BV vs. AGRO, AVO, LND, VFF, AGFY, PFAI, LOCL, ORIS, NCRA, and SANW
Should you be buying BrightView stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BrightView include Adecoagro (AGRO), Mission Produce (AVO), BrasilAgro - Companhia Brasileira de Propriedades Agrícolas (LND), Village Farms International (VFF), Agrify (AGFY), Pinnacle Food Group (PFAI), Local Bounti (LOCL), Oriental Rise Holdings Limited Ordinary Shares (ORIS), Nocera (NCRA), and S&W Seed (SANW). These companies are all part of the "agriculture" industry.
BrightView vs. Its Competitors
BrightView (NYSE:BV) and Adecoagro (NYSE:AGRO) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.
92.4% of BrightView shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.3% of Adecoagro shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.2% of BrightView shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.7% of Adecoagro shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Adecoagro has lower revenue, but higher earnings than BrightView. BrightView is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Adecoagro, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Adecoagro has a net margin of 11.25% compared to BrightView's net margin of 2.64%. Adecoagro's return on equity of 10.14% beat BrightView's return on equity.
BrightView currently has a consensus price target of $17.41, indicating a potential upside of 12.50%. Adecoagro has a consensus price target of $10.55, indicating a potential upside of 13.81%. Given Adecoagro's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Adecoagro is more favorable than BrightView.
Adecoagro received 227 more outperform votes than BrightView when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.98% of users gave Adecoagro an outperform vote while only 36.36% of users gave BrightView an outperform vote.
BrightView has a beta of 1.26, meaning that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Adecoagro has a beta of 0.71, meaning that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, BrightView had 4 more articles in the media than Adecoagro. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for BrightView and 0 mentions for Adecoagro. Adecoagro's average media sentiment score of 1.76 beat BrightView's score of 0.45 indicating that Adecoagro is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Adecoagro beats BrightView on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (NYSE:BV) was last updated on 6/14/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
