Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at ADM's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
ADM facts
| Founded (founded) | Decatur, Ill. (1898) |
| Market Cap | $18.9 billion |
| Industry | Agricultural products |
| Trailing-12-Month Revenue | $89.2 billion |
| Management | Chairman/CEO Patricia Woertz CFO Ray Young |
| Return on Equity (average, past 3 years) | 10.6% |
| Cash/Debt | $1.3 billion / $10.3 billion |
| Dividend Yield | 2.4% |
| Competitors |
Bunge Cargill Corn Products International |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 94% of the 2,071 members who have rated ADM believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward.
Just yesterday, one of those bulls, tichtalk, tapped the stock as a particularly stable income opportunity:
2.4% dividend yield is very attractive and makes ADM a solid dividend play. Year over year growth rates for 2013 look good. Won't be the type of stock that blows the market out of the water ... but won't completely crap out either.
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