ADM - Archer Daniels Midland Company

NYSE · Consumer Defensive · Farm Products

$80.24

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End of day · Jun 12, 2026, 12:00 AM

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Archer-Daniels-Midland Company procures, transports, stores, processes, and merchandises agricultural commodities, products, and ingredients in the United States, Switzerland, the Cayman Islands, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, the United Kingdom, and internationally. The company operates in three segments: Ag Services and Oilseeds, Carbohydrate Solutions, and Nutrition. It originates, merchandises, stores, and transports agricultural raw materials, such as oilseeds and soft seeds. The company also engages in the agricultural commodity and feed product import, export, and distribution; and structured trade finance activities. In addition, it offers vegetable oils and protein meals; ingredients for the food, feed, energy, and industrial customers; crude vegetable oils, salad oils, margarine, shortening, and other food products; and partially refined oils to produce biodiesel and glycols for use in chemicals, paints, and other industrial products. Further, the company provides peanuts, peanut-derived ingredients, and cotton cellulose pulp; sweeteners, corn and wheat starches, syrup, glucose, wheat flour, and dextrose; alcohol and other food and animal feed ingredients; ethyl alcohol and ethanol; corn gluten feed and meal; distillers' grains; and citric acids. Additionally, the company provides natural flavors, flavor systems, natural colors, proteins, emulsifiers, soluble fiber, polyols, hydrocolloids, probiotics, prebiotics, enzymes, and botanical extracts; and other specialty food and feed ingredients; edible beans; formula feeds, and animal health and nutrition products; and contract and private label pet treats and foods. It also offers futures commission merchant; commodity brokerage services; cash margins and securities pledged to commodity exchange clearinghouses; and cash pledged as security under certain insurance arrangements. The company was founded in 1902 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

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ADM - Archer Daniels Midland Company

Consumer Defensive

ADM's had one of the more impressive runs in the last year. Looking back at last spring, it was stuck in the high 40s and low 50s, but there was a pretty steady grind up through summer and then a sharper push from January on. Now it's just off recent highs, trading at 69.23, and I think that's pretty close to fair in the near term. I'm leaning cautious here and actually expect some mean reversion, with a target of 62.00 over the next couple months. The main reason is that earnings quality hasn't really kept pace with the stock move. Their input costs are more favorable than last year, for sure, but volumes and pricing are getting less predictable. Margins looked stronger in the last print, but I'm not convinced it's sustainable given how much of the recent gains have been sentiment and macro rotation chasing ag and food exposure. Plus, ADM's been a pretty consensus defensive play for a while and I just don't see a big new leg up from here without another big catalyst. If I'm wrong, it's likely because I'm underestimating their ability to keep costs low or pull off a surprise M&A deal. That's the risk: a bolt on acquisition or a major beat could keep the momentum going longer than I expect. But with the run from the 50s to low 70s, I think a lot of good news is priced in already. Big thing to watch: next quarter's guidance. If they pull back on forward guidance or show any cracks in demand, this could go south fast. On the other hand, if they actually accelerate, I could get run over here. So I'm not shorting, just staying on the sidelines for now and watching for a better entry closer to 62.00.

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$69.23

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$62.00

Jul 4, 2026

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122 to 17261

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