Brexit fears deal heavy blow to chemical stocks
Chemical stocks take a larger hit compared to broader market Monday on fears the U.K.'s decision to depart the Eu could hurt companies within the sector with contact with Europe.
Shares of Celanese, Eastman Chemical, Lyondell Basell Industries, Dow jones Chemical, DuPont and PPG Industries are each lower greater than 3 % in mid-day buying and selling today. The Conventional & Poor's 500 Chemicals Index was adding another 3.2 percent decline Monday to last week's 6.4 % drop.
"The U.K.'s election to depart the Eu introduces significant uncertainty and volatility in to the global economy, that is rarely great for chemical companies," CLSA analyst Nils-Bertil Wallin stated inside a research note Monday.
Caffeine group comes with an overall European market exposure that "is significant in an average revenue contribution of 24 percent," the analyst stated. "Economic and currency headwinds represent the greatest risk, having a possibility to erode earnings per share by 3 % in 2017."
Chemical firms that are envisioned having the finest contact with U.K. include PPG Industries adopted by Celanese and Eastman Chemical, based on Wallin. The precise number of contact with the U.K. market isn't known, but CLSA estimates Celanese has almost 40 % contact with the ecu market, while Lyondell is all about 35 % and Dow jones Chemical a little more than 30 %.
PPG, a supplier of chemicals, paints, niche materials and fiber glass, has manufacturing and R&D facilities in a number of locations within the U.K. within its aerospace, fiber glass, automotive refinish, along with other sections. PPG's stock was lately lower $4.30 a share, or about 4.2 percent, at $98.41 a share, in heavier than normal volume.
Celanese, a maker of niche materials and chemicals, fell $3.93 a share, or 6 %, to $61.54. Shares of Eastman Chemical, maker and marketer of chemicals, fibers and plastics, shed $3.08 a share, or 4.five percent, to $65.33.
Wallin stated he expects the marketplace reaction might be overdone on PPG. He added, while Celanese and Eastman have exposure too, "a part of that's likely in cigarette filter tow, whose muted cyclicality, could mitigate the economical sensitivity of all of those other portfolio."
