Archer-Daniels-Midland (NYSE:ADM) Updates FY 2025 Earnings Guidance

Archer-Daniels-Midland (NYSE:ADM) issued an update on its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Tuesday morning. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 4.000-4.750 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of 4.670. The company issued revenue guidance of -. Archer-Daniels-Midland also updated its FY25 guidance to $4.00-4.75 EPS.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of equities research analysts recently issued reports on the stock. BMO Capital Markets decreased their price objective on shares of Archer-Daniels-Midland from $51.00 to $49.00 and set a “market perform” rating for the company in a report on Wednesday. Bank of America lowered Archer-Daniels-Midland from a “neutral” rating to an “underperform” rating and lowered their price objective for the company from $63.00 to $54.00 in a report on Tuesday, January 14th. Barclays decreased their target price on Archer-Daniels-Midland from $56.00 to $50.00 and set an “underweight” rating for the company in a research report on Tuesday, January 21st. Citigroup boosted their price objective on shares of Archer-Daniels-Midland from $51.00 to $55.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research note on Wednesday, December 4th. Finally, Stephens dropped their target price on shares of Archer-Daniels-Midland from $55.00 to $52.00 in a report on Tuesday. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating and seven have issued a hold rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $56.33.

Archer-Daniels-Midland Stock Performance

Shares of ADM traded down $0.66 during trading hours on Wednesday, reaching $46.83. 4,155,365 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 3,353,416. Archer-Daniels-Midland has a 1-year low of $45.14 and a 1-year high of $66.08. The stock has a market cap of $22.41 billion, a P/E ratio of 13.40 and a beta of 0.72. The stock’s fifty day moving average is $51.24 and its 200 day moving average is $55.69. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.34, a quick ratio of 0.84 and a current ratio of 1.40.

Archer-Daniels-Midland (NYSE:ADM) last released its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, February 4th. The company reported $1.14 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.07 by $0.07. The business had revenue of $21.50 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $22.77 billion. Archer-Daniels-Midland had a return on equity of 10.96% and a net margin of 2.07%. Archer-Daniels-Midland’s quarterly revenue was down 6.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $1.36 earnings per share. Equities research analysts anticipate that Archer-Daniels-Midland will post 4.72 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Archer-Daniels-Midland Increases Dividend

The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, March 11th. Investors of record on Tuesday, February 18th will be given a $0.51 dividend. This represents a $2.04 annualized dividend and a yield of 4.36%. This is a positive change from Archer-Daniels-Midland’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.50. Archer-Daniels-Midland’s dividend payout ratio is 57.14%.

Archer-Daniels-Midland declared that its Board of Directors has initiated a share buyback program on Wednesday, December 11th that authorizes the company to repurchase 100,000,000 shares. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to purchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are often an indication that the company’s management believes its stock is undervalued.

About Archer-Daniels-Midland

Archer-Daniels-Midland Company engages in the procurement, transportation, storage, processing, and merchandising of agricultural commodities, ingredients, flavors, and solutions in the United States, Switzerland, the Cayman Islands, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, the United Kingdom, and internationally. It operates in three segments: Ag Services and Oilseeds, Carbohydrate Solutions, and Nutrition.