Best Agriculture Stocks To Follow Today – March 31st

Chubb, Deere & Company, Apollo Global Management, Norfolk Southern, Steel Dynamics, Corteva, and Ingersoll Rand are the seven Agriculture stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. Agriculture stocks are shares of publicly traded companies that operate within the agricultural sector, which includes farming, agribusiness services, and the production of agricultural inputs such as fertilizers and equipment. These stocks allow investors to gain exposure to the diverse financial performance of the agriculture industry, from crop production to food processing and distribution. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Agriculture stocks within the last several days.

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 CB stock traded up $4.65 during trading on Monday, reaching $301.09. The company had a trading volume of 925,911 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,593,538. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.21, a current ratio of 0.25 and a quick ratio of 0.28. Chubb has a one year low of $238.85 and a one year high of $302.78. The firm’s 50 day simple moving average is $279.26 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $281.41. The company has a market capitalization of $120.56 billion, a PE ratio of 13.24, a PEG ratio of 3.36 and a beta of 0.66.

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.

Shares of DE traded up $2.81 during trading hours on Monday, reaching $466.50. 581,322 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 1,397,523. The stock has a market cap of $126.61 billion, a P/E ratio of 20.66, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.14 and a beta of 1.01. Deere & Company has a 1-year low of $340.20 and a 1-year high of $515.05. The stock’s fifty day moving average is $477.28 and its 200 day moving average is $440.12. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.94, a quick ratio of 1.98 and a current ratio of 2.22.

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.

NYSE:APO traded down $0.58 during trading hours on Monday, reaching $136.39. The company had a trading volume of 1,745,053 shares, compared to its average volume of 3,525,831. The stock has a 50-day moving average of $152.47 and a two-hundred day moving average of $153.59. Apollo Global Management has a one year low of $95.11 and a one year high of $189.49. The firm has a market capitalization of $77.80 billion, a PE ratio of 18.63, a PEG ratio of 1.17 and a beta of 1.66. The company has a quick ratio of 1.44, a current ratio of 1.44 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.33.

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.

Shares of NSC traded up $4.63 during trading hours on Monday, hitting $235.18. 672,685 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 1,208,026. Norfolk Southern has a 1-year low of $206.71 and a 1-year high of $277.60. The business has a fifty day moving average of $245.28 and a 200-day moving average of $249.05. 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 has a market capitalization of $53.25 billion, a PE ratio of 20.33, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.31 and a beta of 1.35.

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 up $0.40 during trading on Monday, reaching $123.87. 799,853 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 1,450,929. Steel Dynamics has a fifty-two week low of $104.60 and a fifty-two week high of $155.56. The stock’s 50-day moving average price is $128.46 and its 200 day moving average price is $128.80. The firm has a market cap of $18.57 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 12.57, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.05 and a beta of 1.34. The company has a quick ratio of 1.08, a current ratio of 2.53 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.32.

Corteva (CTVA)

Corteva, Inc. operates in the agriculture business. It operates through two segments, Seed and Crop Protection. The Seed segment develops and supplies advanced germplasm and traits that produce optimum yield for farms. It offers trait technologies that enhance resistance to weather, disease, insects, and herbicides used to control weeds, as well as food and nutritional characteristics.

Shares of Corteva stock traded up $1.48 on Monday, hitting $62.54. The company had a trading volume of 1,566,696 shares, compared to its average volume of 3,216,356. The stock has a 50-day moving average of $62.53 and a 200-day moving average of $60.13. The firm has a market capitalization of $42.71 billion, a P/E ratio of 48.43, a P/E/G ratio of 1.68 and a beta of 0.79. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.08, a current ratio of 1.45 and a quick ratio of 0.93. Corteva has a twelve month low of $50.01 and a twelve month high of $66.24.

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.

NYSE:IR traded up $0.18 during trading hours on Monday, reaching $79.62. 1,077,583 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 2,447,041. Ingersoll Rand has a twelve month low of $77.28 and a twelve month high of $106.03. The firm has a 50 day moving average of $86.69 and a 200 day moving average of $93.73. The stock has a market cap of $32.10 billion, a PE ratio of 38.59, a PEG ratio of 3.50 and a beta of 1.48. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.46, a current ratio of 2.29 and a quick ratio of 1.71.