Performance of Publicly Traded Agricultural Companies Since 2000: Construction of the AgIndex

Gary Schnitkey () and Clayton Kramer

Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2012, vol. 44, issue 3, 11

Abstract: The crop farming sector has been relatively profitable in the past several years, whereas the general economy has gone through a great deal of turmoil. In this research, we constructed an AgIndex, which tracked the stock prices of publicly traded companies dealing with agriculture performed since 2000. As a group, the market values of publicly traded firms within the AgIndex exceeded those of Standard & Poors 500 (S&P 500) since 2000. Returns were higher for agricultural firms compared with S&P 500 firms. Performance varied across agricultural sectors with fertilizer and seed companies performing the best.

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Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.130275

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