Monsanto Company – Reaffirms FY12 earnings at Investor Day

Monsanto Company (NYSE:MON). Last Market Price: 73.56, Change: +1.63, % Change: (2.27%). Shares trade in the range of 71.53 – 73.80 dollars. It has a market capitalization of 39.34B dollars, making it a Large Cap Stock and has 534.74M outstanding shares. The company has a beta of 0.95, indicating, the stock to be less volatile than the market. As per the most recent quarterly report, the net income per share (EPS) is 2.91; P/E of 25.24 indicating high expected future growth in earnings. It operates in Basic Materials sector and belongs to Chemical Manufacturing industry. Percentage shares held by institutional investors is 82%. The company has a 52 week Price range (low – high) of $ 57.56 – 78.71. Average volumes of shares traded daily are 5,460,000. Volume traded in the last session was at 2,070,000, 0.38 times the average volume.

• At its Investor Day, company reaffirms FY12 EPS of $3.34-3.44
• Company sees Q1 EPS at high end of $0.10-0.15

For Q3 (Aug ’11), It had a Net profit margin of -4.32%, an Operating margin of -3.16%. Other Key stats and ratios are : Return on average assets of -1.95%, Return on average equity of -3.80%. The organization has an employee strength of 21,400

Consensus Recommendation is a Outperform.

Estimate for sales for the Quarter Ending Nov-11 show a mean of 2,000.27 million dollars, an estimate high of 2,209.50 million dollars and an estimate low of 1,920.00 million dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 1,985.00 million dollars.

Estimate for sales for the Quarter Ending Feb-12 show a mean of 4,531.78 million dollars, an estimate high of 4,667.12 million dollars and an estimate low of 4,373.93 million dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 4,471.50 million dollars.

Estimate for EPS for the Quarter Ending Nov-11 show a mean of 0.12 dollars, an estimate high of 0.15 dollars and an estimate low of 0.08 dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 0.05 dollars.

Estimate for EPS for the Quarter Ending Feb-12 show a mean of 2.11 dollars, an estimate high of 2.21 dollars and an estimate low of 1.95 dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 2.18 dollars.

Sales for Quarter Ending Aug-11 was estimated at 1,802.62 million dollars, however the actual sales figure stood at 2,247.00 million dollars, 444.38 million dollars more than estimates.

Sales for Quarter Ending May-11 was estimated at 3,362.40 million dollars, however the actual sales figure stood at 3,590.00 million dollars, 227.6 million dollars more than estimates.

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