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Yahoo
11 hours ago
- Business
- Yahoo
The Andersons, Inc. (ANDE) Announces Q3 2025 Dividend of $0.195 per share
With upside potential and strong hedge fund interest, The Andersons, Inc. (NASDAQ:ANDE) is included in our list of the . Pixabay/Public Domain On June 19, 2025, The Andersons, Inc. (NASDAQ:ANDE) announced a Q3 2025 dividend of $0.195 per share, which is its 115th consecutive quarterly payout since it was listed in 1996. This dividend payment, payable on July 22 to shareholders of record as of July 1, comes amid a mixed outlook for the company. On May 5, 2025, BMO Capital initiated its coverage of The Andersons, Inc. (NASDAQ:ANDE) with a 'Market Perform' rating and a $45 price target. Relative to the company's current share price of $36.43, this price target represents an upside potential of 23.52%. The company's Agribusiness and Renewables segments have been undergoing challenges in recent times, but the analyst highlighted strength in its Nutrient & Industrial division, bolstered by fertilizer profits and strategic investments like Skyland Grain. Given the company's share price nearing its 52-week low and its low price-to-earnings ratio, the analyst believes the stock is undervalued. With its Trade, Renewables, and Nutrient & Industrial segments, The Andersons, Inc. (NASDAQ:ANDE) is a diversified agribusiness that offers grain trading, ethanol, and plant nutrient solutions globally. Under its plant nutrient offerings, the company also provides potash-based fertilizers. It is included in our list of the best potash stocks. While we acknowledge the potential of ANDE as an investment, we believe certain AI stocks offer greater upside potential and carry less downside risk. If you're looking for an extremely undervalued AI stock that also stands to benefit significantly from Trump-era tariffs and the onshoring trend, see our free report on the best short-term AI stock. READ NEXT: 14 Cheap Transportation Stocks to Buy According to Analysts and 10 Cheap Lithium Stocks to Buy According to Hedge Funds. Disclosure: None.
Yahoo
12 hours ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Cosan S.A. (CSAN) Leads Energy Integration in South America with Historic Argentine Gas Import
We recently compiled a list of Cosan S.A. ranks tenth on our list of the best future stocks. Cosan S.A. (NYSE:CSAN), a Brazilian conglomerate founded in 1936, operates across energy, agribusiness, logistics, oil and gas, and natural gas distribution. Through key subsidiaries like Raízen (bioenergy), Rumo (rail logistics), Compass (natural gas), and Moove (lubricants), the business plays a central role in Brazil's energy transition by connecting agricultural production to export hubs and investing in cleaner fuels. In 2025, Cosan S.A. (NYSE:CSAN) strengthened its leadership in regional energy with a landmark move: its subsidiary Edge completed Brazil's first import of Argentine natural gas via Bolivia. This initiative enhances supply flexibility and promotes energy integration in South America, aligning with Brazil's cleaner energy goals. The company also focused on portfolio optimization by divesting non-core assets, including its stake in Vale, while acquiring DIPI Holdings S.A. to boost its logistics platform. A major corporate restructuring streamlined operations and improved investor transparency. Operationally, Cosan S.A. (NYSE:CSAN) faced a fire at its Moove lubricants plant in Rio de Janeiro. Thanks to an agile, asset-light approach and insurance coverage for repairs, disruptions were minimized, preserving financial stability. A technician inspecting a bundle of natural gas piping in a refinery. The company continues to invest in sustainable growth. Its joint venture, Raízen, is expanding renewable fuel production, and Rumo is developing efficient agri-export corridors. These efforts reflect Cosan S.A. (NYSE:CSAN)'s broader commitment to decarbonization and energy resilience. While we acknowledge the potential of GOOGL as an investment, we believe certain AI stocks offer greater upside potential and carry less downside risk. If you're looking for an extremely undervalued AI stock that also stands to benefit significantly from Trump-era tariffs and the onshoring trend, see our free report on the best short-term AI stock. READ NEXT: The Best and Worst Dow Stocks for the Next 12 Months and 10 Unstoppable Stocks That Could Double Your Money. Disclosure: None. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Mail & Guardian
19 hours ago
- Business
- Mail & Guardian
Award-winning exploitation: South Africa's sustainability façade unmasked
Rural people are dispossessed and displaced by companies that collect awards for ESG credentials, corporate social investment and sector excellence. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G) In October 2022, I attended a three-day retreat with professionals responsible for environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices from South Africa's leading mining, banking and agribusiness companies at a luxury venue. They were candid, even embarrassed. They admitted ESG had become a game, a box-ticking, scorecard-manipulating charade. 'We give our best advice, but it's never acted on because ESG professionals are not core to the business,' one said. That moment haunts me. It showed how polished corporate reports and PR hide uncomfortable truths beneath a veneer of responsibility. This year, I heard those harsh truths firsthand. In Citrusdal in the Cederberg and across the Matzikama municipality, families are illegally evicted after decades of working the land. In Grabouw, I walked through Lebanon, a forgotten plantation village where forestry dwellers live with raw sewage running down streets, no title deeds or tenure security. Companies profit from the land while people suffer. In Riebeek Valley in the Swartland municipality, farm workers and dwellers lack running water and legal protection. Those who speak up risk being targeted, fired and evicted. These stories expose the harsh reality behind the veneer of corporate 'responsibility'. This system sacrifices people for profit. These are not exceptions and they reveal the hollow meaning of responsibility when profit comes first. At the Surplus People Project, we work with rural communities dispossessed and displaced by companies that collect awards for ESG credentials, corporate social investment (CSI) and sector excellence. This gap between public praise and lived experience shows a profound failure. Corporate South Africa has cycled through corporate social responsibility, corporate social investment, stakeholder engagement and now ESG reporting. Each rebrand promises ethical business and social progress, yet behind the labels lies the same extractive behaviour. It is polished and packaged, but it exploits rural people all the same. Across corporate, civil society and state institutions, CSI, ESG and related frameworks often serve as reputational shields rather than tools for real change. They manage reputations instead of transforming systems that respect humanity and protect our ecological heritage. The myth of responsible business is not only misleading, it is dangerous. It cloaks structural harm in the language of progress, keeping those most affected invisible. Most ESG reporting focuses on easy-to-measure metrics such as carbon emissions, board diversity and community donations. These numbers, although important, are limited and have become proxies allowing businesses to tick boxes without confronting systemic change. Meanwhile, the state routinely fails to enforce laws. The departments looking after agriculture, land reform and rural development and the employment and labour department allow illegal evictions to continue unchecked. Equity schemes collapse. Laws such as the Extension of Security of Tenure Act exist only on paper. This failure exposes a state unwilling to challenge entrenched economic interests maintaining inequality. For many middle-class urban South Africans, these rural realities are invisible. Yet our food systems, wine and fruit exports, pension funds and shopping habits are tangled in supply chains sustaining rural worker exploitation. If you have bought a bottle of wine, eaten supermarket fruit or invested in a 'responsible' fund, your money is part of this story. You are complicit in exploitation. Corporate social responsibility, corporate social investment and ESG are not enough unless they become frameworks for justice, redress, dignity and genuine stakes in the benefits of workers' labour. Anything less reproduces slave-like conditions. Corporate South Africa will not fix this with statistics or awards. Empty gestures, hashtags and glossy reports won't cut it. We need a decisive break from extractive practices and an end to symbolic benevolence that conceals exploitation. We do not need charity disguised as innovation. We need justice rooted in policy, practice and governance that honours dignity, equity and meaningful participation by those affected. The state already has legal frameworks, albeit limited and skewed towards business interests, and the budget to act. Laws protecting farm workers and dwellers exist, as do policies for land reform and labour rights. What is missing is the political will to enforce these protections. The deliberate refusal to uphold the law in rural areas is a conscious choice that serves corporate interests over vulnerable people. We are told progress takes time. That may be true, but it is easy to say from boardrooms far removed from fields where workers face harmful pesticides, where women labour long hours without toilets and many live in legal limbo and are denied unemployment benefits. For these people, progress is decades too late. Without genuine enforcement to uphold laws and policies that should protect workers and ensure accountability, ESG's promises of accountability ring hollow. It does not heal; it deepens the wounds corporates pretend to address. Charity soothes the wound. Justice closes it. Don't just do good. Dismantle what causes harm. Brian Adams is the chief executive of Surplus People Project.
Zawya
6 days ago
- Business
- Zawya
West African advisers to boost agribusiness e-commerce
Small agribusinesses in Nigeria and Côte d'Ivoire are eager to tap into regional markets, but limited digital skills and poor access to online platforms hold them back. Without targeted support, these businesses struggle to embrace e-commerce and expand beyond their local base. To close this gap, the International Trade Centre trained national advisors and support institutions to help agribusinesses go digital and sell across borders. Many small agribusinesses in West Africa face barriers to reaching broader markets due to poor digital skills, low online visibility, and little access to e-commerce. These challenges hold back their potential to scale and engage in regional trade. To help close this gap, the International Trade Centre (ITC), under its ECOWAS Agricultural Trade (EAT) programme, organized a regional training of trainers in April in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. The five-day workshop brought together six newly appointed e-commerce advisors (three from each country) and eight representatives from business support organizations in Nigeria and Côte d'Ivoire. They received the tools and knowledge to support 30 agribusinesses—15 in each country—to trade online across the region. The participating advisors were selected for their potential to act as national champions for e-commerce capacity building. They were joined by eight representatives from four partner business support organizations: the National Association of Nigerian Traders (NANTS) and the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Côte d'Ivoire (CCI-CI) and the National Chamber of Agriculture of Côte d'Ivoire (CNA-CI). This diverse mix fostered strong cross-border peer learning and established the foundation for sustained collaboration between national institutions. 'In my view, agro-processors will need this hands-on training to increase their visibility," said Ibrahima Bamba, Agricultural Advisor at the National Chamber of Agriculture of Côte d'Ivoire. Anuoluwapo Odubanjo, e-commerce Advisor for Nigeria added: 'Thanks to this training, I'm ready to support agribusinesses in developing tailored e-commerce strategies—from choosing the right platforms to managing online sales—so they can scale up their operations." The training covered digital marketing, online payment systems, shipping logistics, and customer service. Using interactive tools such as real-life case studies and peer learning, the sessions fostered collaboration and built confidence among participants. The impact is evident: 11 participants reported a significant improvement in their skills, and many left with action plans to support small businesses in their communities. From training rural entrepreneurs to helping businesses list on e-commerce platforms, the new advisors are ready to make a tangible impact. Since its launch in 2018, the programme has worked to bridge digital gaps and promote trade-ready agribusinesses in West Africa. By investing in local expertise, ITC's EAT programme is laying the groundwork for a more inclusive and digitally connected agricultural economy in West Africa. Distributed by APO Group on behalf of International Trade Centre.
Yahoo
20-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
$700M soybean crushing operation to start in Nebraska's David City by late August
Ag Processing Inc. (AGP) held a ceremonial grand opening for its new soybean processing complex in David City, Nebraska. The facility is on a nearly 275-acre site and is to process more than 50 million bushels of soybeans a year. (Courtesy of AGP) LINCOLN — A new soybean crushing facility that owners say brings a $700 million investment to Nebraska's David City and will support 80 jobs is set to launch commercial operations by the end of August. On a site that spans nearly 275 acres, the Ag Processing Inc. plant at full speed is expected to process 50 million bushels of soybeans and produce 700 million pounds of refined soybean oil. Such byproducts are used for animal feed, cooking and biofuel. The operation about an hour northwest of Nebraska's capital city, will be the 11th soybean processing location for AGP, an agribusiness headquartered in Omaha and owned by local and regional cooperatives representing farms and producers across the U.S. A spokesman said the latest plant location, announced in 2022, was chosen largely for proximity to cooperative members, a reliable supply of soybeans, workforce and transportation access. Infrastructure was another factor, said AGP's Michael Dolch, as the grounds include 2.5 miles of paved roads and nearly 13.6 miles of rail track. 'As a cooperative, AGP's mission is to add value to our members' soybeans by processing the beans into meal and oil, selling those products in the open market, and returning the earnings to our local owners,' Board Chair Dean Thernes said in a statement. He said David City adds to AGP's midwestern processing capabilities and improves its competitive edge in domestic and international markets for the growing industry. The cooperative's last soybean processing plant opened six years ago in Aberdeen, South Dakota. State leaders including Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen joined AGP members and industry representatives on Thursday for a ceremonial grand opening. Pillen talked about Nebraska's reliance on agriculture and said the new plant would consume more than 15% of the state's soybeans grown. 'AGP's processing facility is creating fantastic opportunities for our soybean farmers and bringing rewarding careers to David City,' he said. 'This plant … improves the basis for local markets and puts more cash in producers' pockets.' AGP managers credited local support for helping the project to materialize. 'With the amount of rail track on site, AGP will load a unit train of 110 cars every three to four days. We will be able to hold a loaded unit train, receive an empty unit train and continue to build a third unit train of soybean meal,' said Lou Rickers, chief operations officer. SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX Solve the daily Crossword
