Nutrien Ltd. NTR
Weak AgriTech sector · World's biggest potash producer — fertilizer rides a commodity cycle.
🗓 Reports earnings in 74 days (2026-11-04) — calendar context, not a prediction.
Nutrien Ltd. (NTR) is an established AgriTech company, graded Weak on FrontierLab's evidence-based quality rubric (data as of 2026-08-21). Revenue grew 8.6% year-over-year at a 31% gross margin. Gross-profits-to-assets is 0.16; Rule of 40 is 23.3. Net share issuance -1.6% YoY (flat share count). No risk flags are currently noted. Analyst mix: 18 buy / 5 hold / 2 sell.
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Key quality signals
| Revenue growth (YoY) | 8.6% |
|---|---|
| Gross margin | 31% |
| Gross profits / assets | 0.16 |
| Rule of 40 | 23.3 |
| Net margin | 14.7% |
| Cash runway (months) | — |
| PEG | 0.2 |
| Price / sales | 1.2 |
Quality checklist
Each line is one quality test behind the grade — ✓ passed · ~ borderline · ✗ failed. Hover a metric in the tables below for what it means.
- ✗ Revenue growth — 8.6% (pass ≥ 20%)
- ✗ Gross profits / assets — 0.16 (pass ≥ 0.33)
- · Rule of 40 — 23.3 (context — graded for software only)
- ✓ Gross margin — 31% (pass ≥ 28% · AgriTech)
- ✓ Cash generation
- ✓ Share dilution — -1.6%
- ~ Competitive moat — Narrow
- ~ Market size (TAM) — Mod
Grade history
Graded Weak since 2026-06-10 — no grade changes recorded yet.
How have Weak-graded names performed?
The forward returns of all Weak-graded names since each grade was recorded — the bucket this name currently sits in, not a forecast of this individual stock.
| Window | Forward record vs the S&P | Median |
|---|---|---|
| ~1 month | 60% of Weak-graded names beat the S&P over 21 sessions (95% CI 39–78%, N=20). | Median excess vs the S&P was +0.6%. |
| ~3 months | building — 13 more sessions needed | |
| ~6 months | building — 76 more sessions needed | |
Scope: these are forward returns vs the S&P among names still covered at each horizon's end, within the curated universe — not a survivorship-clean whole-market backtest. Names later dropped from coverage are counted as attrition (not hidden), and single-session moves beyond ±300% are treated as split/data artifacts and excluded. How this is measured → · Full track record →
How it compares
Coarse same-sector, same-stage context — not a percentile or rank. GP/A is graded on its absolute level, not position.
Fundamentals
| Market cap | $35.10B |
|---|---|
| Stage | Established |
| Share issuance (YoY) | -1.6% · flat share count |
| Moat | Narrow |
| TAM | MOD |
| P/E (trailing) | 14.8 |
| EPS (trailing) | $4.94 |
| Burn multiple | — |
| Gross-margin trend (pts) | 1.8 |
| Cash / assets | 0.02 |
| Accruals (%) | -3.5% |
| Net debt / EBITDA | 1.9 |
| Statements as of | Q2 FY2026 · filed 2026-08-05 |
Momentum context — describes the past, not a signal
Low reached Nov 4, 2025 · high reached Mar 12, 2026 — by daily close.
| Price | $73.12 (as of 2026-08-20) |
|---|---|
| Last session move | — |
| % off 52-wk high | -14.3% |
| RSI (14) | 69 |
| Relative volume | 1.2× |
Positive signals
Analyst mix
| Strong buy | 5 |
|---|---|
| Buy | 13 |
| Hold | 5 |
| Sell | 2 |
| Strong sell | 0 |
▼ Analyst view softening — net -1 buy rating, coverage 26→25 analysts over ~4 weeks (per aggregated analyst ratings)
Ratings are context, not a price target. "Momentum" = how the mix changed over recent weeks, not a forecast.
From the headlines
Nutrien raising guidance despite nitrogen volume declines; specialty fertilizer expansion underway.
- Following Yara International and Nutrien's Expansion in Fertigation and Water-Soluble Formulations, New Study Projects 7.8% CAGR for Specialty Fertilizers
- Why Is Nutrien (NTR) Raising Guidance While Nitrogen Volumes Slide?
AI take — daily, AI-generated
AI leans mixed
Nutrien's 8.6% growth and favorable 0.2 PEG are bright spots, and guidance raises are encouraging, but weak gross margins (31%) and low asset efficiency (0.16) limit upside; the specialty expansion is a positive catalyst to monitor.
Generated by an AI model from the day's news — an opinion for context only. Not financial advice, not a recommendation, and not a price target.
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Data as of 2026-08-21 08:12 (end-of-day). How grades are computed →