Contrasting Australian Oilseeds (NASDAQ:COOT) & Archer-Daniels-Midland (NYSE:ADM)

Archer-Daniels-Midland (NYSE:ADM) and Australian Oilseeds (NASDAQ:COOT) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, dividends and institutional ownership.

Profitability

This table compares Archer-Daniels-Midland and Australian Oilseeds’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Archer-Daniels-Midland	2.10%	10.44%	4.78%
Australian Oilseeds	N/A	N/A	N/A

Insider and Institutional Ownership

78.3% of Archer-Daniels-Midland shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.0% of Australian Oilseeds shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of Archer-Daniels-Midland shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 57.7% of Australian Oilseeds shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk & Volatility

Archer-Daniels-Midland has a beta of 0.72, meaning that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Australian Oilseeds has a beta of -0.18, meaning that its share price is 118% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Archer-Daniels-Midland and Australian Oilseeds”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Archer-Daniels-Midland	$85.53 billion	0.26	$3.48 billion	$3.61	12.74
Australian Oilseeds	$22.12 million	1.49	-$14.21 million	N/A	N/A

Archer-Daniels-Midland has higher revenue and earnings than Australian Oilseeds.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for Archer-Daniels-Midland and Australian Oilseeds, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Archer-Daniels-Midland	2	7	0	0	1.78
Australian Oilseeds	0	0	0	0	0.00

Archer-Daniels-Midland currently has a consensus target price of $55.67, suggesting a potential upside of 21.08%. Given Archer-Daniels-Midland’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Archer-Daniels-Midland is more favorable than Australian Oilseeds.

Summary

Archer-Daniels-Midland beats Australian Oilseeds on 9 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Archer-Daniels-Midland

Archer-Daniels-Midland Company engages in the procurement, transportation, storage, processing, and merchandising of agricultural commodities, ingredients, flavors, and solutions in the United States, Switzerland, the Cayman Islands, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, the United Kingdom, and internationally. It operates in three segments: Ag Services and Oilseeds, Carbohydrate Solutions, and Nutrition. The company originates, merchandises, stores, and transports agricultural raw materials, such as oilseeds and soft seeds. It also engages in the agricultural commodity and feed product import, export, and distribution; and various structured trade finance activities. In addition, the company offers soybean meal and oil; vegetable and salad oils and protein meals; ingredients for the food, feed, energy, and industrial customers; margarine, shortening, and other food products; and partially refined oils to produce biodiesel and glycols for use in chemicals, paints, and other industrial products. Further, it provides peanuts, peanut-derived ingredients, and cotton cellulose pulp; sweeteners, corn and wheat starches, syrup, glucose, wheat flour, and dextrose; alcohol, and other food and animal feed ingredients; ethyl alcohol and ethanol; corn gluten feed and meal; distillers' grains; corn germ; and citric acids. Additionally, the company provides proteins, natural flavors, flavor systems, natural colors, emulsifiers, soluble fiber, polyols, hydrocolloids, probiotics, prebiotics, postbiotics, enzymes, and botanical extracts; and other specialty food and feed ingredients; edible beans; formula feeds, and animal health and nutrition products; and contract and private label pet treats and food products. It also offers futures commission merchant; commodity brokerage services; cash margins and securities pledged to commodity exchange clearinghouse; and cash pledged as security under certain insurance arrangements. The company was founded in 1902 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

About Australian Oilseeds

Australian Oilseeds Holdings Ltd. engages in the manufacture and sale oil seeds through its subsidiaries. It focuses on acquiring, engaging in a share exchange, share reconstruction, and amalgamation with, purchasing all or substantially all the assets of, entering contractual arrangements with, or engaging in any other similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities. The company was founded on December 29, 2022 and is headquartered in Cootamundra, Australia.