Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) Stock Price, Fundamentals & Analysis

Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) is a US-listed stock in the Consumer Defensive sector, specifically the Farm Products industry. Headquartered in Chicago, United States, the company employs around 40,798 people.

What ADM does

Archer Daniels Midland provides human and animal nutrition ingredients 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. Its activities include the origination, merchandising, transportation, and storage of agricultural raw materials, as well as crushing and processing oilseeds such as soybeans, cottonseed, sunflower seed, canola, rapeseed, and flaxseed. The company also produces and markets vegetable oils and oilseed protein meals for food, feed, energy, and industrial customers, supplies peanuts and peanut-derived ingredients, and manufactures cotton cellulose pulp.

Key numbers explained

• The share price is 82.15 USD, down -0.23% today, with a 52-week range of 55.58 – 88.75 and a 33.9% gain over the past year.
• The market capitalisation — the total value of all shares — is 39.59B USD.
• The trailing P/E ratio of 22.4 tells you how many dollars investors pay per one dollar of trailing earnings; the forward P/E of 14.5 is based on expected earnings instead.
• Trailing earnings per share are 3.66 USD, with a profit margin of 2.2% and an operating margin of 4% — thin margins are typical for high-volume agribusiness.
• The dividend yield of 2.53% means the annual dividend equals about 2.53% of the share price, with 56% of earnings paid out as dividends.
• Revenue over the trailing 12 months is 82.1B USD, up 7.2% year over year, while return on equity is 7.6%.
• A beta of 0.61 suggests the stock has historically moved less than the overall market, consistent with defensive names like Walmart (WMT) or Colgate-Palmolive (CL).
• Debt-to-equity stands at 39.1% and the price-to-book ratio is 1.68.

Recent news

Recent headlines compare ADM with other agricultural players, including a piece contrasting ADM and Corteva's competitive moats and another pitting ADM against Bunge in the context of potential US–China trade concessions. Other coverage notes that ADM is set to enter the voluntary carbon market, and asks whether consumer staples stocks are lagging ADM this year.

What to watch

As an agribusiness, ADM's results are typically sensitive to crop prices, harvest volumes, and global trade flows, themes echoed in headlines about US–China agricultural trade. Its Nutrition segment's progress relative to the traditional Ag Services and Oilseeds business is another area investors follow. The next earnings date is Nov 3, 2026, and the ex-dividend date is Aug 19, 2026. Peers in the broader consumer defensive space include Tyson Foods (TSN), Hershey Company (The) (HSY), and Clorox (CLX); you can browse more names in the Stocks directory.