Archer-Daniels-Midland Company (ADM) — Fundamentals Overview

By Blake Campbell • Tuesday, October 31 15:14 • Permanent Link

More and more people are talking about Archer-Daniels-Midland Company over the last few weeks. Is it worth buying the Packaged Foods stock at a price of $71.58? Only time will tell. The information below will give you a basic idea of what this investment may entail:

Archer-Daniels-Midland Company has moved -26.0% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 10.0%
ADM has an average analyst rating of buy and is -25.91% away from its mean target price of $96.62 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $7.19
Archer-Daniels-Midland Company has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 10.0 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $6.6 and its forward P/E ratio is 10.8
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 1.52 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
Archer-Daniels-Midland Company is part of the Consumer Staples sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 24.36 and an average P/B of 4.29
ADM has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of -16.9% and gross profit margins of 0.1%
The company has a free cash flow of $2.26 Billion, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
Archer-Daniels-Midland Company procures, transports, stores, processes, and merchandises agricultural commodities, products, and ingredients in the United States, Switzerland, the Cayman Islands, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, the United Kingdom, and internationally. The company operates in three segments: Ag Services and Oilseeds, Carbohydrate Solutions, and Nutrition. It originates, merchandises, stores, and transports agricultural raw materials, such as oilseeds and soft seeds. The company also engages in the agricultural commodity and feed product import, export, and distribution; and structured trade finance activities. In addition, it offers vegetable oils and protein meals; ingredients for the food, feed, energy, and industrial customers; crude vegetable oils, salad oils, margarine, shortening, and other food products; and partially refined oils to produce biodiesel and glycols for use in chemicals, paints, and other industrial products. Further, the company provides peanuts, peanut-derived ingredients, and cotton cellulose pulp; sweeteners, corn and wheat starches, syrup, glucose, wheat flour, and dextrose; alcohol and other food and animal feed ingredients; ethyl alcohol and ethanol; corn gluten feed and meal; distillers' grains; and citric acids. Additionally, the company provides natural flavors, flavor systems, natural colors, proteins, emulsifiers, soluble fiber, polyols, hydrocolloids, probiotics, prebiotics, enzymes, and botanical extracts; and other specialty food and feed ingredients; edible beans; formula feeds, and animal health and nutrition products; and contract and private label pet treats and foods. It also offers futures commission merchant; commodity brokerage services; cash margins and securities pledged to commodity exchange clearinghouses; and cash pledged as security under certain insurance arrangements. The company was founded in 1902 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

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