EVGN vs. CGA, SNES, NITO, SVFD, UAN, MBII, AVD, NTR, CF, and MOS
Should you be buying Evogene stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Evogene include China Green Agriculture (CGA), SenesTech (SNES), N2OFF (NITO), Save Foods (SVFD), CVR Partners (UAN), Marrone Bio Innovations (MBII), American Vanguard (AVD), Nutrien (NTR), CF Industries (CF), and Mosaic (MOS).
China Green Agriculture (NYSE:CGA) and Evogene (NASDAQ:EVGN) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, risk and institutional ownership.
China Green Agriculture has a beta of 0.49, meaning that its share price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Evogene has a beta of 1.4, meaning that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.
0.1% of China Green Agriculture shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.4% of Evogene shares are held by institutional investors. 34.3% of China Green Agriculture shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.4% of Evogene shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
China Green Agriculture has a net margin of -27.43% compared to China Green Agriculture's net margin of -233.66%. Evogene's return on equity of -22.74% beat China Green Agriculture's return on equity.
Evogene received 26 more outperform votes than China Green Agriculture when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.19% of users gave Evogene an outperform vote while only 55.14% of users gave China Green Agriculture an outperform vote.
China Green Agriculture has higher revenue and earnings than Evogene. Evogene is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than China Green Agriculture, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Evogene's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled China Green Agriculture'saverage media sentiment score.
Evogene has a consensus target price of $3.62, indicating a potential upside of 438.19%. Given China Green Agriculture's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Evogene is more favorable than China Green Agriculture.
Summary
Evogene beats China Green Agriculture on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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