Archer Daniels Midland (NYSE:ADM) & Norway Royal Salmon AS (OTCMKTS:NRYYF) Financial Comparison

Norway Royal Salmon AS (OTCMKTS:NRYYF) and Archer Daniels Midland (NYSE:ADM) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, valuation, analyst recommendations and dividends.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

78.3% of Archer Daniels Midland shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Archer Daniels Midland shares are owned 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.

Profitability

This table compares Norway Royal Salmon AS and Archer Daniels Midland’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Norway Royal Salmon AS	N/A	N/A	N/A
Archer Daniels Midland	2.16%	9.21%	3.95%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for Norway Royal Salmon AS and Archer Daniels Midland, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Norway Royal Salmon AS	0	0	0	0	0.00
Archer Daniels Midland	1	5	1	1	2.25

Archer Daniels Midland has a consensus target price of $79.67, indicating a potential upside of 0.72%. Given Archer Daniels Midland’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Archer Daniels Midland is more favorable than Norway Royal Salmon AS.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Norway Royal Salmon AS and Archer Daniels Midland”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Norway Royal Salmon AS	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Archer Daniels Midland	$80.27 billion	0.47	$1.08 billion	$3.65	21.67

Archer Daniels Midland has higher revenue and earnings than Norway Royal Salmon AS.

Summary

Archer Daniels Midland beats Norway Royal Salmon AS on 10 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Norway Royal Salmon AS

Norway Royal Salmon ASA produces, harvests, sells, and markets smolt and salmon products in Norway. The company offers fresh and frozen salmon fish, round fish, fillet, portions, and smoked and marinated products. It also exports its products to 48 countries. Norway Royal Salmon ASA was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Trondheim, Norway. Norway Royal Salmon AS operates as a subsidiary of NTS ASA.

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.