Key Takeaways ADM is set to report Q4 results, with EPS estimated at 83 cents, down 27.2% year over year.ADM's Ag Services, Oilseeds and Refined Products face soft margins from biofuel uncertainty and weak demand.ADM's Nutrition segment is a bright spot, aided by cost discipline, portfolio optimization and innovation.Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) is slated to report fourth-quarter 2025 results on Feb. 3, before market open. The company is likely to report a bottom-line decline when it posts the quart ...

This story was originally published on CFO Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily CFO Dive newsletter. In a one-two punch this week, the Securities and Exchange Commission finally showed its cards with regard to the scandal around intersegment sales accounting practices that has hung over Archer-Daniels-Midland for two years.  The SEC on Tuesday announced settled accounting and disclosure fraud charges against the Chicago-based grain trader giant and two former executives — ...

Wall Street analysts expect Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) to post quarterly earnings of $0.83 per share in its upcoming report, which indicates a year-over-year decline of 27.2%. Revenues are expected to be $22.31 billion, up 3.8% from the year-ago quarter.The current level reflects a downward revision of 22.2% in the consensus EPS estimate for the quarter over the past 30 days. This demonstrates how the analysts covering the stock have collectively reappraised their initial projections over this period.Befo ...

Core Viewpoint - Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) reached a $40 million settlement with the SEC to resolve allegations of defrauding investors by inflating profit margins in its nutrition segment [1][3]. Group 1: Settlement Details - The settlement concludes a regulatory investigation into ADM's accounting practices, which led to a significant decline in stock value and the departure of several top executives [3]. - ADM settled the case without admitting any wrongdoing [3]. Group 2: Allegations and Investigations - The SEC's case focused on actions taken between 2021 and 2022, where then-CFO Vikram Luthar allegedly directed accounting adjustments to inflate profits in the nutrition division [4]. - The SEC claims these adjustments were intended to misrepresent the success of the nutrition business, which ADM has heavily invested in through acquisitions [4]. Group 3: Individual Accountability - The SEC has filed a separate lawsuit against Luthar, alleging he directed the fraud and profited by selling over $1.8 million in ADM shares while the stock price was inflated [5]. - The SEC seeks to recover Luthar's gains, impose financial penalties, and bar him from serving as an officer or director of any public company [6]. Group 4: Company Response - ADM's CEO expressed satisfaction in moving past the investigation and reaffirmed the company's commitment to transparency and integrity [6]. - A separate criminal investigation by federal prosecutors has been closed without any charges being filed [6].

Archer Daniels Midland Co. (ADM) is back in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. In the 1990s, the agricultural giant was implicated in a price-fixing conspiracy that became the basis for the book—and later Matt Damon movie—The Informant!. Now the company’s latest controversy centers around accounting in the company’s nutrition unit. After an investigation lasting almost three years, ADM has reached a $40 million civil penalty settlement with the SEC, without admitting or denying wrongdoing, over ci ...

Bloomberg Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. agreed to pay $40 million to settle a two-year federal investigation into the crop giant’s accounting practices that rocked its share price and eroded faith in the company’s transparency. The civil penalty levied by the US Securities and Exchange Commission settles allegations that ADM and former executives engaged in accounting and disclosure fraud when they sought to boost the bottom line of ADM’s flailing nutrition business unit to meet the Chicago-based company’s ...

The settlement, along with the company’s efforts to improve and remediate its reporting processes, pave the way for ADM to move out from under the accounting cloud, according to Seth Goldstein, a Morningstar analyst. “To me, once you’re in the phase of settling with regulators that means the light’s at the end of the tunnel and you’re ready to move forward,” Goldstein said in an interview.The suit landed on the same day that the SEC announced that the Chicago-based grain trading giant agreed to pay a $40 mi ...

By Karl Plume and Chris Prentice WASHINGTON, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Grain trader Archer-Daniels-Midland Company will pay a $40 million civil penalty after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged it and two ​of its former executives with inflating the performance of a key business segment, the regulator ‌said on Tuesday. With the agreement, the U.S. Department of Justice closed a related criminal probe without bringing charges. The resolution concludes years-long government ‌investigations into ...

Washington, D.C.--(Newsfile Corp. - January 27, 2026) - The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed settled charges against Archer-Daniels-Midland Company (ADM) and its former executives, Vince Macciocchi and Ray Young, and a litigated action against its former executive Vikram Luthar, for materially inflating the performance of a key ADM business segment, Nutrition, which ADM touted to investors as an important driver of the company’s overall growth.The SEC’s complaint against Luthar alleges that h ...

Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, as may be updated in subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10- Q. For these statements, the Company claims the protection of the safe harbor for forward-looking statements in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. Accordingly, you are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are made. Except to the extent required by law, ADM does not undertake, and expressly disclaims, any duty or obligation t ...