Top Agriculture Stocks To Watch Today – April 22nd

Norfolk Southern, Apollo Global Management, Deere & Company, Chubb, Vodafone Group Public, Steel Dynamics, and Ingersoll Rand are the seven Agriculture stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. Agriculture stocks are shares of companies that participate in the production, processing, or distribution of agricultural goods and services. These stocks can belong to businesses ranging from crop and livestock farming to agri-tech and equipment manufacturing, with performance often influenced by factors such as commodity prices, weather conditions, and global food demand. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Agriculture stocks within the last several days.

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 $0.36 during trading on Tuesday, reaching $218.58. 788,166 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 1,252,594. The company has a quick ratio of 0.82, a current ratio of 0.90 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.16. The company has a market cap of $53.89 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 18.88, a P/E/G ratio of 2.31 and a beta of 1.30. Norfolk Southern has a 12-month low of $201.63 and a 12-month high of $277.60. The company’s 50-day moving average is $233.08 and its two-hundred day moving average is $245.54.

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 up $3.32 during trading on Tuesday, reaching $122.95. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 1,400,974 shares, compared to its average volume of 3,792,778. Apollo Global Management has a one year low of $95.11 and a one year high of $189.49. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.33, a current ratio of 1.44 and a quick ratio of 1.44. The stock has a market capitalization of $70.14 billion, a PE ratio of 16.75, a P/E/G ratio of 1.17 and a beta of 1.66. The firm has a fifty day moving average of $137.28 and a 200 day moving average of $153.44.

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.

DE traded up $11.88 during trading on Tuesday, reaching $453.44. The stock had a trading volume of 358,380 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,421,315. The business has a 50-day moving average of $469.08 and a 200-day moving average of $445.21. Deere & Company has a one year low of $340.20 and a one year high of $515.05. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.94, a quick ratio of 1.98 and a current ratio of 2.22. The stock has a market cap of $123.07 billion, a PE ratio of 20.02, a PEG ratio of 2.14 and a beta of 1.00.

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 up $8.93 on Tuesday, hitting $288.71. 538,241 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 1,628,058. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.21, a quick ratio of 0.28 and a current ratio of 0.25. Chubb has a 12 month low of $238.85 and a 12 month high of $306.91. The firm has a fifty day simple moving average of $284.92 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $281.00. The stock has a market capitalization of $115.68 billion, a PE ratio of 12.67, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.36 and a beta of 0.47.

Vodafone Group Public (VOD)

Vodafone Group Public Limited Company provides telecommunication services in Europe and internationally. It offers mobile connectivity services comprising end-to-end services for mobile voice and data, messaging, device management, BYOx, and telecoms management, as well as professional and consulting services; and fixed line connectivity, such as fixed voice and data, broadband, software-defined networks, managed WAN, LAN, ethernet, and satellite; and financial services, as well as business and merchant services.

Shares of VOD stock traded up $0.29 during trading hours on Tuesday, reaching $9.52. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 9,350,649 shares, compared to its average volume of 7,089,270. The stock has a market capitalization of $22.54 billion, a P/E ratio of 8.36, a P/E/G ratio of 0.66 and a beta of 0.58. The firm’s fifty day simple moving average is $8.99 and its 200 day simple moving average is $8.90. Vodafone Group Public has a one year low of $8.00 and a one year high of $10.39. The company has a current ratio of 1.37, a quick ratio of 1.34 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.78.

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.

Steel Dynamics stock traded up $2.66 on Tuesday, hitting $116.21. 686,641 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 1,502,899. The company has a current ratio of 2.53, a quick ratio of 1.08 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.32. The business’s fifty day simple moving average is $124.98 and its 200 day simple moving average is $128.31. The firm has a market cap of $17.42 billion, a P/E ratio of 11.82, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.05 and a beta of 1.35. Steel Dynamics has a 1 year low of $103.17 and a 1 year high of $155.56.

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.

Shares of NYSE IR traded up $2.18 on Tuesday, reaching $71.90. 915,225 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 2,554,467. Ingersoll Rand has a 12 month low of $65.61 and a 12 month high of $106.03. The company has a quick ratio of 1.71, a current ratio of 2.29 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.46. The company has a market cap of $28.98 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 34.80, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.50 and a beta of 1.40. The business’s 50 day simple moving average is $79.55 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $90.79.