Albemarle (NYSE:ALB) versus Bion Environmental Technologies (OTCMKTS:BNET) Head to Head Review

Bion Environmental Technologies (OTCMKTS:BNET) and Albemarle (NYSE:ALB) are both materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, valuation, earnings and dividends.

Risk and Volatility

Bion Environmental Technologies has a beta of 0.77, suggesting that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Albemarle has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for Bion Environmental Technologies and Albemarle, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Bion Environmental Technologies	0	0	0	0	0.00
Albemarle	2	9	15	0	2.50

Albemarle has a consensus target price of $190.04, indicating a potential upside of 50.22%. Given Albemarle’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Albemarle is more favorable than Bion Environmental Technologies.

Profitability

This table compares Bion Environmental Technologies and Albemarle’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Bion Environmental Technologies	N/A	N/A	-3,552.13%
Albemarle	3.09%	10.96%	5.39%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Bion Environmental Technologies and Albemarle”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Bion Environmental Technologies	N/A	N/A	-$2.38 million	($0.03)	-5.36
Albemarle	$5.14 billion	2.90	-$510.63 million	$0.27	468.56

Bion Environmental Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Albemarle. Bion Environmental Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Albemarle, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

0.4% of Bion Environmental Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.9% of Albemarle shares are owned by institutional investors. 39.2% of Bion Environmental Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Albemarle shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Albemarle beats Bion Environmental Technologies on 11 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Bion Environmental Technologies

Bion Environmental Technologies, Inc. develops patented and proprietary technology that provides waste treatment and resource recovery solutions for concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) in the United States and internationally. The company offers Gen3Tech, a third-generation technology and business/technology platform, which remediates environmental problems and improve operational/resource efficiencies through recovering co-products from the CAFOs’ waste stream, including renewable energy, fertilizer products, and clean water. It also focuses on the installation of its systems to retrofit and environmentally remediate existing CAFOs; development of waste treatment facilities; and licensing and/or joint venturing of its technology and applications. Bion Environmental Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 1987 and is based in Old Bethpage, New York.

About Albemarle

Albemarle Corporation develops, manufactures, and markets engineered specialty chemicals worldwide. It operates through three segments: Energy Storage, Specialties and Ketjen. The Energy Storage segment offers lithium compounds, including lithium carbonate, lithium hydroxide, and lithium chloride; technical services for the handling and use of reactive lithium products; and lithium-containing by-products recycling services. The Specialties segment provides bromine-based specialty chemicals, including elemental bromine, alkyl and inorganic bromides, brominated powdered activated carbon, and other bromine fine chemicals; lithium specialties, such as butyllithium and lithium aluminum hydride; develops and manufactures cesium products for the chemical and pharmaceutical industries; and zirconium, barium, and titanium products for pyrotechnical applications that include airbag initiators. The Ketjen segment offers clean fuels technologies (CFT), which is composed of hydroprocessing catalysts (HPC) together with isomerization and akylation catalysts; fluidized catalytic cracking (FCC) catalysts and additives; and performance catalyst solutions (PCS), which is composed of organometallics and curatives. The company serves the energy storage, petroleum refining, consumer electronics, construction, automotive, lubricants, pharmaceuticals, and crop protection markets. Albemarle Corporation was founded in 1887 and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.