Commercial Metals Company (CMC) — chart, structure and Closelook read

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Company snapshot — Commercial Metals Company

CMC 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
Commercial Metals Company recycles scrap metal and turns it into finished steel products, mainly reinforcing bar, merchant bar and wire rod, for construction customers. It runs steel operations in North America and Europe alongside a smaller group of adjacent businesses making fabricated rebar and related construction products. It is based in Irving, Texas.
Where it sits in the stack
Commercial Metals has no seat in our index; it belongs to the Industrials sector of our universe, grouped with other US industrial names the diary scores. Its business sits upstream of construction activity rather than inside the AI build-out, so it is tracked as a broader industrial name, not a stack constituent.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group places it with other scored Industrials names from the US, including Allegheny Technologies and Applied Industrial Technologies, reflecting shared sector and country rather than shared end markets. The market also compares it with Nucor, another integrated steel producer.
Why Closelook tracks it
Commercial Metals is not a Rubin constituent and carries no index seat, but it does carry a Closelook score across several modules. Capital allocation is its strongest module, quality its weakest; the diary has not yet quoted it in any edition.
What the diary watches
Whether construction demand and scrap input costs move together or apart, since that spread shapes the margin the diary is watching for signs of change.

Commercial Metals Company (CMC) trades on US exchanges, classified under Industrials.

The Closelook company score reads 52/100 composite (momentum 37, quality 35, valuation 62) 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 CMC, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Metal Fabrication · US · 3 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Metal Fabrication · US

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

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

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 55/100 · S&P 500 fund at 58, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-17
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 94th percentile of the window, +2.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-17
  • Sector × region Industrials in US: −1.8% week · −9.5% month · −6.0% quarter · −5.2% yearThe Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from XLI.US; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-09-16
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.00 · 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 → 2026-09-17

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-18

Quick answers

What is Commercial Metals Company (CMC)?

Commercial Metals Company trades as CMC on the US exchange (US) and is classified under Industrials in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-18.

Is CMC in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Commercial Metals Company is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-18.

What is Commercial Metals Company's Closelook composite score?

52 out of 100, with momentum 37, quality 35 and valuation 62 sub-scores, as of 2026-09-18. Scores are Closelook's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does CMC trade against its moving averages?

Mixed moving-average stack: Trades -2% vs the 50-day and -3.8% vs the 200-day average, 20.4% below the 52-week high and +27.9% off the 52-week low; a death cross printed 18 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-17 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Commercial Metals Company do?

Commercial Metals Company recycles scrap metal and turns it into finished steel products, mainly reinforcing bar, merchant bar and wire rod, for construction customers. It runs steel operations in North America and Europe alongside a smaller group of adjacent businesses making fabricated rebar and related construction products. It is based in Irving, Texas. Closelook's peer group places it with other scored Industrials names from the US, including Allegheny Technologies and Applied Industrial Technologies, reflecting shared sector and country rather than shared end markets. The market also compares it with Nucor, another integrated steel producer.

Where does Commercial Metals Company sit in the AI build-out?

Commercial Metals has no seat in our index; it belongs to the Industrials sector of our universe, grouped with other US industrial names the diary scores. Its business sits upstream of construction activity rather than inside the AI build-out, so it is tracked as a broader industrial name, not a stack constituent. Commercial Metals is not a Rubin constituent and carries no index seat, but it does carry a Closelook score across several modules. Capital allocation is its strongest module, quality its weakest; the diary has not yet quoted it in any edition.

What does this page show?

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

Related in the Closelook universe

then Metal Fabrication, then Industrials. 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.