5 Value Stocks To Watch In The Basic Materials Sector

What are Value Stocks?

A value stock is traditionally defined in terms of how investors in the marketplace are valuing that company's future growth prospects. Low P/E multiples are good base indicators that the company is undervalued and can most likely be labelled as a value stock.

Below is a list of notable value stocks in the basic materials sector:

1. Arch Resources ARCH - P/E: 3.32
2. Ferroglobe GSM - P/E: 5.8
3. Buenaventura Mining Co BVN - P/E: 3.75
4. Ternium TX - P/E: 6.22
5. Hudson Technologies HDSN - P/E: 9.24

Arch Resources saw a decrease in earnings per share from 10.02 in Q1 to $4.04 now. Most recently, Ferroglobe reported earnings per share at $0.3, whereas in Q1 earnings per share sat at $0.05. The company's most recent dividend yield sits at 2.99%, which has increased by 0.88% from 2.11% last quarter.

Buenaventura Mining Co has reported Q2 earnings per share at $-0.03, which has decreased by 112.0% compared to Q1, which was 0.25. Most recently, the company reported a dividend yield of 1.41%, which has increased by 0.69% from last quarter's yield of 0.72%.

This quarter, Ternium experienced an increase in earnings per share, which was $1.91 in Q1 and is now $3.19. Its most recent dividend yield is at 9.5%, which has increased by 2.99% from 6.51% in the previous quarter.

Hudson Technologies's earnings per share for Q2 sits at $0.41, whereas in Q1, they were at 0.33.

The Significance: A value stock may need some time to rebound from its undervalued position. The risk of investing in a value stock is that this emergence may never materialize.