Top Agriculture Stocks To Consider – April 3rd

Apollo Global Management, Deere & Company, Chubb, Norfolk Southern, Ingersoll Rand, Steel Dynamics, and Vodafone Group Public are the seven Agriculture stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. Agriculture stocks are shares of companies involved in the production, processing, and distribution of agricultural products or the goods and services that support the agricultural industry. They span a diverse array of sectors including farming, agrochemicals, machinery manufacturing, and food processing, and their performance is influenced by factors such as commodity prices, weather conditions, and global supply and demand trends. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Agriculture stocks within the last several days.

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 NYSE APO traded down $15.49 during trading on Thursday, hitting $126.03. The company had a trading volume of 6,741,403 shares, compared to its average volume of 3,553,506. The stock has a 50 day simple moving average of $150.71 and a 200 day simple moving average of $153.85. The firm has a market capitalization of $71.90 billion, a P/E ratio of 17.24, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.17 and a beta of 1.66. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.33, a quick ratio of 1.44 and a current ratio of 1.44. Apollo Global Management has a 12 month low of $95.11 and a 12 month high of $189.49.

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.

NYSE DE traded down $16.91 on Thursday, reaching $453.99. 1,429,696 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 1,402,180. The company has a current ratio of 2.22, a quick ratio of 1.98 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.94. Deere & Company has a one year low of $340.20 and a one year high of $515.05. The firm has a market capitalization of $123.22 billion, a PE ratio of 20.12, a PEG ratio of 2.14 and a beta of 1.01. The company’s 50-day simple moving average is $478.09 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $441.50.

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.

Shares of NYSE CB traded up $3.67 during midday trading on Thursday, reaching $305.21. The stock had a trading volume of 1,217,056 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,603,375. The company has a market capitalization of $122.21 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 13.43, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.36 and a beta of 0.66. Chubb has a 12-month low of $238.85 and a 12-month high of $306.85. The stock has a 50-day moving average of $281.24 and a 200-day moving average of $281.74. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.21, a quick ratio of 0.28 and a current ratio of 0.25.

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.

Norfolk Southern stock traded down $14.53 during mid-day trading on Thursday, hitting $224.04. The stock had a trading volume of 1,080,397 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,212,681. The company has a current ratio of 0.90, a quick ratio of 0.82 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.16. The firm’s 50 day moving average is $244.55 and its 200 day moving average is $248.79. The firm has a market capitalization of $50.73 billion, a P/E ratio of 19.38, a P/E/G ratio of 2.31 and a beta of 1.35. Norfolk Southern has a one year low of $206.71 and a one year high of $277.60.

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.

Shares of NYSE IR traded down $7.17 during mid-day trading on Thursday, reaching $74.53. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 2,760,000 shares, compared to its average volume of 2,451,720. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.46, a current ratio of 2.29 and a quick ratio of 1.71. Ingersoll Rand has a 52 week low of $73.91 and a 52 week high of $106.03. The stock has a fifty day moving average of $85.93 and a two-hundred day moving average of $93.50. The firm has a market capitalization of $30.04 billion, a PE ratio of 36.18, a P/E/G ratio of 3.50 and a beta of 1.48.

Steel Dynamics (STLD)

Steel Dynamics, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a steel producer and metal recycler in the United States. The Steel Operations segment offers hot rolled, cold rolled, and coated steel products; parallel flange beams and channel sections, flat bars, large unequal leg angles, and reinforcing steel bars, as well as standard strength carbon, intermediate alloy hardness, and premium grade rail products; engineered special-bar-quality products, merchant-bar-quality products, and other engineered round steel bars; channels, angles, flats, merchant rounds, and reinforcing steel bars; and specialty shapes and light structural steel products.

NASDAQ STLD traded down $10.15 during trading hours on Thursday, reaching $117.21. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 1,043,616 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,456,045. The company has a quick ratio of 1.08, a current ratio of 2.53 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.32. Steel Dynamics has a 1 year low of $104.60 and a 1 year high of $155.56. The firm’s 50-day moving average price is $128.52 and its 200-day moving average price is $128.97. The company has a market capitalization of $17.57 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 11.96, a PEG ratio of 1.05 and a beta of 1.34.

Vodafone Group Public (VOD)

Vodafone Group Public Limited Company provides telecommunication services in Europe and internationally. It offers mobile connectivity services comprising end-to-end services for mobile voice and data, messaging, device management, BYOx, and telecoms management, as well as professional and consulting services; and fixed line connectivity, such as fixed voice and data, broadband, software-defined networks, managed WAN, LAN, ethernet, and satellite; and financial services, as well as business and merchant services.

Shares of VOD stock traded up $0.24 during mid-day trading on Thursday, hitting $9.36. The company had a trading volume of 10,581,255 shares, compared to its average volume of 10,289,533. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.78, a current ratio of 1.37 and a quick ratio of 1.34. The stock’s 50 day moving average price is $8.90 and its 200-day moving average price is $9.02. Vodafone Group Public has a 52-week low of $8.00 and a 52-week high of $10.39. The company has a market capitalization of $22.16 billion, a P/E ratio of 8.21, a P/E/G ratio of 0.66 and a beta of 0.75.