CF CF Industries
Materials · Fertilizers & Agricultural Chemicals · close $120.85 (2026-10-16) · latest quarter in EDGAR: 2026-06-30
CF Industries (CF) has a ThetaGrade House Rating of 74/100 (grade A), ranking #5 of 57 in Materials. Its strongest pillars are cash flow (95) and profitability (91); its weakest is analyst sentiment (17). TTM revenue growth is 20.0% and operating margin 41.1%.
Data as of .
Analyst sentiment
weight 7.5% · 17| Consensus score (1–5) (3.8%) | derived | 0 |
| 90-day net rating shift (3.8%) | derived | 31 |
Growth
weight 30.83% · 70| Revenue growth YoY (TTM) (12.3%) | 20.0% | 78 |
| EPS growth YoY (TTM) (12.3%) | 76.4% | 83 |
| Revenue acceleration (6.2%) | -1.9% | 28 |
Profitability
weight 18.5% · 91| Operating margin (9.9%) | 41.1% | 92 |
| 4Q gross-margin change (8.6%) | 6.9% | 89 |
Balance sheet
weight 18.5% · 77| Net debt / EBITDA (9.9%) | 0.84× | 70 |
| Current ratio (4.9%) | 4.86 | 91 |
| Interest coverage (3.7%) | 20.52× | 77 |
Cash flow
weight 12.33% · 95| FCF margin (6.2%) | 25.4% | 94 |
| FCF yield (6.2%) | 9.9% | 96 |
Valuation
weight 12.33% · 65| P/E (inverted) (6.2%) | 8.98× | 93 |
| EV/Sales (inverted) (6.2%) | 2.81× | 36 |
Technicals (EOD)
| RSI(14) | 52.5 |
| EMA 9 / 21 | 117.73 / 118.91 |
| 200-day SMA | 114.42 |
| Volume vs 20d avg | 0.62× |
| 20-day return | -9.7% |
Exit-rule monitor
No exit or watch rules triggered.
Data source per metric (SEC XBRL tag or derivation): Revenue: Revenues · Gross profit: GrossProfit · Operating income: OperatingIncomeLoss · Interest expense: InterestExpense · D&A: DepreciationDepletionAndAmortization · EPS: EarningsPerShareDiluted · Market cap: SEC shares (dei EntityCommonStockSharesOutstanding (cover page)) × EOD close · P/E: EOD close ÷ SEC TTM EPS (EarningsPerShareDiluted).
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FAQ
- What is CF's House Rating?
- CF scores 74 out of 100 (grade A) as of 2026-10-16, ranking #5 of 57 Materials stocks we cover.
- What do analysts say about CF?
- ThetaGrade's analyst-sentiment pillar for CF scores 17/100 against its sector peers, which we read as negative. This is our own derived score; we do not republish individual analyst ratings, counts or targets.
- When does CF report earnings next?
- CF has announced its next earnings report for 2026-11-04 (source: CF Industries press release, Oct 7, 2026 (dividend + confirms Q3 dates; first planned Jan 21, 2026)).
- Is CF a buy?
- ThetaGrade does not give personal advice. The House Rating is an educational, rules-based summary of public data; see the methodology for how it is built.
Sources: SEC EDGAR filings (fetched 2026-10-18), Finnhub recommendation trends, Massive EOD prices. Scores are sector percentiles; a factor without usable data is a data gap: it is left out and the remaining weights are renormalized (nothing is imputed). Educational only. Methodology