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This huge global agricultural retailer is up nearly 50% for the year, putting Agrium at No. 4 on our list of the best materials stocks of 2012.
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Shares of Agrium (NYSE: AGU) are up 48.65% year to date. The company is the largest agricultural retailer in the world, with 1,250 stores, and competes with some of the companies with the largest market capitalization in this space, such as CF Industries (CF +0.01%), PotashCorp (POT +0.00%), and Mosaic (MOS +0.01%). In this video, Motley Fool materials analyst Taylor Muckerman tells us what advantages Agrium has over its competition, and how it is benefiting from the current imbalance in supply and demand.