Following The Money: Institution’s Growing Stake In Archer Daniels Midland Co (NYSE: ADM)

Archer Daniels Midland Co (ADM) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $46.52, with 5.54 million shares of worth about $257.75 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -23.06% during that period and on March 20, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -0.87%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 478.00M shares, out of which, 476.05M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of -1.54% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 1.04%. Year-to-date (YTD), ADM shares are showing a performance of -7.92% which decreased to -22.99% 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 3.84 million. The stock is currently trading -2.24% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -3.98% for SMA50 and it goes to -16.14% lower than SMA200.

Archer Daniels Midland Co (NYSE: ADM) currently have 478.00M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 82.00% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $22.32B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.67. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 12.88, while it has posted earnings per share of $3.61 in the same period. Its PEG reads 22.59 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 2.41% while standing at 3.04% over the month.

Analysts are in expectations that Archer Daniels Midland Co (ADM) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 0.68 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 1.0 and it is 4.7 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 0.6 which is 0.85 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of 1.46 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -9.07% while it is estimated to increase by 9.58% 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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