# How Vylor (VYLR) compares with the whole market and its popular alternatives

> Source: BetterThanSPY research, https://betterthanspy.com/research/vylr
> Data as of October 30, 2026. Total returns include reinvested dividends. Past performance does not predict future results; nothing here is investment advice.

Built by QuantCommons' quantitative engine, this page is about relative opportunity, not data on VYLR alone. It places VYLR (Vylor Inc.) against 15 popular alternatives, its neighboring categories and the entire market of over 10,000 U.S.-listed stocks and ETFs, and surfaces what has done better on consistent outperformance, return for the risk taken and diversification. The result is a clearer view of where VYLR stands in the market, and of the alternatives worth a closer look.

Period covered: VYLR's full trading record. All returns include reinvested dividends. Data as of October 30, 2026.

## Key findings

- **Stock or market?:** VYLR rose 6.1% over the past month, 5.4 points ahead of the chemicals ETF MOO (VanEck Agribusiness ETF), which rose 0.6%. The S&P 500 fell 0.9%. Its chemical peers did not move as one over the past month: SMG (Scotts Miracle-Gro) rose 24.2%, while ICL (ICL Group) fell 8.8%.

## VYLR at a glance

This section summarizes the key facts about the stock, its returns over the months since it began trading and the risk it has carried, with dividends reinvested throughout.

- VYLR's deepest decline since it began trading in 2026 was 7.6%, in October 2026. It has not yet climbed back to that peak.
- VYLR is 5.9% below its all-time high.

- Type: Stock, Materials (Agricultural Inputs)
- Trading since: October 1, 2026
- Market value: $48B
- Worst decline ever: −7.6%, from October 13, 2026 to October 22, 2026; not yet back at its high

| Period | VYLR total return |
| --- | --- |
| 1 month | +6.1% |

## VYLR against its popular alternatives

The investments people most often weigh against VYLR, compared period by period and year by year.

### Has VYLR consistently beaten its popular alternatives?

This section compares VYLR with the investments people most often weigh against it, checking each one over one periods from one month to one month.

- Three of the 15 popular alternatives, SMG, LXU and CF, outperformed VYLR in its only timeframe.

| Investment | Periods ahead of VYLR | Verdict | Sharpe |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| VYLR: Vylor Inc. (this page) |  |  | — |
| SMG: The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company | 1/1 short-term | consistent | — |
| LXU: LSB Industries, Inc. | 1/1 short-term | consistent | — |
| CF: CF Industries Holdings, Inc. | 1/1 short-term | consistent | — |
| UAN: CVR Partners, LP | 0/1 short-term |  | — |
| [DE](https://betterthanspy.com/research/de): Deere & Company | 0/1 short-term |  | — |
| CTVA: Corteva, Inc. | 0/1 short-term |  | — |
| NTR: Nutrien Ltd. | 0/1 short-term |  | — |
| IPI: Intrepid Potash, Inc. | 0/1 short-term |  | — |
| AGCO: AGCO Corporation | 0/1 short-term |  | — |
| [ADM](https://betterthanspy.com/research/adm): Archer-Daniels-Midland Company | 0/1 short-term |  | — |
| CNH: CNH Industrial N.V. | 0/1 short-term |  | — |
| ICL: ICL Group Ltd | 0/1 short-term |  | — |
| BG: Bunge Global S.A. | 0/1 short-term |  | — |
| MOS: The Mosaic Company | 0/1 short-term |  | — |
| FMC: FMC Corporation | 0/1 short-term |  | — |

## Risk and diversification

How VYLR has fallen, how it held up in crashes beside the S&P 500 and its popular alternatives, and what moves independently of it.

### What were VYLR's worst declines?

A drawdown is the decline from a peak to the lowest point before a new high.

| Decline | Peak | Low | Back at the high | SPY over the same dates | Market event |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| −7.6% | October 13, 2026 | October 22, 2026 | not yet | −1.8% |  |

## Common questions

### What was VYLR's worst drawdown?

VYLR's deepest decline since it began trading in 2026 was 7.6%, in October 2026. It has not yet climbed back to that peak. Because VYLR launched in October 2026, that record does not include the dot-com bust, the 2008 financial crisis or eight other sell-offs.

### What are the best alternatives to VYLR?

Of the 15 popular alternatives we compared, three outperformed VYLR in its only timeframe, with dividends reinvested: SMG, LXU and CF.

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