Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM)

One word: ethanol.
It may not be the answer, but right now it's the most popular and most available option. Even if it doesn't work out, ADM has its hand in all manners of food processing with its foot in the heartland of America's breadbasket. It will see tremendous growth this year. I'm not so hot on it as a long term option just yet, though.

An old faithful that shouldn't disappoint

This wide-moat company includes two perennial sectors: food and energy. What a combination! And now this stock is identified by most investors as THE ethanol stock. After President Bush visited Brazil, to share technology and plan a joint strategy, this stock will certainly be a major player on the new energy scene.

People are always going to need food. They may cut out the luxuries in life when the market goes south, but people have to eat.

They are at levels not seen since 2005. This seems to be a situation where they have been unfairly punished.

Once the hype over ethanol subsides, so will ADM's stock price. You should all know that ethanol is not the answer to our energy problems.

The ethanol play has already been figured into the price for ADM stock. With the IPOs of other ethanol related companies last year, this value has been diluted. This is coupled with some uncertainty as to who will be the dominate players in this market.

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One of the largest players in Ethanol game and that is only fraction of their activity. I made money in ADM for over 10 years.

Once the average american realizes that ethanol is not an alternative to gasoline, and that the government is only pushing for more of it because it would lessen our dependencies on foreign oil; companies like ADM will be scrambling to reset their startegies offset the rising wheat prices. No one is producing wheat because there is more money in corn for ethanol.

I am long on the concept of cheap alcohol, but I think ethanol may put this one under fire.

Stock is low now, and they buy a lot of corn which is being investigated as a new fuel type!

the demand of ethanol and bio-diesel fuels

Ethanol is over-hyped

I am in for 3 years on this stock.

Corn = Ethanol
Malt = Beer
Chocolate = well Chocolate LOL

let her roll and see where the numbers fall.

ag play

Tacking the top ten rated stocks with the enviromentaly friendly tag

The majority of the bear pitches on ADM site Ethanol as thier reason. While it is true that ADM is a very large producer of ethonal. I think it unfair to judge them either positively or negatively on that alone. A brief review of ADM website indicates the scope and scale of this agricultural services giant. They are in the business of processing, transporting , and trading the worlds agricultural raw materials. To me it is clear the world needs more agricultaral output. It is also clear to me who will be turning this output into finished product , or at least more suitable inputs for finished products.
That will be ADM.