Financial Review: Archer Daniels Midland (NYSE:ADM) versus N2OFF (NASDAQ:NITO)

Archer Daniels Midland (NYSE:ADM) and N2OFF (NASDAQ:NITO) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, risk, profitability and dividends.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

78.3% of Archer Daniels Midland shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.2% of N2OFF shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Archer Daniels Midland shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.0% of N2OFF shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Archer Daniels Midland and N2OFF”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Archer Daniels Midland	$85.53 billion	0.34	$1.80 billion	$2.27	26.30
N2OFF	$210,000.00	34.61	-$5.19 million	N/A	N/A

Archer Daniels Midland has higher revenue and earnings than N2OFF.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Archer Daniels Midland and N2OFF, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Archer Daniels Midland	1	5	1	0	2.00
N2OFF	0	0	0	0	0.00

Archer Daniels Midland presently has a consensus price target of $54.7143, indicating a potential downside of 8.35%. Given Archer Daniels Midland’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Archer Daniels Midland is more favorable than N2OFF.

Profitability

This table compares Archer Daniels Midland and N2OFF’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Archer Daniels Midland	1.33%	8.43%	3.55%
N2OFF	-2,417.47%	-207.22%	-150.80%

Volatility and Risk

Archer Daniels Midland has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, N2OFF has a beta of 1.77, indicating that its share price is 77% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Archer Daniels Midland beats N2OFF on 9 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Archer Daniels Midland

Archer-Daniels-Midland Company engages in the procurement, transportation, storage, processing, and merchandising of agricultural commodities, ingredients, flavors, and solutions in the United States, Switzerland, the Cayman Islands, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, the United Kingdom, and internationally. It operates in three segments: Ag Services and Oilseeds, Carbohydrate Solutions, and Nutrition. The company originates, merchandises, stores, and transports agricultural raw materials, such as oilseeds and soft seeds. It also engages in the agricultural commodity and feed product import, export, and distribution; and various structured trade finance activities. In addition, the company offers soybean meal and oil; vegetable and salad oils and protein meals; ingredients for the food, feed, energy, and industrial customers; 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, it 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; corn germ; and citric acids. Additionally, the company provides proteins, natural flavors, flavor systems, natural colors, emulsifiers, soluble fiber, polyols, hydrocolloids, probiotics, prebiotics, postbiotics, 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 food products. It also offers futures commission merchant; commodity brokerage services; cash margins and securities pledged to commodity exchange clearinghouse; and cash pledged as security under certain insurance arrangements. The company was founded in 1902 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

About N2OFF

N2OFF, Inc., an agri-food tech company, engages in the development and sale of eco-friendly green solutions for the food industry to enhance food safety and shelf life of fresh produce. Its products are based on proprietary blend of food acids combined with various oxidizing agent-based sanitizers and low concentrated fungicides for cleaning, sanitizing, and controlling pathogens on fresh produce that are safer for human consumption and extend their shelf life by reducing their decay. The company’s products include SavePROTECT or PeroStar, a processing aid for post-harvest application that is added to fruit and vegetable wash water; and SF3HS and SF3H, a post-harvest cleaning and sanitizing solution to control plant and foodborne pathogens. It also offers SpuDefender for controlling post-harvest potato sprouts; and FreshProtect to control spoilage-creating microorganisms on post-harvest citrus fruit. The company was formerly known as Save Foods, Inc. and changed its name to N2OFF, Inc. in March 2024. N2OFF, Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Hod HaSharon, Israel.