Promising Agriculture Stocks To Keep An Eye On – April 24th

Chubb, Norfolk Southern, and Apollo Global Management are the three Agriculture stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. Agriculture stocks are shares of publicly traded companies whose primary business activities are rooted in the agricultural sector—such as farming, livestock production, fertilizer and seed manufacturing, farm machinery, and agritech services. Investors buy these stocks to gain exposure to the performance and growth prospects of global food production and related supply chains. 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.

Chubb stock traded down $2.13 during trading hours on Thursday, reaching $282.36. 922,343 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 1,630,277. The stock has a market cap of $113.14 billion, a P/E ratio of 12.43, a P/E/G ratio of 3.36 and a beta of 0.47. The firm’s 50 day moving average is $285.78 and its 200 day moving average is $281.10. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.21, a quick ratio of 0.28 and a current ratio of 0.25. Chubb has a 52-week low of $238.85 and a 52-week high of $306.91.

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.

NSC traded up $5.46 during trading on Thursday, reaching $227.41. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 801,032 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,259,105. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.16, a quick ratio of 0.82 and a current ratio of 0.90. The company’s fifty day moving average price is $231.67 and its 200-day moving average price is $245.20. Norfolk Southern has a 52-week low of $201.63 and a 52-week high of $277.60. The company has a market capitalization of $56.07 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 19.68, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.31 and a beta of 1.30.

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.

Shares of Apollo Global Management stock traded up $5.74 during trading on Thursday, reaching $132.29. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 1,335,530 shares, compared to its average volume of 3,803,364. The business has a 50 day moving average price of $135.86 and a 200-day moving average price of $153.05. The company has a market capitalization of $75.47 billion, a P/E ratio of 18.12, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.17 and a beta of 1.66. The company has a quick ratio of 1.44, a current ratio of 1.44 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.33. Apollo Global Management has a 12-month low of $95.11 and a 12-month high of $189.49.