Comparing Bioceres Crop Solutions (NASDAQ:BIOX) & Eastman Chemical (NYSE:EMN)

Eastman Chemical (NYSE:EMN) and Bioceres Crop Solutions (NASDAQ:BIOX) are both materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation and dividends.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Eastman Chemical and Bioceres Crop Solutions”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Eastman Chemical	$8.75 billion	0.86	$474.00 million	$3.84	17.13
Bioceres Crop Solutions	$333.30 million	0.08	-$55.42 million	($3.86)	-0.10

Eastman Chemical has higher revenue and earnings than Bioceres Crop Solutions. Bioceres Crop Solutions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Eastman Chemical, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Eastman Chemical	4.99%	9.46%	3.78%
Bioceres Crop Solutions	-92.85%	-33.97%	-10.31%

Volatility & Risk

Eastman Chemical has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bioceres Crop Solutions has a beta of 0.44, meaning that its stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Eastman Chemical and Bioceres Crop Solutions, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Eastman Chemical	0	8	6	0	2.43
Bioceres Crop Solutions	1	2	0	0	1.67

Eastman Chemical currently has a consensus price target of $79.17, suggesting a potential upside of 20.32%. Bioceres Crop Solutions has a consensus price target of $2.00, suggesting a potential upside of 400.00%. Given Bioceres Crop Solutions’ higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Bioceres Crop Solutions is more favorable than Eastman Chemical.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

83.7% of Eastman Chemical shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.7% of Bioceres Crop Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. 2.6% of Eastman Chemical shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Eastman Chemical beats Bioceres Crop Solutions on 13 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Eastman Chemical

Eastman Chemical Company operates as a specialty materials company in the United States, China, and internationally. The company's Additives & Functional Products segment offers amine derivative-based building blocks, intermediates for surfactants, metam-based soil fumigants, and organic acid-based solutions; specialty coalescent and solvents, paint additives, and specialty polymers; and heat transfer and aviation fluids. It serves transportation, personal care, wellness, food, feed, agriculture, building and construction, water treatment, energy, consumables, durables, and electronics markets. Its Advanced Materials segment provides copolyesters, cellulosic biopolymers, cellulose esters, polyvinyl butyral sheets, and window and protective films for value-added end uses in the transportation, durables, electronics, building and construction, medical and pharma, and consumables markets. The company's Chemical Intermediates segment offers olefin and acetyl derivatives, ethylene, and commodity solvents; and primary non-phthalate and phthalate plasticizers, and niche non-phthalate plasticizers for industrial chemicals and processing, building and construction, health and wellness, and food and feed. Its Fibers segment provides cellulose acetate tow, triacetin, cellulose acetate flake, acetic acid, and acetic anhydride for use in filtration media primarily cigarette filters; natural and solution dyed acetate yarns, and staple fiber for use in consumables, and health and wellness markets; and wet-laid nonwoven media, specialty and engineered papers, and cellulose acetate fibers for transportation, industrial, agriculture and mining, and aerospace markets. The company was founded in 1920 and is headquartered in Kingsport, Tennessee.

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.