Long Position on ADM @ $96.00 on 4/19/2022 (Fundamentals)

Archer-Daniels-Midland Company (ADM) procures, transports, stores, processes, and merchandises agricultural commodities, products, and ingredients in the United States, Switzerland, Cayman Islands, Brazil, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and internationally. Stockwinners

The company operates through three segments: Ag Services and Oilseeds, Carbohydrate Solutions, and Nutrition.

It procures, stores, cleans, and transports agricultural raw materials, such as oilseeds, corn, wheat, milo, oats, and barley. The company also engages in the agricultural commodity and feed product import, export, and distribution; and structured trade finance activities.

In addition, it offers vegetable oils and protein meals; ingredients for the food, feed, energy, and industrial customers; crude vegetable oils, salad oils, margarine, shortening, and other food products; and partially refined oils to produce biodiesel and glycols for use in chemicals, paints, and other industrial products.

Further, the company provides peanuts, peanut-derived ingredients, and cotton cellulose pulp; sweeteners, corn and wheat starches, syrup, glucose, wheat flour, and dextrose; alcohol and other food and animal feed ingredients; ethyl alcohol and ethanol; corn gluten feed and meal; distillers' grains; and citric acids.

Additionally, the company provides natural flavors, flavor systems, natural colors, proteins, emulsifiers, soluble fiber, polyols, hydrocolloids, and natural health and nutrition products, including probiotics, prebiotics, enzymes, and botanical extracts; and other specialty food and feed ingredients; edible beans; formula feeds, and animal health and nutrition products; and contract and private label pet treats and foods. It also offers futures commission merchant; commodity brokerage services; cash margins and securities pledged to commodity exchange clearinghouses; and cash pledged as security under certain insurance arrangements.

Shares have formed a bullish "cup and handle" and are in the process of breaking out of the formation. Record commodity prices and the White House mandate to increase ethanol in gasoline to 15% from 10% are among catalysts that should help ADM. The company reports its quarterly results on April 26th before the open. Expectations are for revenue of $20.48B and EPS of $1.31.

 

Entry Point: $96.00

Trading Range: $56.91 to $97.70

Stop Loss: $92.00

Target Price: $105.00

Position closed on 5/2/2022 at price of $92.00 with a -4.17% loss in 13 days.

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