Best Agriculture Stocks To Follow Now – January 31st

Deere & Company, Apollo Global Management, Eastman Chemical, Chubb, and Norfolk Southern are the five Agriculture stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. Agriculture stocks refer to publicly-traded companies that are involved in the production, cultivation, and distribution of agricultural products. These stocks can include companies involved in farming, livestock, food processing, agricultural equipment manufacturing, and agribusiness. Investing in agriculture stocks allows individuals to gain exposure to the performance of the agricultural industry and potentially benefit from its growth and profitability. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Agriculture stocks within the last several days.

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 NYSE DE traded down $4.68 during trading on Friday, hitting $475.31. The stock had a trading volume of 506,292 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,334,485. Deere & Company has a 12 month low of $340.20 and a 12 month high of $485.84. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.89, a current ratio of 2.09 and a quick ratio of 1.90. The company has a market capitalization of $129.45 billion, a PE ratio of 18.60, a PEG ratio of 2.95 and a beta of 0.98. The firm has a fifty day moving average of $444.09 and a two-hundred day moving average of $409.10.

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.

Shares of NYSE APO traded down $0.48 during trading on Friday, hitting $171.28. The stock had a trading volume of 1,065,109 shares, compared to its average volume of 3,277,079. The company has a market capitalization of $96.92 billion, a PE ratio of 17.97, a PEG ratio of 1.37 and a beta of 1.63. The firm has a fifty day moving average of $170.04 and a two-hundred day moving average of $142.84. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.33, a current ratio of 1.44 and a quick ratio of 1.44. Apollo Global Management has a 12 month low of $95.11 and a 12 month high of $189.49.

Eastman Chemical (EMN)

Eastman Chemical Company operates as a specialty materials company in the United States, China, and internationally. The company's Additives & Functional Products segment offers amine derivative-based building blocks, intermediates for surfactants, metam-based soil fumigants, and organic acid-based solutions; specialty coalescent and solvents, paint additives, and specialty polymers; and heat transfer and aviation fluids.

EMN traded up $6.54 during trading on Friday, hitting $99.21. 1,684,336 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 1,070,718. The firm has a market cap of $11.50 billion, a P/E ratio of 13.31, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.68 and a beta of 1.44. The stock’s fifty day moving average is $94.92 and its 200 day moving average is $100.01. The company has a quick ratio of 0.78, a current ratio of 1.52 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.80. Eastman Chemical has a one year low of $80.71 and a one year high of $114.50.

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.

CB traded down $2.67 during trading on Friday, hitting $272.11. 566,236 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 1,929,069. The firm has a market cap of $109.69 billion, a P/E ratio of 12.01, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 7.45 and a beta of 0.67. The stock’s fifty day moving average is $275.42 and its 200 day moving average is $279.17. The company has a quick ratio of 0.28, a current ratio of 0.28 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.21. Chubb has a one year low of $238.85 and a one year high of $302.05.

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.

NSC traded down $0.06 during trading on Friday, hitting $257.14. 563,961 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 1,247,426. The firm has a market cap of $58.18 billion, a P/E ratio of 22.28, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.35 and a beta of 1.34. The stock’s fifty day moving average is $249.22 and its 200 day moving average is $248.75. The company has a quick ratio of 0.65, a current ratio of 0.73 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.21. Norfolk Southern has a one year low of $206.71 and a one year high of $277.60.