A Spin-Off And A Second Catalyst Will Make These Shares Soar

With oil back below $50 a barrel, the Chinese economy slowing, and the dollar staying strong, this could look like a terrible time to invest anywhere near the materials space.

In fact, in the wake of petroleum prices dropping more than 50% in less than a year, deflation now stalks the entire global resource ecosystem.

Sell-offs have tanked the price of gold and silver, along with industrial metals like copper and nickel, and even commodities like cotton.

But there’s one materials play that will allow you to buck that trend.

It’s a “pure play” on metals that is all but guaranteed to return you double digits thanks to two major catalysts.

First, this company has announced a spin-off — it will soon split into two companies so it can free up its performance unit to achieve much faster growth.

And second, it just scored a $1 billion contract from a world leader in commercial aerospace.

Here’s how to invest in this materials firm before these twin catalysts send its shares soaring…

Aluminum Anniversary

We’re approaching the 130th anniversary of one of the key events in the history of the U.S. metals industry.

Back on July 9, 1886, a young Ohio inventor named Charles Martin Hall filed a patent that would in short order transform the industrial world – a way to produce low-cost aluminum by passing an electric current through a bath of alumina dissolved in cryolite.

More than a century later, the process Hall invented (and that was simultaneously discovered in France) remains the only real way to produce industrial-grade aluminum at commercially viable speeds.

And Hall did more than just co-invent aluminum manufacturing. He also founded one of the nation’s oldest materials firms – Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA).

This firm’s impact cannot be overestimated.

Alcoa’s aluminum, prized for its light weight and corrosion resistance, essentially made possible the booming automotive and commercial aircraft industries.