Agrium Inc. Fundamental Company Report Including Financial, SWOT, Competitors and Industry Analysis

Agrium Inc. Fundamental Company Report provides a complete overview of the company’s affairs. All available data is presented in a comprehensive and easily accessed format. The report includes financial and SWOT information, industry analysis, opinions, estimates, plus annual and quarterly forecasts made by stock market experts. The report also enables direct comparison to be made between Agrium Inc. and its competitors. This provides our Clients with a clear understanding of Agrium Inc. position in the Chemical Industry.

Scope

• The report contains the company’s profile and data about the owners, senior executives, locations, subsidiaries, markets, products, and company history.
• The SWOT-analysis provides information about the company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and possible threats against it.
• The report outlines the main financial ratios pertaining to profitability, margin analysis, asset turnover, credit ratios, and company’s long-term solvency.
• It also shows the company’s income statement and ratio trend-charts, with balance sheets and cash flows presented on an annual and quarterly basis.
• Company’s financial ratios are directly compared with those of its competitors through industry averages.
• The report provides relevant news, an analysis of PR-activity, and stock price movements.
• The latter are correlated with pertinent news and press releases, and annual and quarterly forecasts are given by a variety of experts and market research firms.

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About Agrium Inc.

Agrium, Inc. engages in retailing of agricultural products and services in the United States, Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. The company also produces and markets nutrients for agricultural and industrial markets.

Segments

The company operates through three segments: Retail, Wholesale, and Advanced Technologies.

Retail segment

Retail business unit markets crop nutrients, crop protection products, seeds, custom application and other agronomic services to customers through 826 outlets in the U.S., Canada, Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. The Retail business unit’s market is primarily retail sales directly to farm customers, but also includes significant wholesale activity of crop protection products to other retail operations through the company’s acquisition of UAP. The company offers custom crop nutrient application services and employs a fleet of application and nurse equipment to custom-apply these nutrients at the prescribed rates. Many of the company’s crop nutrient application rigs are also capable of precision application using global positioning system (GPS) technology, which allows nutrient application rates to be adjusted when required based on GPS grid soil sample test results.

Agrium’s Retail business unit offers agronomic services in addition to the custom application services and soil and petiole testing previously mentioned. The Company owns and operates a laboratory in California where soil and petiole tests are performed. In its Western U.S. sales regions the Company uses a system of weather tracking stations to monitor crop disease conditions and irrigation requirements in high-value crops.

Wholesale

Wholesale business unit manufactures, purchases, and markets a range of nutrients including nitrogen-based, potash and phosphate-based crop nutrient products. Wholesale owns and operates five major North American nitrogen facilities, four located in Alberta, Canada and one in Borger, Texas, U.S. The majority of the nitrogen produced in Alberta is sold in Western Canada and the North Western and Northern Plains regions of the U.S. Nitrogen products from Borger are sold in the Texas Panhandle area and ammonia is sold by pipeline from Texas to the Western Cornbelt. Wholesale has a 50 percent joint venture ownership in a major nitrogen facility located in Bahia Blanca, Argentina (Profertil). Product from Profertil is sold within Argentina and to other South American destinations. The company also owns and operates various facilities that upgrade ammonia and urea to other products, such as urea ammonium nitrate (UAN) solutions and nitric acid.

Wholesale owns and operates a potash mine and production facility at Vanscoy, Saskatchewan, Canada. The company’s Redwater, Alberta facility produces sulphur and phosphate-based fertilizers. A second phosphate-based fertilizer production facility and phosphate rock mine are located at Conda, Idaho, U.S. Products produced at these plants are primarily marketed within North America.

Advanced Technologies

Advanced Technologies business unit comprises crop nutrient technologies and professional products, including the controlled-release crop nutrient and professional products businesses of Nu-Gro and Pursell, as well as the business unit’s legacy controlled-release and micronutrient products. Advanced Technologies utilizes urea produced at the company’s Wholesale Carseland facility in their production of ESN and Duration.

Crop nutrient technologies include the manufacturing and marketing of controlled-release crop nutrients and micronutrients that are sold to the crop nutrient industry worldwide. Agrium’s Advanced Technologies business unit has arrangements with distributors in North America. Controlled-release and micronutrient technology products are produced in four production facilities located in the U.S. at Sylacauga, Alabama; and Reese, Michigan; and in Canada at Courtright, Ontario and Carseland, Alberta.

Professional products include the sale of controlled-release nutrients and pest control products, primarily in North America, to the professional turf market (golf courses and lawn care companies) horticultural market (greenhouse, nursery, specialty agriculture), and the structural pest control industry (residential and commercial structures). Professional products are marketed through a network of distributors through a direct to market approach. Professional products are purchased from suppliers or produced in three production facilities located in the U.S. at Sylacauga, Alabama; and in Canada at Brighton, Ontario and Putnam, Ontario.

New Products

In 2008, Advanced Technologies launched XCU into the marketplace.

History

Agrium, Inc. was founded in 1931. The company was formerly known as Cominco Fertilizers, Ltd. and changed its name to Agrium, Inc. in 1995.

Contents

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

DISCLAIMER

1. AGRIUM INC. COMPANY PROFILE

1.1. Key facts
1.2. Financial Performance
1.3. Key Executives
1.4. Ownership and Major Holders
1.5. Company History

2. AGRIUM INC. BUSINESS OVERVIEW

2.1. Business Description
2.2. Major Products and Services
2.3. Markets and Sales Activities
2.4. Locations, Subsidiaries, Operating Units

3. AGRIUM INC. SWOT ANALYSIS

3.1. Overview
3.2. Strengths
3.3. Weaknesses
3.4. Opportunities
3.5. Threats

4. AGRIUM INC. FINANCIAL ANALYSIS

4.1. Financial Statements
  4.1.1. Income Statement
  4.1.2. Balance Sheet
  4.1.3. Cash Flow
4.2. Financial Ratios
  4.2.1. Profitability
  4.2.2. Margin Analysis
  4.2.3. Asset Turnover
  4.2.4. Credit Ratios
  4.2.5. Long-Term Solvency
  4.2.6. Growth Over Prior Year
  4.2.7. Financial Ratios Charts
4.3. Stock Market Snapshot

5. AGRIUM INC. COMPETITORS AND INDUSTRY ANALYSIS

5.1. Agrium Inc. Direct Competitors
5.2. Comparison of Agrium Inc. and Direct Competitors Financial Ratios
5.3. Comparison of Agrium Inc. and Direct Competitors Stock Charts
5.4. Agrium Inc. Industry Analysis
  5.4.1. Chemicals Industry Snapshot
  5.4.2. Agrium Inc. Industry Position Analysis

6. AGRIUM INC. NEWS & EVENTS

6.1. News & PR Activity Analysis
6.2. IR Corporate News
6.3. Marketing News
6.4. Corporate Events

7. AGRIUM INC. EXPERTS REVIEW

7.1. Experts Opinion
7.2. Experts Estimates

APPENDIX 1: RATIO DEFINITIONS

LIST OF TABLES

Table 1. Agrium Inc. Key Facts
Table 2. Agrium Inc. Profitability
Table 3. Agrium Inc. Management Effectiveness
Table 4. Agrium Inc. Income Statement Key Figures
Table 5. Agrium Inc. Balance Sheet Key Figures
Table 6. Agrium Inc. Cash Flow Statement Key Figures
Table 7. Financial Performance Abbreviation Guide
Table 8. Agrium Inc. Key Executives
Table 9. Agrium Inc. Key Executives Biographies *
Table 10. Agrium Inc. Key Executives Compensations *
Table 11. Agrium Inc. Key Executives Stock Options *
Table 12. Agrium Inc. Major Shareholders
Table 13. Agrium Inc. History
Table 14. Agrium Inc. Products
Table 15. Agrium Inc. Revenues by Product
Table 16. Agrium Inc. Revenues by Region
Table 17. Agrium Inc. Offices and Representations
Table 18. Agrium Inc. SWOT Analysis
Table 19. Agrium Inc. Income Statement 2008-2011 Including 4-years Trends
Table 20. Agrium Inc. Income Statement Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
Table 21. Agrium Inc. Balance Sheet 2008-2011 Including Trends
Table 22. Agrium Inc. Balance Sheet Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
Table 23. Agrium Inc. Cash Flow 2008-2011 Including Trends
Table 24. Agrium Inc. Cash Flow Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
Table 25. Agrium Inc. Profitability Ratios
Table 26. Agrium Inc. Margin Analysis Ratios
Table 27. Agrium Inc. Asset Turnover Ratios
Table 28. Agrium Inc. Credit Ratios
Table 29. Agrium Inc. Long-Term Solvency Ratios
Table 30. Agrium Inc. Financial Ratios Growth Over Prior Year
Table 31. Agrium Inc. Capital Market Snapshot
Table 32. Agrium Inc. Direct Competitors Key Facts
Table 33. Agrium Inc. Direct Competitors Profitability Ratios
Table 34. Agrium Inc. Direct Competitors Margin Analysis Ratios
Table 35. Agrium Inc. Direct Competitors Asset Turnover Ratios
Table 36. Agrium Inc. Direct Competitors Credit Ratios
Table 37. Agrium Inc. Direct Competitors Long-Term Solvency Ratios
Table 38. Chemicals Industry Statistics
Table 39. Agrium Inc. Industry Position
Table 40. Agrium Inc. vs. Industry Income Statement Analysis
Table 41. Agrium Inc. vs. Industry Balance Sheet Analysis
Table 42. Agrium Inc. vs. Industry Cash Flow Analysis
Table 43. Agrium Inc. vs. Industry Ratios Comparison
Table 44. Agrium Inc. Consensus Recommendations*
Table 45. Agrium Inc. Analyst Recommendation Summary*
Table 46. Agrium Inc. Price Target Summary*
Table 47. Agrium Inc. Experts Recommendation Trends*
Table 48. Agrium Inc. Revenue Estimates Analysis*
Table 49. Agrium Inc. Earnings Estimates Analysis*
Table 50. Agrium Inc. Historical Surprises*
Table 51. Agrium Inc. Revenue Estimates Trend*
Table 52. Agrium Inc. Earnings Estimates Trend*
Table 53. Agrium Inc. Revenue Revisions*
Table 54. Agrium Inc. Earnings Revisions*

LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 1. Agrium Inc. Annual Revenues in Comparison with Cost of Goods Sold and Gross Profit
Figure 2. Agrium Inc. Profit Margin Chart
Figure 3. Agrium Inc. Operating Margin Chart
Figure 4. Agrium Inc. Return on Equity (ROE) Chart
Figure 5. Agrium Inc. Return on Assets (ROA) Chart
Figure 6. Agrium Inc. Debt to Equity Chart
Figure 7. Agrium Inc. Current Ratio Chart
Figure 8. Agrium Inc. 1-year Stock Charts
Figure 9. Agrium Inc. 5-year Stock Charts
Figure 10. Agrium Inc. vs. Main Indexes 1-year Stock Chart
Figure 11. Agrium Inc. vs. Direct Competitors 1-year Stock Charts
Figure 12. Agrium Inc. Article Density Chart

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