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Archer-Daniels-Midland Company (ADM)

NYSE / Consumer Defensive / Agricultural Farm Products

Share price

82.61 USD Market dataClose of Oct 16, 2026

Market capitalisation

39.81B USD Market dataClose of Oct 16, 2026
Market data
Oct 16, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2025, filed Feb 17, 2026
Ratios computed
Oct 16, 2026
Filed years
11, FY2015 to FY2025
Four kinds of sourceSEC filingCompany statementMarket dataComputedWhat each means
SEC filingFiled with the SEC
Read from a statement the company filed with the SEC, with the form, fiscal year, filing date and accession beside it.
Company statementCompany statement
What the company says about itself in a filing: an 8-K item, the auditor, its own segment names.
Market dataMarket data
Prices, market value and what analysts publish, with the date they are as of.
ComputedComputed by ValueScreener
Worked out by us from the other three, with the inputs and the formula one press away. A score is a research output, not a rating or a recommendation.
Reading

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Overview

What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Four questions, at a glance

Quality

Return on invested capital, after tax

5.1% Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

37.04x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

10.5% Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2016 Revenue: 62.35B USDFY2016 Net income: 1.28B USDFY2017 Revenue: 60.83B USDFY2017 Net income: 1.59B USDFY2018 Revenue: 64.34B USDFY2018 Net income: 1.81B USDFY2019 Revenue: 64.66B USDFY2019 Net income: 1.38B USDFY2020 Revenue: 64.36B USDFY2020 Net income: 1.77B USDFY2021 Revenue: 85.25B USDFY2021 Net income: 2.71B USDFY2022 Revenue: 101.56B USDFY2022 Net income: 4.34B USDFY2023 Revenue: 93.94B USDFY2023 Net income: 3.48B USDFY2024 Revenue: 85.53B USDFY2024 Net income: 1.80B USDFY2025 Revenue: 80.27B USDFY2025 Net income: 1.08B USD
Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Named tests met
2 of 30 Which tests
The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 37.04x at the close of 2026-10-16 on FY2025 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits between 25.00x and 40.00x.

Today, against the Consumer Defensive sector (135 companies), 37.04x sits at the 82nd percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 13.73x to 34.00x.

Is it good

Return on invested capital was 5.1% in FY2025, in the band labelled "Likely below the cost of capital" (below 8.0%), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data, suggesting returns below the usual cost of the capital employed.

Today, against the Consumer Defensive sector (102 companies), 5.1% sits at the 38th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 2.7% to 14.1%.

Is it safe

Debt to equity was 0.43 in FY2025, in the band labelled "Conservative" (below 0.50), on lines anchored on Graham's defensive-investor criteria, suggesting a balance sheet that relies little on borrowing.

Today, against the Consumer Defensive sector (131 companies), 0.43 sits at the 32nd percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 0.35 to 1.58.

Year by year against peers
Whether Archer-Daniels-Midland Company's return on invested capital stayed above the median of the Consumer Defensive sector, year by year. (FY2021 to FY2025, 5 fiscal years of Archer-Daniels-Midland Company with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Archer-Daniels-Midland Company's return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 filed years of Archer-Daniels-Midland Company)
What could explain it
What in Archer-Daniels-Midland Company's filed statements could explain the movements. (6 readings drawn from the statement lines Archer-Daniels-Midland Company filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Archer-Daniels-Midland Company, and where in its filings. (4 questions for Archer-Daniels-Midland Company)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Archer-Daniels-Midland Company's returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (13 of sixteen figures read for Archer-Daniels-Midland Company)

These are ADM’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.

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What changed

The newest filing, what it moved, and when the next one is due.

SEC filingCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are the FY2025 annual report: 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, accession 0000007084-26-000011.

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Quality

The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.

SEC filingComputed

Archer-Daniels-Midland Company: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax5.1% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000007084-26-000011
Return on equity4.7% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000007084-26-000011
Return on capital employed, pre-tax
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000007084-26-000011
Return on assets2.1% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000007084-26-000011
Gross margin6.3% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000007084-26-000011
Operating margin
Why n/a

No operating income line is filed for this year.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000007084-26-000011
Net margin1.3% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000007084-26-000011
ADM 1.3%
SYY 2.1%EL 1.2%JBS 2.4%DG 3.5%FMX 5.2%
1.2%5.2%
Net margin: ADM against the 5 companies named under Valuation context, each as filed for its own latest year. Placement only: no average is drawn.

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Financial strength

What it owes against what it owns, and whether it can meet what falls due.

SEC filingComputedCompany statement

Archer-Daniels-Midland Company: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity0.43 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000007084-26-000011
Current ratio1.37 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000007084-26-000011
Quick ratio0.83 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000007084-26-000011
Interest coverage
Why n/a

No operating income line is filed for this year.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000007084-26-000011
Altman Z-score
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000007084-26-000011
Net debt8.74B ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000007084-26-000011
Total assets 52.39BTotal liabilities 29.65BShareholders' equity 22.73BOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What Archer-Daniels-Midland Company owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2025, from the balance sheet it filed (10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000007084-26-000011).

Archer-Daniels-Midland Company: balance sheet position
Total assets52.39B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026
Total liabilities29.65B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026
Shareholders' equity22.73B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026
Cash1.01B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026
Total debt9.76B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026
Net debt8.74B
Current ratio1.37
Debt to equity0.43
  • Interest cover: FY2025: No operating income line is filed for this year.

Read from the filed balance sheet for each year, with the income statement of the same year supplying operating profit where a ratio needs it. Nothing here is a view on whether this company is sound.

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Valuation context

What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Archer-Daniels-Midland Company: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings37.04x ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000007084-26-000011
P/E on trailing twelve months22.57x ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book1.76x ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000007084-26-000011
Price to sales0.50x ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000007084-26-000011
Enterprise value to EBIT26.10x ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000007084-26-000011
Enterprise value to EBITDA
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000007084-26-000011
Price to earnings over growth
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000007084-26-000011
Diluted earnings per share2.23 USD FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000007084-26-000011
Graham number48.55 USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000007084-26-000011

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value ADM on your own assumptions in the DCF workbench, starting from the filed figures.

Its own record, and companies like it

Valuation

What the market charges for Archer-Daniels-Midland Company today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

Archer-Daniels-Midland Company: valuation
Share price82.61 USD
Market capitalisation39.81B USD
Enterprise value to EBITDAn/a
Graham number48.55 USD
Diluted earnings per share, FY20252.23 USD

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months, a different basis from the fiscal-year P/E above, since Aug 1, 2017: low 7.16x, median 14.89x, high 38.98x, latest 22.57x. 2,316 trading days with a meaningful ratio. Each close over the trailing twelve months of earnings as known that day: a quarter counts from the day it was filed.

Companies like Archer-Daniels-Midland Company

  1. Sysco Corporation (SYY)Market cap 40.45B USD
  2. The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. (EL)Market cap 37.88B USD
  3. JBS N.V. (JBS)Market cap 28.90B USD
  4. Dollar General Corporation (DG)Market cap 29.66B USD
  5. Fomento Económico Mexicano, S.A.B. de C.V. (FMX)Market cap 43.08B USD

Same sector (Consumer Defensive) and size band (Large, 10B to 200B), nearest in market value, net margin and current ratio. Each of those counts equally, by how many of the companies considered sit between the two on it. Closest first: the order is likeness and nothing else.

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Cash generation

Whether profit arrives as cash, and what is paid back to shareholders.

SEC filingComputed

Archer-Daniels-Midland Company: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield10.5% ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000007084-26-000011
Free cash flow4.20B USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000007084-26-000011
Free cash flow margin5.2% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000007084-26-000011
Dividend yield2.5% ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000007084-26-000011
Payout ratio91.6% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000007084-26-000011
FY2016 Free cash flow: -7.39B USDFY2016 Net income: 1.28B USDFY2017 Free cash flow: -7.01B USDFY2017 Net income: 1.59B USDFY2018 Free cash flow: -5.63B USDFY2018 Net income: 1.81B USDFY2019 Free cash flow: -6.28B USDFY2019 Net income: 1.38B USDFY2020 Free cash flow: -3.21B USDFY2020 Net income: 1.77B USDFY2021 Free cash flow: 5.43B USDFY2021 Net income: 2.71B USDFY2022 Free cash flow: 2.16B USDFY2022 Net income: 4.34B USDFY2023 Free cash flow: 2.97B USDFY2023 Net income: 3.48B USDFY2024 Free cash flow: 1.23B USDFY2024 Net income: 1.80B USDFY2025 Free cash flow: 4.20B USDFY2025 Net income: 1.08B USD
Free cash flow Net incomeProfit that arrives as cash stands level with net income; a gap year after year is worth reading about.

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Filings

Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.

SEC filingMarket data

The filed figures

Computed from the accounts this company filed with the SEC and, in a ratio with a price in it, the last close, dated on this page. Every filed figure below carries the fiscal year and the filing date its accounts were read from, and every blank carries the reason it is blank. Nothing here is a view on this company.

Archer-Daniels-Midland Company: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
37.04xFY2025Oct 16, 2026
1.76xFY2025Oct 16, 2026
26.10xFY2025Oct 16, 2026
10.5%FY2025Oct 16, 2026
5.1%FY2025Feb 17, 2026
2.5%FY2025Oct 16, 2026
0.43FY2025Feb 17, 2026
1.37FY2025Feb 17, 2026
0.50xFY2025Oct 16, 2026
n/aFY2025Oct 16, 2026
n/a This figure compares a year against the one before it, and we hold one filed year for this company.
n/aFY2025Oct 16, 2026
n/a We hold no figure here and no stored reason for its absence. The gap is ours, not the company's.
-2.81FY2025Feb 17, 2026
5/9FY2025Feb 17, 2026

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2025, the newest full year on file. 11 filed fiscal years on record, FY2015 to FY2025, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 16, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 16, 2026. Two facts, because a recompute is not a fresh quote.

The year and the filing date name the statement each figure’s accounts are read from, and they stand even where the figure itself could not be computed: the line beneath a blank says what that statement did not carry. A figure’s name opens its formula and the filings behind it; a statement that names no SEC filing has no filing date, and reads n/a.

Ten years of filed figures, year by year

Ten years of filed figures

10 filed fiscal years, FY2016 to FY2025, read from the annual reports Archer-Daniels-Midland Company filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in USD, as filed.

Archer-Daniels-Midland Company: revenue, earnings, free cash flow and returns, by fiscal year, with the filing each year was read from
YearRevenueOperating incomeNet incomeEPS, dilutedFree cash flowOperating marginReturn on equityFiling
FY202580.27B1.87B1.08B2.234.20Bn/a4.7%10-K, Feb 17, 20260000007084-26-000011
FY202485.53B2.96B1.80B3.651.23Bn/a8.1%10-K, Feb 20, 20250000007084-25-000011
FY202393.94B4.94B3.48B6.432.97Bn/a14.4%10-K, Mar 12, 20240000007084-24-000009
FY2022101.56B5.63B4.34B7.712.16Bn/a17.9%10-K, Feb 14, 20230000007084-23-000010
FY202185.25B3.58B2.71B4.795.43Bn/a12.1%10-K, Feb 17, 20220000007084-22-000008
FY202064.36B2.22B1.77B3.15-3.21Bn/a8.9%10-K, Feb 18, 20210000007084-21-000008
FY201964.66B1.99B1.38B2.44-6.28Bn/a7.2%10-K, Feb 18, 20200000007084-20-000009
FY201864.34B2.42B1.81B3.19-5.63Bn/a9.5%10-K, Feb 19, 20190000007084-19-000012
FY201760.83B1.94B1.59B2.79-7.01Bn/a8.7%10-K, Feb 16, 20180000007084-18-000012
FY201662.35B2.12B1.28B2.16-7.39Bn/a7.5%10-K, Feb 17, 20170000007084-17-000008
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 2.8%
  • Earnings, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: -1.9%
  • Earnings per share, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 0.4%
  • Free cash flow: Free cash flow was not positive in both 2016 and 2025, so a compound rate across the window is not defined. Both figures are in the table.

Every figure in this section is a line of a filed annual statement or a ratio of two of them. Nothing here is estimated or smoothed. Earnings per share filed before a share split are put on today's share count, and say so. Nothing here is a verdict on the company.

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Risks and guardrails

The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.

ComputedCompany statement

Archer-Daniels-Midland Company: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-2.81 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000007084-26-000011
Piotroski F-score5/9 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2026, 0000007084-26-000011
Named tests met2 of 30 Computed
Beta0.15 ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 2 met, 27 not met, 1 we could not complete. Counts, never a score: a single figure would have to decide that meeting one investor’s criteria and meeting another’s are worth the same.

Which tests, by name(all 30)
Meets
Dividends and buybacks; Cash-covered dividend
Does not
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Deep value; Large cap, low P/E; Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); High returns and growth; Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); High yield, low payout; Low beta, profitable; ROIC at or above WACC; Near the 52-week low; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); High returns, low debt; Owner earnings yield; High return on tangibles; Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Tangible book or below; Cash-flow yield and ROIC; Clean books, high ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman); Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman); Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff)
Not measured
EV/EBITDA and coverage. A test with a figure we could not read is incomplete, never met and never failed.
Figures we could not read(4)
  • Altman Z-Score: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • PEG Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • EV/EBITDA: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Interest Coverage: No operating income line is filed for this year.

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Declared positions

Whether anybody here owns this company.

Positions declared by Javier Sanz Alvarez: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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What this cannot tell you

  • 4 figures could not be read on this company, among them Altman Z-Score, PEG Ratio, EV/EBITDA. Each blank in the table above names the rest, with its reason. 1 named test comes back incomplete because of them, which is neither met nor missed.

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