Peers Price Chg Day Year Date
Associated British Foods 1,915.00 10.00 0.52% 3.60% Feb/02
Archer-Daniels Midland 68.08 0.77 1.14% 36.11% Feb/02
Balchem 171.35 1.18 0.69% 6.50% Feb/02
Darling Ingredients 47.33 1.67 3.66% 30.28% Feb/02
Eastman Chemical 71.48 2.16 3.12% -29.08% Feb/02
General Mills 45.62 -0.64 -1.38% -23.80% Feb/02
International Flavors Fragrances 69.75 -0.06 -0.09% -19.27% Feb/02
Ingredion 117.31 -0.79 -0.67% -12.93% Feb/02
Kerry 74.25 -0.55 -0.74% -24.35% Feb/02
Lancaster Colony 173.91 2.34 1.36% 4.45% Feb/02

Indexes Price Day Year Date
USND 23592 130.29 0.56% 21.66% Feb/02
US2000 2640 26.57 1.02% 16.91% Feb/02

Balchem traded at $171.35 this Monday February 2nd, increasing $1.18 or 0.69 percent since the previous trading session. Looking back, over the last four weeks, Balchem gained 9.77 percent. Over the last 12 months, its price rose by 6.50 percent. Looking ahead, we forecast Balchem to be priced at 164.93 by the end of this quarter and at 150.15 in one year, according to Trading Economics global macro models projections and analysts expectations.

Balchem Corporation is engaged in developing, manufacturing, distributing and marketing of specialty performance ingredients and products for the nutritional, food, pharmaceutical, animal health, medical device sterilization, plant nutrition and industrial markets. The Company operates through three business segments: Human Nutrition & Health, Animal Nutrition & Health, and Specialty Products. The Human Nutrition & Health (HNH) segment provides human grade choline nutrients and mineral amino acid chelated products through this segment for nutrition and health applications. HNH segment also serves the food and beverage industry for beverage, bakery, dairy, confectionary, and savory manufacturers. Its Animal Nutrition & Health (ANH) segment provides nutritional products derived from its microencapsulation and chelation technologies in addition to basic choline chloride. The Specialty Products segment sells ethylene oxide as a sterilant gas primarily for use in the healthcare industry.