ADM vs. NTR, CTVA, BG, INGR, DAR, FDP, AGRO, LMNR, ALCO, and BUD
Should you be buying Archer-Daniels-Midland stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Archer-Daniels-Midland include Nutrien (NTR), Corteva (CTVA), Bunge Global (BG), Ingredion (INGR), Darling Ingredients (DAR), Fresh Del Monte Produce (FDP), Adecoagro (AGRO), Limoneira (LMNR), Alico (ALCO), and Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV (BUD).
Nutrien (NYSE:NTR) and Archer-Daniels-Midland (NYSE:ADM) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Nutrien pays an annual dividend of $2.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Archer-Daniels-Midland pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Nutrien pays out 126.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Archer-Daniels-Midland pays out 35.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Nutrien has raised its dividend for 6 consecutive years and Archer-Daniels-Midland has raised its dividend for 52 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Archer-Daniels-Midland had 3 more articles in the media than Nutrien. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Archer-Daniels-Midland and 17 mentions for Nutrien. Nutrien's average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat Archer-Daniels-Midland's score of 0.64 indicating that Archer-Daniels-Midland is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Archer-Daniels-Midland received 224 more outperform votes than Nutrien when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.78% of users gave Archer-Daniels-Midland an outperform vote while only 62.89% of users gave Nutrien an outperform vote.
Nutrien has a beta of 0.89, suggesting that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Archer-Daniels-Midland has a beta of 0.78, suggesting that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Nutrien presently has a consensus target price of $67.32, suggesting a potential upside of 13.50%. Archer-Daniels-Midland has a consensus target price of $67.50, suggesting a potential upside of 10.86%. Given Archer-Daniels-Midland's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Nutrien is more favorable than Archer-Daniels-Midland.
63.1% of Nutrien shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.3% of Archer-Daniels-Midland shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.1% of Nutrien shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Archer-Daniels-Midland shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Archer-Daniels-Midland has higher revenue and earnings than Nutrien. Archer-Daniels-Midland is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nutrien, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Archer-Daniels-Midland has a net margin of 3.32% compared to Archer-Daniels-Midland's net margin of 3.01%. Nutrien's return on equity of 13.87% beat Archer-Daniels-Midland's return on equity.
Summary
Archer-Daniels-Midland beats Nutrien on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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