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 better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and community ranking.
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 hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
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.
Bioceres Crop Solutions currently has a consensus price target of $19.00, indicating a potential upside of 71.95%. American Vanguard has a consensus price target of $16.67, indicating a potential upside of 74.34%. Given American Vanguard's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe American Vanguard is more favorable than Bioceres Crop Solutions.
In the previous week, American Vanguard had 3 more articles in the media than Bioceres Crop Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for American Vanguard and 5 mentions for Bioceres Crop Solutions. Bioceres Crop Solutions' average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat American Vanguard's score of 0.41 indicating that Bioceres Crop Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Bioceres Crop Solutions has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Vanguard has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
American Vanguard received 270 more outperform votes than Bioceres Crop Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.97% of users gave Bioceres Crop Solutions an outperform vote while only 61.22% of users gave American Vanguard an outperform vote.
Summary
American Vanguard beats Bioceres Crop Solutions on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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