what makes fmc so special?s not like the chemical companies we keep hearing about in the news, getting flooded because their plants are based in the gulf coast of texas and louisiana. most of their facilities are in the mid-atlantic states. the company as it's currently configured has two major divisions. there's the ag division where they make all sorts of crop protection products like pesticides, then there's the small but super fast growing lithium business where they make the kind of lithium compounds used to manufacture rechargeable batteries, which means the company has a hand in everything from cell phones to laptops to perhaps the most important, yes, electric cars. second, the key to the story as i mentioned before is that fmc has totally transformed in recent years they sold the soda ash, a real commodity business, and hydrogen business to focus on the products that carry fact margins. in 2015 they acquired a danish crop protection company for $1.8 billion which dramatically exposed them to growth in