Consumer Defensive
Archer-Daniels-Midland Company(ADM)
Live Price
Offline$80.24
+1.70% today
1Y Change
+49.64%
Window
Jun 20, 2025 โ Jun 8, 2026
- Market Cap
- $36.75B
- Revenue Growth
- -6.2%
- EPS Growth
- -39.1%
- Dividend Yield
- 2.7%
Coverage: 242 bars ยท Jun 20, 2025 โ Jun 8, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Archer-Daniels-Midland Company (ADM) is a Consumer Defensive stock with a market cap of $36.75B and listed on NYSE. The stock last traded around $80.24 and up 49.6% across the available one-year price window (Jun 20, 2025 โ Jun 8, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of -6.2%, EPS growth of -39.1%, a dividend yield of 2.7%. What stands out right now is revenue -6.2%, EPS -39.1%, free cash flow +242.6% with operating margin 1.3% and ROIC 2.6%. The dividend matters to the case here, with a current yield around 2.7%. Valuation already assumes a fairly strong business story at P/E 34.2 and price/sales 0.5. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a turnaround or cyclical reset than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines ADM price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Consumer Defensive peers on this page.
Sector Context
How this name stacks up against nearby peers on first-pass metrics.
Revenue Growth
Below sector median
-6.2% vs +8.4% peer median
Operating Margin
Below sector median
+1.3% vs +10.1% peer median
P/E
Above sector median
34.2 vs 14.0 peer median
What Changed This Quarter
Latest report context and the signals most likely to have changed the story.
Latest report is on the board
2026 was reported on May 5, 2026, but the surprise data is still limited.
The operating picture looks softer than before
Revenue is at -6.2% and EPS is at -39.1%, with operating margin around 1.3%.
Shareholder return is still part of the story
The stock is still offering a dividend yield around 2.7%, which matters if the thesis depends on income as much as growth.
Earnings Reaction Memory
How the stock has tended to move after recent reports.
Across the last 3 reported quarters, the stock averaged -0.1% over the next 5 trading days and finished higher after 2 of those reports.
View quarter-by-quarter reaction table
| Quarter | EPS ฮ | 1D | 5D | 20D |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2026 May 5, 2026 | โ | -1.5% | +1.9% | +6.2% |
2026 Feb 3, 2026 | +9.2% | -0.1% | +1.8% | -0.3% |
2025 Nov 4, 2025 | +8.4% | -6.4% | -4.1% | -0.5% |
Benchmark Comparison
Normalized Performance vs SPY
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ADM Max Drawdown
-12.79%
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Company Overview
Archer-Daniels-Midland Company
New York Stock Exchange
Archer-Daniels-Midland Company procures, transports, stores, processes, and merchandises agricultural commodities, products, and ingredients in the United States, Switzerland, Cayman Islands, Brazil, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and internationally. The company operates through three segments: Ag Services and Oilseeds, Carbohydrate Solutions, and Nutrition. It procures, stores, cleans, and transports agricultural raw materials, such as oilseeds, corn, wheat, milo, oats, and barley. 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, and natural health and nutrition products, including 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.
- Leadership
- Juan Ricardo Luciano
- IPO Date
- Mar 17, 1980
- Employees
- 42.4k
- Street Address
- 77 West Wacker Drive
- Mailing
- Chicago, IL, 60601
- Region
- Chicago, IL, US
- Reporting Currency
- USD
- Investor Line
- 312 634 8100
- Last Updated
- May 6, 2026
Key Fundamentals
Valuation, growth, profitability, and balance sheet signals.
Valuation
- P/E
- 34.2
- EV/EBITDA
- 11.4
- Price/Sales
- 0.5
- Price/Book
- 1.6
Growth
- Revenue
- -6.2%
- EPS
- -39.1%
- Free Cash Flow
- +242.6%
Profitability
- Gross Margin
- 5.8%
- Operating Margin
- 1.3%
- Net Margin
- 1.3%
- ROE
- 4.8%
- ROIC
- 2.6%
Balance Sheet
- Debt/Equity
- 0.37
- Current Ratio
- 11.20
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