Hot Managed Healthcare Companies For 2016

Hot Managed Healthcare Companies For 2016: Archer-Daniels-Midland Company(ADM)

Archer Daniels Midland Company procures, transports, stores, processes, and merchandises agricultural commodities and products in the United States and internationally. It operates in three segments: Oilseeds Processing, Corn Processing, and Agricultural Services. The Oilseeds Processing segment engages in originating, merchandising, crushing, and processing oilseeds, such as soybeans, cottonseed, sunflower seeds, canola, rapeseed, peanuts, flaxseed, and palm into vegetable oils and protein meals. This segment also produces edible soy protein products, including soy flour, soy grits, soy protein concentrates, soy isoflavones, and soy isolates that are used in processed meats, baked foods, nutritional products, snacks, and dairy and meat analogs. The Corn Processing segment involves in corn wet milling and dry milling activities; and produces alcohol, amino acids, and other specialty food and animal feed ingredients, as well as ethyl alcohol. This segment also produces citr ic and lactic acids, lactates, sorbitol, xanthan gum, and glycols that are used in various food and industrial products, as well as astaxanthin, a product used in aquaculture to enhance flesh coloration. The Agricultural Services segment buys, stores, cleans, and transports agricultural commodities, such as oilseeds, corn, wheat, milo, oats, rice, and barley, as well as resells these commodities as food and feed ingredients for the agricultural processing industry. This segment also processes and distributes edible beans, formula feeds, and animal health and nutrition products. In addition, the company engages in milling wheat, corn, and milo into flour, as well as produces bakery products and mixes, wheat starch, gluten, and cocoa products that are sold to the baking industry; and involves in financial activities related to private equity fund investments! , and futures commission merchant activities. Archer Daniels Midland Company was founded in 1898 and is based in Decatur , Illinois.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Sean Williams]

  1. Archer Daniels Midland (NYSE: ADM  )
  One the simplest and smartest ways to seek companies with strong growth prospects is to look for business tied to basic-needs goods and services. Archer Daniels Midland fits that bill perfectly, as it's involved in the food processing business, and the demand for food around the globe is only set to increase.

• [By Paul Vigna]

  Archer Daniels Midland Co.(ADM) said its third-quarter earnings rose 60% led by operating profit growth in agricultural-services and corn-processing units.

• [By Tom Rojas and Maria Armental var popups = dojo.query(".socialByline .popC"); ]

  Golden Peanut Co., a unit of Archer Daniels Midland Co.(ADM), is expanding its reach with the purchase of Georgia pecan processor Harrell Nut Co.

  Morgan Stanley named former Central Intelligence Agency executive Jami Miscik to its board, replacing retiring, longtime board member Griff Sexton.

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