Agriculture Stocks To Consider - May 26th

Deere & Company, Steel Dynamics, Norfolk Southern, Apollo Global Management, and Ingersoll Rand are the five Agriculture stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Agriculture stocks are equity securities of companies engaged in the production, processing or distribution of farm‐related products and services—such as seed and fertilizer manufacturers, farm‐equipment makers, and agribusiness commodity traders. Investors buy these shares to gain exposure to the agricultural sector’s performance, which is influenced by factors like weather conditions, commodity prices and global food demand. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Agriculture stocks within the last several days.

Deere & Company (DE)

Deere & Co. engages in the manufacture and distribution of equipment used in agriculture, construction, forestry, and turf care. It operates through the following segments: Agriculture and Turf, Construction and Forestry, and Financial Services. The Agriculture and Turf segment focuses on the distribution and manufacture of a full line of agriculture and turf equipment and related service parts.

NYSE:DE traded down $5.82 during mid-day trading on Monday, reaching $509.83. 850,750 shares of the company's stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 1,409,902. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.94, a quick ratio of 1.98 and a current ratio of 2.22. Deere & Company has a one year low of $340.20 and a one year high of $533.78. The firm has a market capitalization of $138.37 billion, a PE ratio of 22.60, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.14 and a beta of 1.08. The business's fifty day simple moving average is $472.60 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $459.05.

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Steel Dynamics (STLD)

Steel Dynamics, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a steel producer and metal recycler in the United States. The Steel Operations segment offers hot rolled, cold rolled, and coated steel products; parallel flange beams and channel sections, flat bars, large unequal leg angles, and reinforcing steel bars, as well as standard strength carbon, intermediate alloy hardness, and premium grade rail products; engineered special-bar-quality products, merchant-bar-quality products, and other engineered round steel bars; channels, angles, flats, merchant rounds, and reinforcing steel bars; and specialty shapes and light structural steel products.

Shares of STLD traded down $4.57 during mid-day trading on Monday, reaching $125.32. The company had a trading volume of 3,180,388 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,524,201. The company's 50 day simple moving average is $125.37 and its 200 day simple moving average is $127.86. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.32, a quick ratio of 1.08 and a current ratio of 2.53. Steel Dynamics has a 1-year low of $103.17 and a 1-year high of $155.56. The company has a market capitalization of $18.60 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 12.79, a P/E/G ratio of 1.05 and a beta of 1.44.

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Norfolk Southern (NSC)

Norfolk Southern Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the rail transportation of raw materials, intermediate products, and finished goods in the United States. The company transports agriculture, forest, and consumer products comprising soybeans, wheat, corn, fertilizers, livestock and poultry feed, food products, food oils, flour, sweeteners, ethanol, lumber and wood products, pulp board and paper products, wood fibers, wood pulp, beverages, and canned goods; chemicals consist of sulfur and related chemicals, petroleum products comprising crude oil, chlorine and bleaching compounds, plastics, rubber, industrial chemicals, chemical wastes, sand, and natural gas liquids; metals and construction materials, such as steel, aluminum products, machinery, scrap metals, cement, aggregates, minerals, clay, transportation equipment, and military-related products; and automotive, including finished motor vehicles and automotive parts, as well as coal.

Shares of NSC traded up $0.66 during mid-day trading on Monday, reaching $240.30. 1,414,591 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 1,211,346. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.16, a quick ratio of 0.82 and a current ratio of 0.90. Norfolk Southern has a 52 week low of $201.63 and a 52 week high of $277.60. The business has a 50 day simple moving average of $227.14 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $241.78. The stock has a market capitalization of $54.17 billion, a PE ratio of 20.79, a PEG ratio of 2.31 and a beta of 1.30.

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Apollo Global Management (APO)

Apollo Global Management, Inc. is a private equity firm specializing in investments in credit, private equity, infrastructure, secondaries and real estate markets. The firm prefers to invest in private and public markets. The firm's private equity investments include traditional buyouts, recapitalization, distressed buyouts and debt investments in real estate, corporate partner buyouts, distressed asset, corporate carve-outs, middle market, growth, venture capital, turnaround, bridge, corporate restructuring, special situation, acquisition, and industry consolidation transactions.

APO traded up $0.16 during trading on Monday, hitting $130.97. 2,339,526 shares of the company's stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 3,951,925. Apollo Global Management has a fifty-two week low of $95.11 and a fifty-two week high of $189.49. The company has a quick ratio of 1.44, a current ratio of 1.44 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.33. The stock has a market cap of $74.85 billion, a P/E ratio of 17.92, a PEG ratio of 1.17 and a beta of 1.67. The business's 50 day moving average is $132.93 and its two-hundred day moving average is $152.02.

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Ingersoll Rand (IR)

Ingersoll Rand Inc. provides various mission-critical air, gas, liquid, and solid flow creation technologies services and solutions worldwide. It operates through two segments, Industrial Technologies and Services, and Precision and Science Technologies. The Industrial Technologies and Services segment designs, manufactures, markets, and services air and gas compression, vacuum, and blower products; fluid transfer equipment and loading systems; and power tools and lifting equipment, including associated aftermarket parts, consumables, air treatment equipment, controls, other accessories, and services under the under the Ingersoll Rand, Gardner Denver, Nash, CompAir, Elmo Rietschle brands, etc.

IR traded down $0.80 during trading on Monday, hitting $80.41. 3,790,820 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 2,606,507. The firm has a market cap of $32.44 billion, a P/E ratio of 39.03, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.50 and a beta of 1.42. The stock's fifty day moving average is $77.05 and its 200 day moving average is $87.45. The company has a quick ratio of 1.71, a current ratio of 2.29 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.46. Ingersoll Rand has a one year low of $65.61 and a one year high of $106.03.

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