivanhoe Electric Inc. | Materials | 26.5 | 3.2% | 302.6% | -998.6% | 2 / 9 | — |
| 47 | TWI | Titan International, Inc.(Delaware) | Materials | 23.8 | -1.2% | -0.3% | -4.7% | 5 / 9 | — |
| 48 | CLW | Clearwater Paper Corporation | Materials | 22.5 | -3.4% | -3.2% | -1.6% | 5 / 9 | — |
| 49 | SXC | SUNCOKE ENERGY INC | Materials | 21.2 | -4.9% | -3.8% | -3.5% | 2 / 9 | — |
| 50 | NG | NovaGold Resources Inc. | Materials | 15.8 | -15.8% | — | — | 4 / 9 | — |
"Quality composite" is a 0–100 position among valid sector peers — the mean of the component metrics' sector percentiles. "—" means the scan published no figure, deliberately. "n/a — masked" means the metric is misleading in that name's sector (a REIT's GAAP P/E, a bank's FCF yield) — hover for the reason, which comes from the same sector-validity rules the composite itself respects. An FY tag marks a trailing-year figure built from an annual filing; hover for what that means.
