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Over the past 12 months, CF has outperformed S&P 500, delivering a return of +25% compared to S&P 500's +15% growth.
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CF Industries Holdings Inc
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CF Industries makes nitrogen-based products that sit at the center of modern farming and some industrial uses. Its main products are ammonia, urea, urea ammonium nitrate, and ammonium nitrate, which farmers and crop distributors buy as fertilizer to help boost yields. The company also sells ammonia to industrial customers that use it as a feedstock or in processes such as emissions control and refrigeration. The business makes money by producing these nitrogen products and selling them through a network that reaches farmers, fertilizer retailers, wholesalers, and industrial buyers in North America and overseas. CF Industries starts with natural gas as a key raw material, turns it into ammonia, and then upgrades or ships it into other nitrogen products. That means its profits are tied not just to fertilizer demand, but also to the spread between natural gas costs and the prices it can get for nitrogen products. What makes CF Industries different is its role as a large-scale nitrogen producer rather than a brand-name consumer products company. It sits upstream in the food supply chain, supplying the basic ingredients that make crop fertilizer work. Because nitrogen fertilizer is essential to agriculture and ammonia is a core industrial chemical, the company’s business is closely tied to farming economics, energy costs, and global trade in fertilizer ingredients.