Adecoagro (NYSE:AGRO – Get Free Report) and Cibus (NASDAQ:CBUS – Get Free Report) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Adecoagro and Cibus”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Adecoagro | $1.43 billion | 0.99 | $92.34 million | ($0.08) | -176.33 |
| Cibus | $3.64 million | 36.98 | -$251.39 million | ($2.98) | -0.83 |
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Adecoagro and Cibus, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Adecoagro | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Cibus | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
Adecoagro presently has a consensus price target of $9.20, indicating a potential downside of 34.78%. Cibus has a consensus price target of $15.00, indicating a potential upside of 504.84%. Given Cibus’ higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Cibus is more favorable than Adecoagro.
Profitability
This table compares Adecoagro and Cibus’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Adecoagro | -0.55% | -1.17% | -0.46% |
| Cibus | -3,492.30% | -174.58% | -29.48% |
Volatility and Risk
Adecoagro has a beta of 0.44, indicating that its share price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cibus has a beta of 1.62, indicating that its share price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
45.3% of Adecoagro shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.8% of Cibus shares are held by institutional investors. 6.7% of Adecoagro shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 31.2% of Cibus shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Adecoagro beats Cibus on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Adecoagro
Adecoagro S.A. operates as an agro-industrial company in South America. The company mainly operates through three segments: Farming; Sugar, Ethanol and Energy; and Land Transformation. It engages in farming crops, rice and other agricultural products, dairy operations, and land transformation activities, as well as sugar, ethanol, and energy production activities. The company is involved in the planting, harvesting, and sale of grains, oilseeds, and fibers, including wheat, corn, soybeans, peanuts, cotton, sunflowers, and others; provision of grain warehousing/conditioning, handling, and drying services to third parties; and purchase and sale of crops produced by third parties. It also plants, harvests, processes, and markets rice; and produces and sells raw milk, UHT, cheese, and powder milk. In addition, the company engages in the cultivating and transforming of sugarcane into ethanol, sugar, and electricity. Further, it is involved in the identification and acquisition of underdeveloped and undermanaged farmland, and the realization of value through the strategic disposition of assets. Adecoagro S.A. was founded in 2002 and is based in Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
About Cibus
Cibus, Inc., a agricultural biotechnology company, develops and licenses plant traits to seed companies for royalties. The company primarily focus on trait productivity in two areas, including productivity traits that enable farmers to have higher yields and reduce the use of the crop protection chemicals and fertilizers; and sustainable ingredients that enable corporations to replace ingredients that are fossil fuel based or whose production results in increased greenhouse gases. Cibus, Inc. is based in San Diego, California.
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