BIOX vs. AVD, CBUS, CGA, EVGN, SNES, NITO, SVFD, UAN, NTR, and CF
Should you be buying Bioceres Crop Solutions stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bioceres Crop Solutions include American Vanguard (AVD), Cibus (CBUS), China Green Agriculture (CGA), Evogene (EVGN), SenesTech (SNES), N2OFF (NITO), Save Foods (SVFD), CVR Partners (UAN), Nutrien (NTR), and CF Industries (CF). These companies are all part of the "agricultural chemicals" industry.
Bioceres Crop Solutions (NASDAQ:BIOX) and American Vanguard (NYSE:AVD) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, profitability and valuation.
17.7% of Bioceres Crop Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.0% of American Vanguard shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of Bioceres Crop Solutions shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.1% of American Vanguard shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
American Vanguard received 273 more outperform votes than Bioceres Crop Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.67% of users gave Bioceres Crop Solutions an outperform vote while only 61.13% of users gave American Vanguard an outperform vote.
Bioceres Crop Solutions has higher earnings, but lower revenue than American Vanguard. American Vanguard is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bioceres Crop Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
American Vanguard has a net margin of 1.22% compared to Bioceres Crop Solutions' net margin of 0.21%. American Vanguard's return on equity of 2.20% beat Bioceres Crop Solutions' return on equity.
In the previous week, American Vanguard had 3 more articles in the media than Bioceres Crop Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for American Vanguard and 0 mentions for Bioceres Crop Solutions. American Vanguard's average media sentiment score of 1.77 beat Bioceres Crop Solutions' score of 0.00 indicating that American Vanguard is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Bioceres Crop Solutions currently has a consensus price target of $23.00, suggesting a potential upside of 115.36%. American Vanguard has a consensus price target of $18.00, suggesting a potential upside of 107.61%. Given Bioceres Crop Solutions' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Bioceres Crop Solutions is more favorable than American Vanguard.
Bioceres Crop Solutions has a beta of 0.59, meaning that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Vanguard has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
American Vanguard beats Bioceres Crop Solutions on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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