Head-To-Head Comparison: Origin Agritech (NASDAQ:SEED) versus Bunge Global (NYSE:BG)

Origin Agritech (NASDAQ:SEED) and Bunge Global (NYSE:BG) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, earnings, dividends and institutional ownership.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current recommendations for Origin Agritech and Bunge Global, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Origin Agritech	1	0	0	0	1.00
Bunge Global	0	2	8	1	2.91

Bunge Global has a consensus price target of $132.67, indicating a potential upside of 17.20%. Given Bunge Global’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Bunge Global is more favorable than Origin Agritech.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

1.7% of Origin Agritech shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.2% of Bunge Global shares are held by institutional investors. 15.4% of Origin Agritech shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Bunge Global shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Origin Agritech and Bunge Global’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Origin Agritech	N/A	N/A	N/A
Bunge Global	1.10%	9.15%	3.43%

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Origin Agritech and Bunge Global”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Origin Agritech	$12.85 million	0.92	-$7.51 million	N/A	N/A
Bunge Global	$70.33 billion	0.31	$816.00 million	$5.15	21.98

Bunge Global has higher revenue and earnings than Origin Agritech.

Volatility and Risk

Origin Agritech has a beta of 1.52, indicating that its stock price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bunge Global has a beta of 0.65, indicating that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Bunge Global beats Origin Agritech on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Origin Agritech

Origin Agritech Limited, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an agricultural biotechnology in the People’s Republic of China. The company engages in the development and distribution of seed products; and research on genetically enhanced breeding technologies in agricultural crops. Its products include corn, soybean, canola, and rice seeds. The company is also involved in the development, production, and distribution of hybrid crop seeds, as well as develops hybrid seed technology. In addition, it operates an e-commerce platform. The company has a collaboration agreement with the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the National Maize Improvement Center, Henan Agriculture University, China Agricultural University, and Zhejiang University for seed genetic modifications and biotechnologies. Origin Agritech Limited was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Beijing, the People’s Republic of China.

About Bunge Global

Bunge Global SA operates as an agribusiness and food company worldwide. It operates through four segments: Agribusiness, Refined and Specialty Oils, Milling, and Sugar and Bioenergy. The Agribusiness segment purchases, stores, transports, processes, and sells agricultural commodities and commodity products, including oilseeds primarily soybeans, rapeseed, canola, and sunflower seeds, as well as grains comprising wheat and corn; and processes oilseeds into vegetable oils and protein meals. This segment offers its products for animal feed manufacturers, livestock producers, wheat and corn millers, and other oilseed processors, as well as third-party edible oil processing and biofuel companies for biofuel production applications. The Refined and Specialty Oils segment sells packaged and bulk oils and fats that comprise cooking oils, shortenings, margarines, mayonnaise, renewable diesel feedstocks, and other products for baked goods companies, snack food producers, confectioners, restaurant chains, foodservice operators, infant nutrition companies, and other food manufacturers, as well as grocery chains, wholesalers, distributors, and other retailers. This segment also refines and fractionates palm oil, palm kernel oil, coconut oil, and shea butter, and olive oil; and produces specialty ingredients derived from vegetable oils, such as lecithin. The Milling segment provides wheat flours and bakery mixes; corn milling products that comprise dry-milled corn meals and flours, wet-milled masa and flours, and flaking and brewer’s grits, as well as soy-fortified corn meal, corn-soy blends, and other products; whole grain and fiber ingredients; die-cut pellets; and non-GMO products. The Sugar and Bioenergy segment produces sugar and ethanol; and generates electricity from burning sugarcane bagasse. Bunge Global SA was founded in 1818 and is headquartered in Chesterfield, Missouri.