Top Agriculture Stocks To Watch Now – March 29th

Chubb, Deere & Company, Apollo Global Management, Steel Dynamics, and Norfolk Southern are the five Agriculture stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. Agriculture stocks are shares of companies involved in the cultivation, processing, and distribution of farm products, as well as those supplying equipment, fertilizers, and related services. These stocks offer exposure to the agricultural sector and its performance, which can be influenced by factors such as weather conditions, commodity prices, and government policies. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Agriculture stocks within the last several days.

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 down $2.00 during trading on Friday, hitting $296.36. 2,094,520 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 1,596,050. Chubb has a 1 year low of $238.85 and a 1 year high of $302.05. The stock has a 50 day moving average price of $279.26 and a 200 day moving average price of $281.50. The firm has a market cap of $118.67 billion, a P/E ratio of 13.04, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.36 and a beta of 0.66. The company has a current ratio of 0.25, a quick ratio of 0.28 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.21.

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.

Shares of NYSE:DE traded down $14.45 during midday trading on Friday, hitting $465.27. 1,183,544 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 1,400,727. The firm’s fifty day moving average price is $477.28 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $439.39. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.94, a quick ratio of 1.98 and a current ratio of 2.22. Deere & Company has a twelve month low of $340.20 and a twelve month high of $515.05. The company has a market cap of $126.28 billion, a PE ratio of 20.62, a P/E/G ratio of 2.14 and a beta of 1.01.

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 down $5.14 during mid-day trading on Friday, hitting $136.89. The company had a trading volume of 3,123,875 shares, compared to its average volume of 3,532,593. Apollo Global Management has a 1 year low of $95.11 and a 1 year high of $189.49. The business has a fifty day simple moving average of $152.47 and a 200-day simple moving average of $152.95. The company has a current ratio of 1.44, a quick ratio of 1.44 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.33. The firm has a market capitalization of $78.09 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 18.73, a PEG ratio of 1.17 and a beta of 1.66.

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.

NASDAQ STLD traded down $4.02 on Friday, reaching $123.97. The company had a trading volume of 2,337,322 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,453,366. The firm has a 50-day moving average of $128.46 and a 200-day moving average of $128.52. Steel Dynamics has a 1 year low of $104.60 and a 1 year high of $155.56. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.32, a current ratio of 2.53 and a quick ratio of 1.08. The firm has a market capitalization of $18.58 billion, a PE ratio of 12.65, a P/E/G ratio of 1.05 and a beta of 1.34.

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.

Norfolk Southern stock traded down $4.80 during midday trading on Friday, hitting $230.41. 835,254 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 1,210,036. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.16, a current ratio of 0.90 and a quick ratio of 0.82. The company has a 50 day moving average price of $245.28 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $249.14. The firm has a market cap of $52.17 billion, a P/E ratio of 19.93, a P/E/G ratio of 2.31 and a beta of 1.35. Norfolk Southern has a 1 year low of $206.71 and a 1 year high of $277.60.