Archer Daniels Midland
New York symbol ADM, is one of the world's largest agricultural companies. Its five largest products are protein meal (animal feed), vegetable oil, ethanol, cocoa products and wheat flour. It sells these products to food processors and industrial companies.
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ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND CO. $36 (New York symbol ADM; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 637.3 million; Market cap: $22.9 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.3; Dividend yield: 1.8%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.adm.com) processes corn, wheat, soybeans, canola, peanuts and other crops into a wide variety of food ingredients, such as flour, oils and sweeteners. The company mainly …read more »
Archer Daniels Midland Co., New York symbol ADM, processes corn, wheat, soybeans, canola, flaxseed, peanuts, cocoa and other crops into a wide variety of food ingredients, such as flour, oils and sweeteners. It mainly sells its products to firms that make and process food for both humans and animals. The company is also the largest maker of ethanol from corn …read more »
Ethanol is a liquid alcohol obtained from fermenting sugar, or starch converted to sugar. In Canada and the U.S., fuel ethanol is made from grains, such as corn, wheat and barley. Small quantities have been made on an experimental basis from low-cost agricultural cellulosic biomass, like trees and grasses. This has led to two different groups of companies amongst ethanol …read more »
ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND CO. $42 (New York symbol ADM; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 643.6 million; Market cap: $27.0 billion; WSSF Rating: Above average) currently accounts for about 15% of the United States’ ethanol production. Fuel companies add ethanol to gasoline to cut harmful emissions.
Due to government subsidies, ethanol production has soared in the past two …read more »
ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND CO. $41 (New York symbol ADM; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 642.9 million; Market cap: $26.4 billion; WSSF Rating: Above average) has gained nearly 15% in the past month, despite weaker prices for biofuels, including ethanol from corn. That’s because lower prices have slowed or postponed construction of rival ethanol production plants, which …read more »
ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND CO. $36 (New York symbol ADM; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 652.7 million; Market cap: $23.5 billion; WSSF Rating: Above average) earned $0.56 a share in its third fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2007, up 5.7% from $0.53 a year earlier. If you disregard a one-time gain, earnings fell 3.8%, to $0.51 a …read more »
ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND CO. $39 (New York symbol ADM; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; WSSF Rating: Above average) is currently building new plants in the United States and Brazil to meet growing demand for alternative fuels, particularly biodiesel fuel made from soybeans.
Right now, only about 3% of vehicles in the United States use diesel fuel. But that figure …read more »
ARCHER DANIEL MIDLAND CO. $25 (New York symbol ADM; WSSF Rating: Above average) has gained over 40% in the past six months as higher oil prices have spurred new interest in ethanol, a gasoline additive made from corn that improves fuel efficiency and cuts harmful emissions.
ADM is the world’s largest supplier of ethanol, and is now building more plants to …read more »
