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Bunge Limited is a farm products business based in the US. Bunge shares (BG) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Bunge employs 25,000 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$39.6 billion.
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Latest market close | USD$58.81 |
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52-week range | USD$28.0425 - USD$66.71 |
50-day moving average | USD$61.4755 |
200-day moving average | USD$49.9722 |
Wall St. target price | USD$72.13 |
PE ratio | 18.0601 |
Dividend yield | USD$2 (3.11%) |
Earnings per share (TTM) | USD$3.562 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $58.81 from 2020-11-10
1 week (2021-01-15) | -16.77% |
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1 month (2020-12-23) | -9.13% |
3 months (2020-10-23) | 4.98% |
6 months (2020-07-23) | 31.33% |
1 year (2020-01-23) | 5.77% |
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2 years (2019-01-23) | 11.66% |
3 years (2018-01-23) | 80.57 |
5 years (2016-01-22) | 59.93 |
Valuing Bunge stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Bunge's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Bunge's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 18x. In other words, Bunge shares trade at around 18x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
Bunge's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.7053. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Bunge's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Bunge's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$3.2 billion.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Bunge's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
Revenue TTM | USD$39.6 billion |
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Operating margin TTM | 6.88% |
Gross profit TTM | USD$2.3 billion |
Return on assets TTM | 8.64% |
Return on equity TTM | 9.62% |
Profit margin | 1.37% |
Book value | $33.205 |
Market capitalisation | USD$9 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
There are currently 3.3 million Bunge shares held short by investors – that's known as Bunge's "short interest". This figure is 13% up from 2.9 million last month.
There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Bunge shares can be evaluated.
Bunge's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Bunge shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Bunge shares traded daily (recently around 1.3 million). Bunge's SIR currently stands at 2.58. In other words for every 100,000 Bunge shares traded daily on the market, roughly 2580 shares are currently held short.
However Bunge's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Bunge shares, or, against the total number of tradable Bunge shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Bunge's short interest could be expressed as 0.02% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Bunge shares in existence, roughly 20 shares are currently held short) or 0.0313% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Bunge shares, roughly 31 shares are currently held short).
Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Bunge.
Find out more about how you can short Bunge stock.
Environmental, social and governance (known as ESG) criteria are a set of three factors used to measure the sustainability and social impact of companies like Bunge.
When it comes to ESG scores, lower is better, and lower scores are generally associated with lower risk for would-be investors.
Total ESG risk: 32.85
Socially conscious investors use ESG scores to screen how an investment aligns with their worldview, and Bunge's overall score of 32.85 (as at 01/01/2019) is pretty weak – landing it in it in the 72nd percentile of companies rated in the same sector.
ESG scores are increasingly used to estimate the level of risk a company like Bunge is exposed to within the areas of "environmental" (carbon footprint, resource use etc.), "social" (health and safety, human rights etc.), and "governance" (anti-corruption, tax transparency etc.).
Environmental score: 10.68/100
Social score: 13.14/100
Governance score: 4.03/100
Controversy score: 3/5
ESG scores also evaluate any incidences of controversy that a company has been involved in. Bunge scored a 3 out of 5 for controversy – a middle-of-the-table result reflecting that Bunge hasn't always managed to keep its nose clean.
Bunge Limited was last rated for ESG on: 2019-01-01.
Total ESG score | 32.85 |
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Total ESG percentile | 71.88 |
Environmental score | 10.68 |
Social score | 13.14 |
Governance score | 4.03 |
Level of controversy | 3 |
Dividend payout ratio: 31.85% of net profits
Recently Bunge has paid out, on average, around 31.85% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 3.11% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Bunge shareholders could enjoy a 3.11% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Bunge's case, that would currently equate to about $2 per share.
While Bunge's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that Bunge may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.
Bunge's most recent dividend payout was on 2 March 2021. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 12 February 2021 (the "ex-dividend date").
Over the last 12 months, Bunge's shares have ranged in value from as little as $28.0425 up to $66.71. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Bunge's is 0.7265. This would suggest that Bunge's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
Bunge Limited operates as an agribusiness and food company worldwide. It operates in five segments: Agribusiness, Edible Oil Products, Milling Products, Sugar and Bioenergy, and Fertilizer. The Agribusiness segment purchases, stores, transports, processes, and sells agricultural commodities and commodity products, including oilseeds primarily soybeans, rapeseed, canola, and sunflower seeds, as well as grains primarily wheat and corn; and vegetable oils and protein meals. It provides its products for animal feed manufacturers, livestock producers, wheat and corn millers, and other oilseed processors, as well as third-party edible oil processing companies; and for industrial and biodiesel production applications. The Edible Oil Products segment provides packaged and bulk oils and fats, including cooking oils, shortenings, margarines, mayonnaise, and others for baked goods companies, snack food producers, confectioners, restaurant chains, foodservice operators, infant nutrition companies, and other food manufacturers, as well as grocery chains, wholesalers, distributors, and other retailers. The Milling Products segment offers wheat flours and bakery mixes; corn milling products that include dry-milled corn meals and flours, wet-milled masa and flours, and flaking and brewer's grits, as well as soy-fortified corn meal, corn-soy blends, and other products; whole grain and fiber ingredients; and milled rice products. The Sugar and Bioenergy segment produces sugar and ethanol; and generates electricity from burning sugarcane bagasse. The Fertilizer segment offers nitrogen, phosphate, and potassium fertilizers; and SSP, ammonia, ammonium thiosulfate, monoammonium phosphate, diammonium phosphate, triple supersphosphate, urea, urea-ammonium nitrate, ammonium sulfate, and potassium chloride. The company was founded in 1818 and is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.
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