ADM

Archer-Daniels-Midland Company ·NYSE·Consumer Staples
79.74 live · 2026-08-12 15:59

Some scores are at the bottom of their range

This score sits at the bottom of the 0–100 range. The underlying calculation was negative, so the displayed value is a floor, not a measurement of zero.

  • Tactical Score: displayed 0, underlying value -34.4
2.6%
Brown Bear Score
15.2%
Business Conviction Score
20.1%
Position Health Score
2.7%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · +36.2% · range 56.00–87.32

The Businesswhat the company reports

Business & cash flow

FCF / assets 8.0%
OCF / assets 10.4%
FCF / revenue 6.8%
Gross margin 6.9%
ROIC 5.7%
Forward P/E 14.0

FCF/assets and OCF/assets are the cash-flow measures Brown Bear's own testing found to survive; FCF/revenue is shown alongside for context. Assets are from the latest annual filing (FY2025).

Price vs Earnings growth

Forward EPS growth has outpaced trailing price return by +19.1pp

Confidence 95.0/100

Takeaway Earnings growth is outpacing price — consistent with the stock not yet fully reflecting its improving forward estimates.

Reported earnings

Next report 2026-11-02 before the open · consensus EPS 1.60

Q1 23 revenue: 24.07bnQ1 23 net income: 1.17bnQ1 23 EPS: 2.12Q2 23 revenue: 25.19bnQ2 23 net income: 927.00mQ2 23 EPS: 1.70Q2 23Q3 23 revenue: 21.70bnQ3 23 net income: 821.00mQ3 23 EPS: 1.52Q4 23 revenue: 22.98bnQ4 23 net income: 565.00mQ4 23 EPS: 1.04Q4 23Q1 24 revenue: 21.85bnQ1 24 net income: 729.00mQ1 24 EPS: 1.42Q2 24 revenue: 22.25bnQ2 24 net income: 486.00mQ2 24 EPS: 0.99Q2 24Q3 24 revenue: 5.99bnQ3 24 net income: 18.00mQ3 24 EPS: 0.04Q1 25 revenue: 6.15bnQ1 25 net income: 295.00mQ1 25 EPS: 0.61Q1 25Q2 25 revenue: 6.34bnQ2 25 net income: 219.00mQ2 25 EPS: 0.45Q3 25 revenue: 6.42bnQ3 25 net income: 108.00mQ3 25 EPS: 0.22Q3 25Q4 25 revenue: 6.05bnQ4 25 net income: 456.00mQ4 25 EPS: 0.94Q1 26 revenue: 6.14bnQ1 26 net income: 298.00mQ1 26 EPS: 0.62Q1 26

Revenue Net incomeEPS (GAAP) (0.04–2.12, own scale) Derived Q4

12 quarters to Q1 26. Revenue and net income share one scale, so the gap between them is the margin. The line is GAAP EPS — it spans every quarter shown, where the reported figure only goes back as far as the consensus feed does.

Quarter endingRevenueYoY Net incomeEPS (GAAP) EPS reportedvs consensus Filed
2026-03-31 6.14bn -0.1% 298.00m 0.62 0.71 +6.6% 2026-05-05
2025-12-31 (derived) 6.05bn 456.00m 0.94 0.87 +8.2% 2026-02-17
2025-09-30 6.42bn +7.1% 108.00m 0.22 0.92 +6.8% 2025-11-04
2025-06-30 6.34bn -71.5% 219.00m 0.45 2025-08-05

Earnings response

Typical move around a filing ±3.8%
On an ordinary two days ±1.3% — filings move it 3.0× as much
Direction 5 up, 6 down over 11 filings
Revenue change and price reaction, by quarter
Q3 22 revenue +21.4% year on yearQ3 22 filed 2022-10-25: price +4.8%Q1 23 revenue +1.8% year on yearQ1 23 filed 2023-04-25: price -4.7%Q1 23Q2 23 revenue -7.7% year on yearQ2 23 filed 2023-07-25: price +4.6%Q3 23 revenue -12.1% year on yearQ3 23 filed 2023-10-24: price -1.9%Q3 23Q1 24 revenue -9.2% year on yearQ1 24 filed 2024-04-30: price -3.8%Q2 24 revenue -11.7% year on yearQ2 24 filed 2024-07-30: price -2.0%Q2 24Q3 24 revenue -72.4% year on yearQ3 24 filed 2024-11-18: price -0.7%Q1 25 revenue -71.9% year on yearQ1 25 filed 2025-05-06: price +0.8%Q1 25Q2 25 revenue -71.5% year on yearQ2 25 filed 2025-08-05: price +4.4%Q3 25 revenue +7.1% year on yearQ3 25 filed 2025-11-04: price -6.3%Q3 25Q1 26 revenue -0.1% year on yearQ1 26 filed 2026-05-05: price +2.3%

Revenue up year on year Revenue down Price move around the filing separate scales — a crossing means nothing

Quarter endingFiledRevenue YoY Move around filingNext 20 sessions vs SPY
2026-03-31 2026-05-05 -0.1% +2.3% +4.4%
2025-09-30 2025-11-04 +7.1% -6.3% +5.3%
2025-06-30 2025-08-05 -71.5% +4.4% +7.5%
2025-03-31 2025-05-06 -71.9% +0.8% -6.6%

Share count

Diluted shares over time

Diluted shares Return since the previous filing

Direction Flat — little net change
Diluted shares 484.0M as at 2026-03-31
Change over 1 year +0.2%
Change over 3 years -12.2%
Public float $25.20bn as at 2025-06-30 (10-K)

The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑

Price Levels

StrategyFair Value Anchor
Reference band 74.19 — 80.13
Protective stop 70.89 (Atr, 8.1% risk)
Support 77.08 (2 touches, 3.4% away)
Resistance 82.60 (3.6% away)

Takeaway The shares are nearer the floor than the ceiling: about 3.4% above 77.08, a price buyers have stepped in at before, and 3.6% below 82.60, where sellers have turned up before. That floor has held 2 times, which is how it was spotted. If someone bought at today's price and sold if it dropped through the level below, they would be about 8.1% out of pocket. That is all this figure means — an illustration of the risk, not a price to sell at.

Levels are computed from price structure. They describe where the engine locates support and extension — they are not targets, and not advice.

Ichimoku Cloud (Adaptive)

Daily cloudPrice BELOW the cloud | periods 5/15/29 (56% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BEAR | cloud twist BEAR (fresh down, 4d ago)
Cloud thickness57% percentile
Chikou spanNot clear of price from 26 periods ago
Weekly cloudPrice ABOVE the weekly cloud (context only, not scored)

Takeaway The stock is trading below its cloud — a shaded band drawn from several of its own moving averages, currently 80.67 to 82.11. Being below it means the medium-term picture is pointing downwards, and that band is the first hurdle it would have to climb back through. Its shorter-term averages agree with that.

Trailing returns

21 days -3.1%
63 days -1.2%
126 days +16.2%
252 days +36.8%
Below 252d high8.7%

Trend context

PositionAbove trend
ExtensionNormal
Trend slopeFlat
Direction of travelConverging back to trend

Takeaway The share price is above the level its own longer-run trend suggests is fair, and that fair level is going sideways. The gap between the two has been closing. Neither is stretched far enough to stand out.

Volatility

State No recent compression
Current band width16.8% of price
Recent tightest13.8% (6 sessions ago, narrower than 31.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.22×
Band 75.01 — 88.72

Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 17% wide. That is normal for this stock, so there is nothing unusual to read into it either way.

Historical trends

0255075100Share price 76.59–87.322026-07-032026-08-12
Position Health Business Conviction Share price

History begins when the site started recording, not when the company listed, so a short line means a short record and nothing more.

Repair Pathway

  1. Nearest Trigger EMA20 reclaim +0.7% gap is improving · Broadly stable
  2. Trigger 2 MACD bullish crossover repair trigger repair engine identifies this as the nearest technical repair catalyst · Improving
  3. Trigger 3 MACD histogram above zero 0.35 gap is improving · Improving
  4. Trigger 4 MACD repair streak continuation 3 improving bars MACD histogram has improved for 3 consecutive sessions · Improving
  5. Trigger 5 Bollinger recovery toward mid-band +0.11 band position price remains in the lower Bollinger zone; recovery toward mid-band would support repair · Broadly stable

Who's Tradingthe flow behind the priceTop ↑

Insider activity

ActivityNo filings in the window
Buy filings0
Sell filings0

Open-market Form 4 purchases and sales over the last 75 days, read from SEC EDGAR Form 4. Grants, option exercises, gifts and shares withheld for tax are excluded — they are compensation mechanics, not a decision to buy or sell. Reported Form 4 activity. Brown Bear tested insider cluster-buying as a return signal and rejected it as era-unstable; shown as fact, not signal.

Volume confirmation

Volume-price trend Above its signal line
Confirmation Marginal

No absorption or distribution event in the recent window.

Takeaway Slightly more shares change hands on rising days than on falling ones, but the gap is too small to read anything into.

Options Positioning

No binary-event flag

ADM: no binary-event flag. Near IV 31%, far IV 30% (ratio 1.06), implied move 3.9%.

Implied volatility 31% near (9d) · 30% far (65d)
Term structure 1.06× near/far
Historical volatility 33%
Implied vs historical 0.93×
Implied move ±3.9% by 2026-08-21
Implied move vs ATR 0.41×
Skew Flat (1.06×)
Put wall 42.50 (-46.7% away)
Gamma pin 47.50

Takeaway Insuring against a move in this stock costs less for the next few weeks than for the next few months, which is the normal state of affairs and suggests no particular date is worrying anyone. Options traders are positioned for a move of around 3.9% in either direction by 2026-08-21.

Chain as at 2026-08-12. This is a risk read on whether a specific event is being priced — not a directional view.

Context & Methodthe record, and how it was builtTop ↑

Relative Rotation

ImprovingLeadingLaggingWeakeningvs sectorvs SPYsector vs SPYRS-Ratio →RS-Momentum →

Repair Attempt

Rotation health 19.5/100; Severe Rotation Headwind.

Rotation health 19.5
Rotation strength 73.1
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Lagging 88.1 90.7
Stock vs SPY Lagging 85.2 90.3
Sector vs SPY Lagging 84.3 87.1

Direction of travel: North-West / early recovery

Position only. Brown Bear's RRG redesign programme is closed — five constructions, none beat an appropriate null — so this section describes where the name sits, and is not a signal.

News Headlines

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Detailed Scoring

Positive signals

  • Piotroski F-score 5/9 (+5.0)
  • Altman Z-score 3.18 (+3.0)
  • ROIC quality: 5.7% (+0.2)
  • FCF margin quality: 6.8% (+2.0)
  • FCF margin improving by 3.5 pts (+1.0)
  • High earnings quality (accrual ratio -0.083) (+2.0)
  • Accrual ratio improving (-0.02 -> -0.08) (+2.0)
  • Track 2: relative strength trend improving (+10.0)
  • Track 2: relative momentum rank 0.74 (+8.0)
  • Track 2: MACD histogram acceleration 0.55 (+4.0)
  • Track 2: Bollinger position 0.34 (+2.8)

Negative signals

  • Track 2: weak MACD histogram (-0.35)
  • Track 2: weak MACD line/signal structure (-12.0)
  • Track 2: negative MACD regime (-8.0)
  • Track 2: MACD slope deteriorating (-5.0)
  • Track 2: weak volume for momentum setup (0.63x average)
  • Track 2: negative 20-day momentum acceleration (-0.07)
  • Track 2: bearish DI spread (-9.5)
  • Track 2: weak/falling ADX (22.8, falling)
  • Track 2: price below EMA20 by 0.7%
  • Track 2: EMA20 slope deteriorating -1.0%
  • Track 2: RSI deterioration/overheating 32.1, 5-day change -3.3
  • Track 2: weak VPT confirmation (0.00)
  • Track 2: EMA50 slope deteriorating -0.4%
  • ROIC improving by -3.2 pts (+-2.0)
  • Track 2 structural exemption: structural score 13.2/100 below the 25 quality floor; this is an unowned speculative candidate, so the universal SELL gate was skipped and the Track 2 momentum/RRG grid was allowed to evaluate instead. Structural quality here is weak by design for this kind of candidate -- treat any resulting BUY as higher risk than a Track 1 signal.

Chase risk is not elevated for this name, so extension penalties are omitted from the negative signals above.