Archer Daniels Midland Co. (NYSE:ADM) saw a downside of -1.59% to close Tuesday at $76.07 after subtracting -$1.23 on the day. The 5-day average trading volume is 2,107,220 shares of the company’s common stock. It has gained $80.14 in the past week and touched a new high 1 time within the past 5 days. An average of 3,257,270 shares of the company has been traded in the last 20 days, and the 50-day average volume stands at 2,837,288.
ADM’s 1-month performance is -5.89% or -$4.76 on its low of $75.83 reached on 09/26/23. The company’s shares have touched a 52-week low of $69.92 and high of $98.28, with the stock’s rally to the 52-week high happening on 01/03/23. YTD, ADM has lost -18.07% or -$16.78 and has reached a new high 1 time. However, the current price is down -22.60% from the 52-week high price.
Insider Transactions
ADM stock investors last saw insider trading activity on Jul 26.Strader Fruit Molly L (Vice Pres., Corp. Controller) most recently sold 1,455 shares at $86.80 per share on Jul 26. This transaction cost the insider $126,294. Senior Vice President, FINDLAY D CAMERON, sold 26,197 shares at a price of $93.52 on Dec 13. Then, on Dec 12, Senior Vice President FINDLAY D CAMERON sold 26,198 shares at a price of $92.64 per share. This transaction amounted to $2,426,921.
Valuation Metrics
ADM stock has a beta of 0.83. Moving on to other valuation ratios, the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio is 0.41 while the price-to-book (PB) in the most recent quarter is 1.63, with the price to cash flow ratio at 11.27.
Archer Daniels Midland Co.’s quick ratio for the period ended June 29 was 1.00, with the current ratio over the same period at 1.63. As well, the company’s long term debt to equity for the quarter ending June 29 was 0.36, while the total debt to equity was 0.39.. In terms of profitability, the gross margin trailing 12 months is 6.84%. The trailing 12-month EBITDA margin is 4.63% while for the period ending June 29, Archer Daniels Midland Co.’s operating margin was 3.47%. The firm’s gross profit as reported stood at $7.57 billion against revenue of $101.56 billion.
Earnings Surprise
For the quarterly period ending June 29 this year, Net income and sales went up compared to those figures reported in the previous quarter. Net income shrunk -33.33% to $927.0 million, while revenue of $1.17 billion was -26.21% off the previous quarter. Analysts expected ADM to announce $1.6 per share in earnings in its latest quarter, but it posted $1.89, representing a 18.10% surprise. EBITDA for the quarter stood at more than $1.3 billion. ADM stock balance sheet for the quarter ending June 29 shows that total liabilities totaled 30.52 billion, with total debt at $9.83 billion. Shareholders hold equity totaling $536.1 million.
Let’s look briefly at Archer Daniels Midland Co. (ADM) price momentum from a technical analysis perspective. The 9-day relative strength index as at close on 26 September was 26.84% to suggest the stock is trending oversold, with historical volatility in this time period at 17.18%.
The stock’s 5-day moving average is $77.72, reflecting a -3.83% or -$3.03 change from its current price. ADM is currently trading -5.94% above its 20-day SMA, +1.40% above its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is away from the SMA50 by -4.39% and SMA200 by-18.35%.
Stochastic %K and %D was 7.44% and 21.78% and the average true range (ATR) pointed at 1.25. The RSI (14) points at 32.24%, while the 14-day stochastic is at 4.67% with the period’s ATR at 1.29. The stock’s 9-day MACD Oscillator is pointing at -1.76 and -1.95 on the 14-day charts.
Analyst Ratings
In the most recent analyst report for Archer Daniels Midland Co. (NYSE: ADM), ROTH MKM launched coverage with a Buy rating. Analysts offering their rating for ADM stock have a consensus rating for the stock as Overweight. Currently, 0 brokerage advisors rate ADM as a “sell,”, while 7 advise that investors “Hold.” 1 analysts have rated the stock as underweight. 2 rates the stock as overweight while 7 have offered a “buy” rating.
What is ADM’s price target for the next 12 months?
Analysts have a consensus price target ranging from a low of $85.00 and a high of $117.00, with their median price target at $97.75. Looking at these predictions, the average price target given by analysts is for Archer Daniels Midland Co. (ADM) stock is $98.82.
