Bioceres Crop Solutions (BIOX) Competitors

Safehold (NYSE:SAFE) and Bioceres Crop Solutions (NASDAQ:BIOX) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, profitability and valuation.

Which has preferable earnings & valuation, SAFE or BIOX?

Safehold has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Bioceres Crop Solutions. Safehold 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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Safehold	$370.15M	2.94	$105.76M	$1.46	10.40
Bioceres Crop Solutions	$407.73M	0.73	$3.24M	$0.02	237.45

Which has more risk & volatility, SAFE or BIOX?

Safehold has a beta of 1.86, indicating that its share price is 86% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bioceres Crop Solutions has a beta of 0.4, indicating that its share price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in SAFE or BIOX?

70.4% of Safehold shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.7% of Bioceres Crop Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.5% of Safehold shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of Bioceres Crop Solutions shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the media favor SAFE or BIOX?

In the previous week, Safehold had 2 more articles in the media than Bioceres Crop Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Safehold and 6 mentions for Bioceres Crop Solutions. Bioceres Crop Solutions' average media sentiment score of 1.84 beat Safehold's score of 0.35 indicating that Bioceres Crop Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Safehold	3 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Bioceres Crop Solutions	2 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive

Do analysts prefer SAFE or BIOX?

Safehold currently has a consensus price target of $23.50, suggesting a potential upside of 54.80%. Bioceres Crop Solutions has a consensus price target of $8.63, suggesting a potential upside of 81.62%. Given Bioceres Crop Solutions' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Bioceres Crop Solutions is more favorable than Safehold.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Safehold	0 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50
Bioceres Crop Solutions	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	2 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.33

Is SAFE or BIOX more profitable?

Safehold has a net margin of 28.92% compared to Bioceres Crop Solutions' net margin of 0.58%. Safehold's return on equity of 4.76% beat Bioceres Crop Solutions' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Safehold	28.92%	4.76%	1.65%
Bioceres Crop Solutions	0.58%	0.68%	0.28%

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in SAFE or BIOX?

Safehold received 191 more outperform votes than Bioceres Crop Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 79.07% of users gave Bioceres Crop Solutions an outperform vote while only 55.01% of users gave Safehold an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Safehold	Outperform Votes 225 55.01%	Underperform Votes 184 44.99%
Bioceres Crop Solutions	Outperform Votes 34 79.07%	Underperform Votes 9 20.93%

Summary

Safehold beats Bioceres Crop Solutions on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.