For reference purposes, below are two charts depicting quarterly Operating Margins and quarterly Sales Per Share for the Materials Sector of the S&P500, as depicted. Each chart begins in the third (September) quarter of 2010 and extends through the first quarter of 2013. The first quarter of 2013 data is estimated, as shown.
The underlying data is from Standard & Poor’s earnings estimates for the S&P500, from the update of June 13, 2013:
Companies in the S&P500 Materials Sector include:
Air Products & Chem |
Airgas Inc |
Alcoa Inc |
Allegheny Technologies |
Ball Corp |
Bemis Co |
CF Industries Hldgs |
Cliffs Natural Resources |
Dow Chemical |
duPont(E.I.)deNemours |
Eastman Chemical |
Ecolab Inc |
FMC Corp |
Freep’t McMoRan Copper&Gold’B’ |
Intl Flavors/Fragr |
Intl Paper |
LyondellBasell Industries’A’ |
MeadWestvaco Corp |
Monsanto Co |
Mosaic Co |
Newmont Mining |
Nucor Corp |
Owens-Illinois |
PPG Indus |
Praxair Inc |
Sealed Air |
Sherwin-Williams |
Sigma-Aldrich |
U.S. Steel |
Vulcan Materials |
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