Metals & Mining Industry Thu 2025-03-27: 5Average strength rating (Unch)

Brian Degracia

27 Mar 2025 • 3 min read

METALS & MINING INDUSTRY 2025-03-27 UNCHANGED at 5Average over the past week. Gold and Silver are the leading sub-industries at 2VeryStrong with both strengthening one rating this week. Other than laggard Aluminum which weakened one level to 7Weaker, the other sub-industries are at 6Weak.

This post is organized as follows:

I. Introduction
II. Market Environment - TAILWIND
III. Industry Background
IV. Industry/Sub-industry Recent Performance - Neutral
V. Stock Details

I. Introduction

This post provides detail on the Metals & Mining industry - specifically:

🔹 An objective measurement of industry strengthening and weakening so you can objectively compare recent strength and weakness across/within industries and sub-industries.

🔹 A listing of stocks from 1Strongest through 9Weakest (highest/lowest rating of 9 levels) by sub-industry. Generally, stronger stocks rated 1Strongest have less overhead supply to impede further price appreciation. Meanwhile, weaker stocks rated 9Weakest may 1) be prone to “pops” from bargain hunting and short-covering yet, due to preceding weakness, are 2) also prone to falling far and fast from holders "throwing in the towel."

II. Market Environment

This system seeks to understand the current market environment before considering sector, industry, sub-industry, and stock-level strength. There is no guarantee this objective measurement will remain either favorable to longs (tailwinds present) or unfavorable (headwinds present). The critical factor is this acknowledges the clear influence market factors have on the levels below it and lays the groundwork for subsequent principle-based decision-making.

The current market/sector environment is providing a TAILWIND.

The Market Strength Score changed to +6% (a positive reading means "Risk On") as of Friday, March 14, 2025.

The current strength score is +30% as shown below. The upper bound for this score is +100%. While of course not guaranteed that will happen, there is room to rise. There is no way to determine the amount of index points that would be associated with a strengthening to +100%.

Here's today's associated Sector Risk Gauge:

III. Industry Background

Largest of 7 sub-industries (59 stocks, average 8):

Industrial Metals & Minerals (17 stocks)
Gold (13 stocks)
Steel & Iron (11 stocks)
Silver (9 stocks)

Top 10 Market Caps:
SCCO/Southern Copper Corp, FCX/Freeport-McMoran Inc, NEM/Newmont Corporation, AEM/Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd, GOLD/Barrick Gold Corp, NUE/Nucor Corp, WPM/Wheaton Precious Metals Corp, FNV/Franco Nevada Corp, TECK/Teck Resources Limited, STLD/Steel Dynamics Inc

IV. Industry Recent Performance - 5Average unchanged = Neutral

The following summarizes this week's positive/negative performance and major outliers (greater than +10% and lesser than -10%) and the past 10 weeks ratings and changes for the Metals & Mining sub-industries.

V. Stock Details

The following provides a listing of all Metals & Mining industry stocks in order of 1) sub-industry, 2) strongest-to-weakest strength rating, then 3) highest to lowest return this week. This is preceded by a summary of the proportion of 1Strongest to 9Weakest stocks.