Norfolk Southern, Ingersoll Rand, Deere & Company, Apollo Global Management, Bloom Energy, Chubb, and Eastman Chemical are the seven Agriculture stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Agriculture stocks are shares of companies whose core businesses involve crop and livestock production, farm equipment manufacturing, agrochemicals (such as fertilizers and pesticides), seeds and biotechnology, or food processing and distribution. By investing in these equities, investors gain exposure to global food demand and commodity cycles—potentially hedging against inflation—while also taking on risks from weather events, regulatory changes and price volatility. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Agriculture stocks within the last several days.
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.
NYSE NSC traded up $2.72 during mid-day trading on Monday, hitting $277.57. The stock had a trading volume of 1,231,523 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,534,478. Norfolk Southern has a 52-week low of $201.63 and a 52-week high of $288.11. The company has a market cap of $62.35 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 18.75, a P/E/G ratio of 2.44 and a beta of 1.31. The company has a 50 day simple moving average of $259.97 and a 200 day simple moving average of $244.71. The company has a quick ratio of 0.71, a current ratio of 0.79 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.11.
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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.
Ingersoll Rand stock traded up $3.61 during mid-day trading on Monday, hitting $78.59. 3,286,478 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 2,951,146. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.47, a current ratio of 2.29 and a quick ratio of 1.63. The business's 50 day simple moving average is $84.19 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $82.77. The company has a market capitalization of $31.71 billion, a P/E ratio of 61.40, a PEG ratio of 3.15 and a beta of 1.41. Ingersoll Rand has a 12-month low of $65.61 and a 12-month high of $106.03.
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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.
Shares of DE stock traded up $8.76 during mid-day trading on Monday, hitting $509.74. 500,998 shares of the company's stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 1,338,800. Deere & Company has a fifty-two week low of $340.20 and a fifty-two week high of $533.78. The stock has a 50-day simple moving average of $512.25 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $487.73. The company has a quick ratio of 1.89, a current ratio of 2.11 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.76. The stock has a market cap of $138.05 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 24.66, a PEG ratio of 3.18 and a beta of 1.06.
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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.
Shares of APO stock traded up $3.19 during mid-day trading on Monday, hitting $141.48. 1,706,472 shares of the company's stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 3,601,384. Apollo Global Management has a fifty-two week low of $95.11 and a fifty-two week high of $189.49. The stock has a 50-day simple moving average of $140.63 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $142.07. The company has a quick ratio of 1.36, a current ratio of 1.36 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.34. The stock has a market cap of $80.85 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 24.77, a PEG ratio of 1.56 and a beta of 1.62.
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Bloom Energy (BE)
Bloom Energy Corporation designs, manufactures, sells, and installs solid-oxide fuel cell systems for on-site power generation in the United States and internationally. The company offers Bloom Energy Server, a solid oxide technology that converts fuel, such as natural gas, biogas, hydrogen, or a blend of these fuels into electricity through an electrochemical process without combustion.
Bloom Energy stock traded down $1.06 during midday trading on Monday, reaching $35.66. The stock had a trading volume of 5,196,337 shares, compared to its average volume of 7,036,478. The stock's 50-day simple moving average is $24.52 and its 200 day simple moving average is $22.46. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.18, a quick ratio of 3.21 and a current ratio of 4.99. Bloom Energy has a twelve month low of $9.02 and a twelve month high of $39.09. The stock has a market capitalization of $8.28 billion, a PE ratio of 891.72 and a beta of 3.28.
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Chubb (CB)
Chubb Limited provides insurance and reinsurance products worldwide. The company's North America Commercial P&C Insurance segment offers commercial property, casualty, workers' compensation, package policies, risk management, financial lines, marine, construction, environmental, medical risk, cyber risk, surety, and casualty; and group accident and health insurance to large, middle market, and small commercial businesses.
NYSE:CB traded down $0.31 during mid-day trading on Monday, hitting $267.09. The company had a trading volume of 586,632 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,813,457. The company has a current ratio of 0.28, a quick ratio of 0.28 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.18. Chubb has a 1 year low of $252.16 and a 1 year high of $306.91. The business has a fifty day simple moving average of $282.23 and a 200-day simple moving average of $282.51. The firm has a market capitalization of $106.49 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 11.79, a PEG ratio of 3.03 and a beta of 0.53.
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Eastman Chemical (EMN)
Eastman Chemical Company operates as a specialty materials company in the United States, China, and internationally. The company's Additives & Functional Products segment offers amine derivative-based building blocks, intermediates for surfactants, metam-based soil fumigants, and organic acid-based solutions; specialty coalescent and solvents, paint additives, and specialty polymers; and heat transfer and aviation fluids.
Shares of NYSE:EMN traded up $1.96 during trading on Monday, hitting $60.75. The company's stock had a trading volume of 2,281,737 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,549,185. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.80, a quick ratio of 0.79 and a current ratio of 1.72. Eastman Chemical has a fifty-two week low of $56.78 and a fifty-two week high of $114.50. The stock's 50-day moving average price is $77.71 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $84.48. The company has a market capitalization of $7.01 billion, a PE ratio of 8.53, a PEG ratio of 1.69 and a beta of 1.21.
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