Top Consumer Service Companies To Invest In Right Now

Top Consumer Service Companies To Invest In Right Now: Syngenta AG(SYT)

Syngenta AG, an agribusiness company, engages in the discovery, development, manufacture, and marketing of a range of products designed to enhance crop yields and food quality worldwide. The company operates in three segments: Crop Protection, Seeds, and Business Development. The Crop Protection segment offers herbicides for corn, cereals, soybean, and rice; fungicides for corn, cereals, fruits, grapes, rice, soybean, and vegetables; insecticides for fruits, vegetables, and field crops; seed care for corn, soybean, cereals, and cotton; and professional products, such as products for public health, and turf and ornamentals. This segment markets its products through independent distributors and dealers, agricultural consultants, and growers. The Seeds segment develops, produces, and markets seeds and plants based on advanced genetics and related technologies. This segment provides approximately 200 product lines and approximately 6,800 varieties of proprietary genetics, incl uding vegetables, flowers, corn, soybean, sugar beet, and sunflower primarily under the NK, Golden Harvest, Garst, HILLESHG, S&G, Rogers, Zeraim Gedera, and Fischer brand names. The Business Development segment engages in the development of enzymes and traits to enhance agronomic, nutritional, and biofuel properties of plants. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Rich Duprey]

  The invincibility of genetically modified crops may be starting to crumble under its own weight, withSyngenta (NYSE: SYT  ) being the latest biotech to stress-test their resilience.

• [By Matt DiLallo]

  What it's after is protecting its intellectual property, which drives profits. These court rulings help it maintain control over the commercial seed world which, when combined with DuPont and Syngenta (NYSE: SYT  ) , is 53% according to the ! CFS. Further, when you consider that around 93% of soybeans and north of 85% of corn in the United States comes from genetically modified seeds, you can understand just how vast the market is for its products. For Monsanto it represents about $2 billion in free cash flow each year.

• [By Rich Duprey]

  Not every crop is so protected. BetweenMonsanto,DuPont (NYSE: DD  ) , andSyngenta (NYSE: SYT  ) -- the "three sisters" of GMO seeds -- theycontrol 53% of the world's seed production, yet their control of our food supply is almost universal because of their cross-licensingagreements among themselves and with others, like Dow Chemical (NYSE: DOW  ) .

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