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CF Industries (CF): Made in Louisiana, Priced in the Gulf, Initiating at Overweight

Initiating at Overweight with a Dec-27 price target of $120. What pays when the Gulf burns is nitrogen made from US gas and sold at a price set by stranded Gulf supply and European gas, and CF is the purest way to own it.

By K2 Research TeamMar 2, 2026PDF · 9 pages

Initiating at Overweight with a Dec-27 price target of $120. What pays when the Gulf burns is nitrogen made from US gas and sold at a price set by stranded Gulf supply and European gas, and CF is the purest way to own it.

What’s inside

  1. Initiating at Overweight, Dec-27 PT $120
  2. The spread is the thesis
  3. The trade, corrected
  4. Summary investment thesis and valuation
  5. Ammonia cash cost by gas basis
  6. Capital allocation and capex update
  7. 4Q25 summary
  8. CF Industries Dec-27 PT methodology
  9. CF Industries earnings trends
  10. Then and now: which shock is this?
  11. The spread: why Louisiana gas is the asset
  12. Not all fertiliser is nitrogen
  13. Risks to rating and price target
  14. What would make us wrong?
  15. Signposts