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Basic Materials Sector

Sector health: Histogram of default probablility by Z-Score (what's this?)
(year refers to financial statement period ending date)

Sector's Industry list

Industry	#Companies	Avg M. Cap	Med. Z-Score
Adhesive	2	$1.4B	6.03175
Agricultural Chemicals	12	$11.1B	2.7535
Aluminum	2	$4.6B	0.882
Cement & Concrete Manufacturing	5	$2.8B	2.118
Coke Coal Mining	1	$11.1M	0.9957
Coloring Agent	1	$1.2B	1.1192
Commodity Chemicals	27	$7.1B	2.122
Construction Materials	9	$9.7B	2.0038
Copper Ore Mining	2	$5.9B	0.626
Diamond Mining	1	$1.1B	1.8859
Diversified Chemicals	4	$22.1B	2.8039
Fertilizer	5	$3.3B	0.9341
Forest & Wood Products	2	$1.7B	1.78025
Glass Containers & Packaging	1	$3.6B	0.9779
Gold	9	$4.5B	0.8875
Gold Mining	27	$3.0B	1.266
Industrial Biotechnology Chemicals	1	$94.5M	-12.0056
Integrated Mining	22	$11.3B	1.65135
Iron Ore Mining	3	$8.9B	0.5601
Iron, Steel Mills & Foundries	12	$1.0B	1.892
Logging & Sawmills	3	$1.3B	4.1097
Metal Service Centers	3	$1.9B	3.1383
Mining Machinery & Equipment Manufacturing	1	$2.8B	2.6372
Mining Support Activities	4	$376.1M	14.7099
Newsprint Mills	1	$425.2M	0.6965
Non-Paper Containers & Packaging	13	$4.3B	1.7938
Nonferrous Metal Processing	4	$830.1M	6.9417
Paint & Coating	5	$16.4B	3.5363
Paper Packaging	5	$10.6B	1.6635
Paper Products	7	$1.0B	2.6315
Plastic Container & Packaging	6	$2.3B	3.6645
Plastics	1	$116.0M	2.6515
Platinum Mining	1	$104.8M	0.0672
Precious Metals & Minerals	6	$3.0B	1.7548
Primary Aluminum Production	2	$1.3B	1.62265
Pulp Mills	2	$2.9B	1.27835
Secondary Smelting & Alloying of Aluminum	1	$95.4M	1.1436
Silver Mining	7	$1.1B	-20.62125
Specialty Chemicals	22	$1.7B	2.23125
Specialty Mining & Metals	10	$3.3B	1.6898
Steel	21	$3.5B	2.4554
Timber Tract Operations	1	$308.4M	0.7775
Wood Products	5	$539.9M	4.0333