Archer-Daniels Midland Company (ADM): Today's Featured Consumer Goods Winner

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Archer-Daniels Midland Company (ADM) pushed the Consumer Goods sector higher today making it today's featured consumer goods winner. The sector as a whole closed the day down 0.1%. By the end of trading, Archer-Daniels Midland Company rose 35 cents (1.1%) to $31.16 on average volume. Throughout the day, 6.7 million shares of Archer-Daniels Midland Company exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 4.7 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $30.66-$31.16 after having opened the day at $30.85 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $30.81. Other companies within the Consumer Goods sector that increased today were: SORL Auto Parts (SORL), up 8.3%, Central European Distribution (CEDC), up 6.1%, Chromcraft Revington (CRC), up 5.3%, and Lorillard (LO), up 4.9%.

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Archer-Daniels-Midland Company manufactures and sells protein meal, vegetable oil, corn sweeteners, flour, biodiesel, ethanol, and other value-added food and feed ingredients. Archer-Daniels Midland Company has a market cap of $19.94 billion and is part of the food & beverage industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 14.6, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 10.6% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are three analysts that rate Archer-Daniels Midland Company a buy, three analysts rate it a sell, and four rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Archer-Daniels Midland Company as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, attractive valuation levels, good cash flow from operations and increase in net income. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had somewhat disappointing return on equity.

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On the negative front, Furniture Brands International (FBN), down 21.3%, Blount International (BLT), down 17.9%, Frederick's of Hollywood Group (FOH), down 16%, and Dean Foods Company (DF), down 9.2%, were all laggards within the consumer goods sector with Beam (BEAM) being today's consumer goods sector laggard.

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