ADM Directors Vote to Increase Cash Dividend

Business Wire 5-Feb-2019 7:05 AM

Archer Daniels Midland Company's (NYSE:ADM) Board of Directors has declared a cash dividend of 35.0 cents per share on the company's common stock, a 4.5 percent increase from last quarter's dividend of 33.5 cents per share. The dividend is payable on March 12, 2019, to shareholders of record on Feb. 19, 2019.

This is ADM's 349th consecutive quarterly payment, a record of 87 years of uninterrupted dividends. As of Dec. 31, 2018, there were 558,990,582 shares of ADM common stock outstanding.

About ADM

For more than a century, the people of Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE:ADM) have transformed crops into products that serve the vital needs of a growing world. At the end of 2018, we were one of the world's largest agricultural processors and food ingredient providers, with approximately 32,000 employees serving customers in more than 170 countries. With a global value chain that includes approximately 450 crop procurement locations, 270 food and feed ingredient manufacturing facilities, 46 innovation centers and the world's premier crop transportation network, we connect the harvest to the home, making products for food, animal feed, industrial and energy uses. Learn more at www.adm.com.

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