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CHS Inc. (CHSCM)

Consumer Defensive

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Fundamental
3
Sentiment
2
Technical
2

Do Nothing: CHSCM fails the liquidity floor (avgDollarVolume20 428042.51 < 5000000), has an active dividend blackout from the 2026-06-15 ex-date (0.42188 USD = 1.70% of input price), and the chart itself only scores 2/5.

Analysis as of 2026-08-13· more than 2 trading days ago

Company overview

CHS Inc. is an integrated agricultural company providing grains, foods, and energy resources across multiple continents. It operates through segments including Energy, Ag, Nitrogen Production, and Foods, offering products like refined fuels, lubricants, and propane.

Fundamental

fair
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Cyclical challenges

CHS Inc. faces cyclical profitability challenges with adequate liquidity but weak interest coverage.

Cyclical ag/energy cooperative with ongoing preferred dividends and acceptable liquidity, but FY2025 profitability weakened materially and operating interest coverage is low.

Sentiment

weak
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Slightly negative

Sentiment is slightly negative with no immediate catalysts and flat retail interest.

No clear announced 1–30 trading-day catalyst surfaced for CHSCM; recent coverage is slightly negative around Minnesota elevator closure/sale plans and sentiment is roughly flat versus the 30–90d baseline. Legal/court discovery showed no cases and no regulator-confirmed investigations (investigation text-extraction failed), so no red-flag cap is applied.

Technical

weak
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Weak technicals

CHSCM shows weak technical indicators with low liquidity and no actionable setup.

CHSCM earns a 2/5 technical score because the latest close/live quote near 24.74 is below SMA20 24.95, SMA50 24.97, SMA200 24.95, EMA9 24.84, and EMA21 24.91. Momentum is soft with RSI14 42.59, Williams %R -66.13, and MACD at -0.06 below its -0.02 signal and below zero. ADX14 is high at 69.37, but that reflects persistence of the recent downslope rather than bullish strength because price remains under the moving-average stack; the only mild positive is that price is hovering just above daily VWAP 24.72 in a very tight range.

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