Archer Daniels Midland Company

ADM Consumer Defensive Farm Products

Archer Daniels Midland Company’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $80.3 billion, down 6.15% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+9.64%
EPS
+675.7%
Free cash flow
−91.4%
Total debt
−0.37%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

70.47 0.37 −0.52%
Market cap
$33.5B
P/E
13.7×
Fwd P/E
14.2×
Dividend yield
2.94%
F-score
5/9
Altman Z
2.94
Beneish M
−3.00
Dividend safety
65/100

Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) Return on assets

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Archer Daniels Midland Company's return on assets over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 4.63%, up 2.6 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (2.04%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 2.04% (fiscal 2025) to 7.49% (fiscal 2022) — the current reading is the lowest in ten years. That is above the Farm Products industry median of 0.00% and above the Consumer Defensive sector median of 0.45%.

Return on assets, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Return on assets Change (points)
FY2025 2.04% (1.30)
FY2024 3.34% (2.75)
FY2023 6.09% (1.40)
FY2022 7.49% 2.37
FY2021 5.12% 1.34
FY2020 3.78% 0.53
FY2019 3.25% (1.23)
FY2018 4.48% 0.48
FY2017 4.00% 0.80
FY2016 3.20% (1.19)

Against its own ten years

Low 2.04% High 7.49%
Ten-year median 4.00%
Current reading's percentile 9

Return on assets against peers

Company Return on assets
VFF Village Farms International, Inc. compare 5.46%
ADM Archer Daniels Midland Company 4.63%
DMC Del Monte Corporation compare 2.49%
BG Bunge Global SA compare 2.42%
CALM Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. compare 1.89%
TSN Tyson Foods, Inc. compare 1.59%
DOLE Dole PLC compare 1.30%
AGRO Adecoagro S.A. compare 1.16%
VITL Vital Farms, Inc. compare −4.32%
Farm Products industry median 0.00%
Consumer Defensive sector median 0.45%
Market median 0.00%

What Return on assets is

ROA tells an investor how much profit a company earns for shareholders from the assets it uses to run its business.

Annual: Net Income Allotted to Shareholders ÷ Average Assets; TTM: Net Income Allotted to Shareholders ÷ Average Assets (latest quarter)

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