Low visibility, big business: 5 raw material supplying stocks with an upside potential of 16 to 45% in a year

As sector after sector benefits from the tailwinds of higher economic growth, many small- and medium-sized companies are making a comeback. Many of these are companies making industrial consumables. Their performance is based on real business – and not only because of the bull run on the stock markets. Many of them are not names heard on the street every day, as they don't deal in consumer-facing goods. So a company making graphite electrodes or abrasives, or a supplier of electro-minerals may not have been talked about as performers in the current bull run. But the fact is that they have given decent returns.