Head-To-Head Comparison: Bioceres Crop Solutions (BIOX) vs. Its Competitors

Bioceres Crop Solutions (NASDAQ:BIOX) is one of 295 public companies in the “Chemicals” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its rivals? We will compare Bioceres Crop Solutions to related businesses based on the strength of its risk, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability and valuation.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings for Bioceres Crop Solutions and its rivals, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Bioceres Crop Solutions	1	1	0	0	1.50
Bioceres Crop Solutions Competitors	3241	12199	14118	516	2.40

Bioceres Crop Solutions currently has a consensus target price of $2.00, indicating a potential upside of 841.18%. As a group, “Chemicals” companies have a potential upside of 6.46%. Given Bioceres Crop Solutions’ higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Bioceres Crop Solutions is more favorable than its rivals.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

17.7% of Bioceres Crop Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.5% of shares of all “Chemicals” companies are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of Bioceres Crop Solutions shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 13.9% of shares of all “Chemicals” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility and Risk

Bioceres Crop Solutions has a beta of 0.54, suggesting that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bioceres Crop Solutions’ rivals have a beta of 0.93, suggesting that their average stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Bioceres Crop Solutions and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Bioceres Crop Solutions	-94.76%	-39.11%	-9.45%
Bioceres Crop Solutions Competitors	-59.66%	0.26%	-1.43%

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Bioceres Crop Solutions and its rivals top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Bioceres Crop Solutions	$238.30 million	-$54.40 million	-0.06
Bioceres Crop Solutions Competitors	$7.98 billion	$222.31 million	-0.66

Bioceres Crop Solutions’ rivals have higher revenue and earnings than Bioceres Crop Solutions. Bioceres Crop Solutions is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its rivals, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Summary

Bioceres Crop Solutions rivals beat Bioceres Crop Solutions on 11 of the 12 factors compared.

About Bioceres Crop Solutions

Bioceres Crop Solutions Corp., together with its subsidiaries, provides crop productivity solutions. It operates through Seed and Integrated Products, Crop Protection, and Crop Nutrition segments. The Seed and Integrated Products segment provides seed traits, germplasms, and seed treatment packs for healthier, and higher yielding crops. The Crop Protection segment develops, produces, and markets Rizoderma, adjuvants, therapies, herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, and baits. The Crop Nutrition segment develops, produces, commercializes, and sells inoculants, bio-inductors, and biological and microgranulated fertilizers. It also offers HB4, a drought tolerant seed technology program. The company operates in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Estonia, the United States, Paraguay, Russia, South Africa, France, Uruguay, and internationally. Bioceres Crop Solutions Corp. was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Rosario, Argentina.