Hello fellow investors 👋

Post #10 out of #51, where I introduce you to the stocks in my portfolio.

It's a long time since I don't post about this series, so I am thrilled to start again with one of my favorite stocks. Probably few know this cause it's not such a big name in the everyday stock market chit-chat, but believe me, this is a great business.

The company is Archer-Daniels-Midland.

It's a food processing and commodity trading company based in Chicago with businesses worldwide. Unless you are a farmer, you are probably not dealing with them, and you don't see their products on the shelf in the supermarket.

The stock's performance, especially in such a period, is stellar.

But this is not just simple price-performance; the company has been growing revenues and margin in the last years, showing a strong momentum after mid-2020. So the last report (Q1.2022) was especially good for us shareholders.

As you see above, $ADM operates under three main lines of business:

The company is well-positioned concerning the Ukrainian-Russian conflict, having no operations in Russian Federation. Nowadays, I think this is important to check a company's global footprint due to the very complex geopolitical scenario. As you can see from the map below, $ADM is extremely diversified across North/South America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania.

Last but not least, $ADM is also a powerful dividend machine: increasing dividends for 28 straight years.

As you can see from the dividend yield chart, the stock is historically very expensive, and for such a reason, I am not increasing my position right now. At the moment, $ADM represents 3.63% of my Dividend Portfolio, with an actual return of +131% (without dividends)

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