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).
Archer-Daniels-Midland (NYSE:ADM) and Nutrien (NYSE:NTR) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and profitability.
Archer-Daniels-Midland has a net margin of 3.32% compared to Nutrien's net margin of 3.01%. Archer-Daniels-Midland's return on equity of 13.87% beat Nutrien's return on equity.
Archer-Daniels-Midland currently has a consensus price target of $67.50, suggesting a potential upside of 10.11%. Nutrien has a consensus price target of $67.32, suggesting a potential upside of 21.44%. Given Nutrien's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Nutrien is more favorable than Archer-Daniels-Midland.
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.
78.3% of Archer-Daniels-Midland shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.1% of Nutrien shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of Archer-Daniels-Midland shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of Nutrien shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
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 pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Nutrien pays an annual dividend of $2.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Archer-Daniels-Midland pays out 35.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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.
In the previous week, Archer-Daniels-Midland had 6 more articles in the media than Nutrien. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Archer-Daniels-Midland and 6 mentions for Nutrien. Nutrien's average media sentiment score of 1.57 beat Archer-Daniels-Midland's score of 1.14 indicating that Nutrien is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Archer-Daniels-Midland has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nutrien has a beta of 0.87, meaning that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Archer-Daniels-Midland beats Nutrien on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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