Nasdaq or NYSE related Basic Materials sector Top Companies List by Market Cap as of August 2026

DRDGOLD is a South African gold producer and a world leader in the recovery of gold from the retreatment of surface tailings. At the end of FY2018, DRDGOLD provided jobs for 2 304 people, including 878 permanent employees.

SYLVAMO CORPORATION is the paper manufacturing company. It produces and supplies printing paper in Latin America, Europe, and North America. The company offers uncoated freesheet for paper products, such as cutsize and offset paper, and markets pulp, aseptic, and liquid packaging board, as well as coated unbleached kraft papers. It also produces hardwood pulp, including bleached hardwood kraft and bleached eucalyptus kraft; bleached softwood kraft; and bleached chemi-thermomechanical pulp. The headquartered is in USA.

Compass Minerals produces salt, plant nutrients and magnesium chloride for distribution company. It also provide secure records storage in a retired mine in the U.K, products from compass minerals serve a variety of applications in industrial, agricultural, commercial and consumer markets. The headquarters is in USA.

Koppers Holdings is an Integrated Global provider of treated wood products, wood treatment chemicals and carbon compounds. The company products and services are used in a variety of niche applications in a diverse range of end markets including the railroad, specialty chemical, utility, residential lumber, agriculture, aluminum, steel, rubber and construction industries. The headquarters is in USA.