Top Agriculture Stocks To Watch Now – February 16th

Deere & Company, Ingersoll Rand, Chubb, Apollo Global Management, and Corteva are the five Agriculture stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. Agriculture stocks are shares of publicly traded companies involved in the production, processing, and distribution of agricultural products such as crops, livestock, and food. Investing in agriculture stocks allows investors to participate in the performance of the agricultural sector and potential trends in supply and demand for food and agricultural commodities. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Agriculture stocks within the last several days.

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 up $13.95 during trading hours on Friday, reaching $480.17. The stock had a trading volume of 1,919,266 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,347,099. The company has a current ratio of 2.09, a quick ratio of 1.90 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.89. The firm has a market cap of $130.77 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 18.76, a P/E/G ratio of 2.87 and a beta of 0.98. The business’s fifty day moving average price is $446.95 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $416.52. Deere & Company has a 52-week low of $340.20 and a 52-week high of $485.84.

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.

NYSE:IR traded down $6.76 during trading hours on Friday, reaching $85.79. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 7,441,849 shares, compared to its average volume of 2,111,534. The company has a market capitalization of $34.58 billion, a P/E ratio of 41.85, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.66 and a beta of 1.43. Ingersoll Rand has a 12 month low of $83.72 and a 12 month high of $106.03. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.46, a quick ratio of 1.71 and a current ratio of 2.36. The stock has a 50 day moving average price of $92.75 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $95.16.

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.

NYSE:CB traded down $3.25 during trading hours on Friday, reaching $264.49. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 1,919,749 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,785,017. The company has a market capitalization of $106.62 billion, a P/E ratio of 11.64, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.41 and a beta of 0.67. Chubb has a 12 month low of $238.85 and a 12 month high of $302.05. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.21, a quick ratio of 0.28 and a current ratio of 0.25. The stock has a 50 day moving average price of $271.54 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $279.61.

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 $5.03 during trading hours on Friday, reaching $162.95. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 2,665,760 shares, compared to its average volume of 3,235,579. The stock has a 50 day moving average price of $167.64 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $146.12. The company has a market capitalization of $92.20 billion, a P/E ratio of 22.29, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.28 and a beta of 1.63. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.33, a quick ratio of 1.44 and a current ratio of 1.44. Apollo Global Management has a 12 month low of $95.11 and a 12 month high of $189.49.

Corteva (CTVA)

Corteva, Inc. operates in the agriculture business. It operates through two segments, Seed and Crop Protection. The Seed segment develops and supplies advanced germplasm and traits that produce optimum yield for farms. It offers trait technologies that enhance resistance to weather, disease, insects, and herbicides used to control weeds, as well as food and nutritional characteristics.

Shares of CTVA stock traded up $1.14 during trading hours on Friday, reaching $64.00. 3,906,167 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 3,806,061. The stock’s 50 day moving average is $60.39 and its 200-day moving average is $58.49. The company has a market cap of $43.99 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 49.61, a P/E/G ratio of 1.85 and a beta of 0.78. The company has a current ratio of 1.45, a quick ratio of 0.96 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.08. Corteva has a fifty-two week low of $50.01 and a fifty-two week high of $66.24.