Archer Daniels Midland Co (NYSE: ADM): Reassessing Prospects

Archer Daniels Midland Co (ADM) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $46.59, with 3.37 million shares of worth about $157.07 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -23.30% during that period and on February 27, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -0.83%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 478.00M shares, out of which, 476.07M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of 0.09% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -7.91%. Year-to-date (YTD), ADM shares are showing a performance of -7.78% which decreased to -12.38% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $44.92 but also hit the highest price of $66.08 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Archer Daniels Midland Co shares is 3.49 million. The stock is currently trading -1.41% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -5.60% for SMA50 and it goes to -17.55% lower than SMA200.

Archer Daniels Midland Co (NYSE: ADM) currently have 478.00M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 82.29% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $22.35B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.66. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 12.90, while it has posted earnings per share of $3.61 in the same period. Its PEG reads 22.62 and has Quick Ratio of 0.81 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.52. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for ADM, volatility over the week remained 2.94% while standing at 2.63% over the month.

Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -6.66% while it is estimated to increase by 7.88% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 0.57% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 8.39% made by the stock over the past 5-years.

Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by BofA Securities on January 14, 2025 offering an Underperform rating for the stock and assigned a target price range of between $63 and $54 to it. Coverage by Stephens stated Archer Daniels Midland Co (ADM) stock as an Equal-weight in their note to investors on December 11, 2024, suggesting a price target of $55 for the stock. Stock get a Hold rating from Stifel on January 22, 2024.

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