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Company snapshot — Nutrien Ltd

NTR in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Nutrien supplies crop inputs and farm services through four segments: Retail, Potash, Nitrogen and Phosphate. Retail sells crop nutrients, crop protection, seed and related agronomic and financing services to growers. Potash covers the mining and processing of potash fertiliser, while Nitrogen makes ammonia, urea and related nitrogen products, and Phosphate produces solid and liquid phosphate fertilisers and feed-grade phosphoric acid. It is headquartered in Saskatoon, Canada.
Where it sits in the stack
Nutrien carries no seat in our index; it sits in the Basic Materials sector, Agricultural Inputs industry, outside the build-out sleeves the diary otherwise tracks.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group places it with scored Basic Materials names from the US, mostly gold miners such as Barrick Mining and Agnico Eagle, reflecting sector and country rather than product overlap; the market more often compares it with fellow fertiliser producer Mosaic.
Why Closelook tracks it
It holds no Closelook index seat, but it does carry a Closelook score, where the valuation module reads strongest and the quality module weakest among the modules the diary tracks.
What the diary watches
Whether the capital-allocation strength implied by its score is matched by any pickup in growth, given growth currently reads as the weaker side of its profile.

Nutrien Ltd (NTR) trades on US exchanges, classified under Basic Materials.

The Closelook company score reads 49/100 composite (momentum 61, quality 41, valuation 59) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for NTR, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

The Street on this name 1 analyst action on the wire · latest: initiation by KeyBanc, 2026-09-10

The Street on this name

Analyst actions and the latest print for NTR from the Closelook wires — third-party opinions on the record, not our readings.

  • Initiation KeyBanc — at Sector Weight Initiated to Sector Weight 2026-09-10

1 action on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 1 initiation. Analyst wire → · Earnings wire →

Who it is priced against Agricultural Inputs · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Agricultural Inputs

Names in the same industry from the Closelook universe; scored names rank on their Closelook score, the rest on trend state.

Compared against NTR on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 2.84%, quarterly · buybacks 561 m USD in FY2025

Dividends and capital return

What NTR pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 2.19 USD per share · a 2.84% yield on the 2026-09-18 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-18
  • Change on the year +100.9% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 1.09 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.55 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-06-30
  • By calendar year 2025: 2.18 USD (partial) · 2026: 1.10 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-03-31
  • Dividends paid, FY2025 1.08 bn USD 45% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2025 561 m USD 1.5% of today's market value
  • Share count −1.6% in FY2025 163 m USD of stock-based compensation in the year
  • Capital returned 1.64 bn USD · 81% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 50/100 · S&P 500 fund at 49, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-18
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 97th percentile of the window, +4.9% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-18
  • Sector × region Materials in US: −1.9% week · −4.8% month · −3.2% quarter · −2.9% yearThe Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from XLB.US; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-09-20
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.07 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-18

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-19

Quick answers

What is Nutrien Ltd (NTR)?

Nutrien Ltd trades as NTR on the US exchange (US) and is classified under Basic Materials in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-19.

Is NTR in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Nutrien Ltd is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-19.

What is Nutrien Ltd's Closelook composite score?

49 out of 100, with momentum 61, quality 41 and valuation 59 sub-scores, as of 2026-09-19. Scores are Closelook's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does NTR trade against its moving averages?

Uptrend stack intact: Trades +7.6% vs the 50-day and +11.6% vs the 200-day average, 8.2% below the 52-week high and +49.1% off the 52-week low; a golden cross printed 13 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-18 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Nutrien Ltd do?

Nutrien supplies crop inputs and farm services through four segments: Retail, Potash, Nitrogen and Phosphate. Retail sells crop nutrients, crop protection, seed and related agronomic and financing services to growers. Potash covers the mining and processing of potash fertiliser, while Nitrogen makes ammonia, urea and related nitrogen products, and Phosphate produces solid and liquid phosphate fertilisers and feed-grade phosphoric acid. Closelook's peer group places it with scored Basic Materials names from the US, mostly gold miners such as Barrick Mining and Agnico Eagle, reflecting sector and country rather than product overlap; the market more often compares it with fellow fertiliser producer Mosaic.

Where does Nutrien Ltd sit in the AI build-out?

Nutrien carries no seat in our index; it sits in the Basic Materials sector, Agricultural Inputs industry, outside the build-out sleeves the diary otherwise tracks. It holds no Closelook index seat, but it does carry a Closelook score, where the valuation module reads strongest and the quality module weakest among the modules the diary tracks.

Does Nutrien Ltd pay a dividend?

Nutrien Ltd has paid 2.19 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 2.84% on the 2026-09-18 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.55 USD on 2026-06-30. In fiscal 2025 the company paid 1.08 bn USD in dividends and bought back 561 m USD of its own shares, 81% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count fell 1.6% over the fiscal year. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What has Wall Street done on Nutrien Ltd recently?

The most recent analyst action on Nutrien Ltd on the Closelook wire is a initiation by KeyBanc on 2026-09-10 (at Sector Weight). 1 action on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 1 initiation. Analyst actions are third-party opinions recorded by the wire, not Closelook readings. The “The Street on this name” block on this page lists the moves; the full feeds are the analyst wire and the earnings wire.

Where has Closelook written about Nutrien Ltd?

Nutrien Ltd appears in 1 Closelook piece, most recently Daily Pulse: Three Ladders: Gold, Crypto, Materials (2026-08-24). The "Mentioned on Closelook" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for NTR, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Mentioned on Closelook 1 piece · newest: Daily Pulse, “Three Ladders: Gold, Crypto, Materials” (2026-08-24)

Mentioned on Closelook

Where NTR appears in the diary — 1 piece, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

Dailies

Related in the Closelook universe

then Agricultural Inputs, then Basic Materials. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.