Comparing Bioceres Crop Solutions (BIOX) and Its Competitors

Bioceres Crop Solutions (NASDAQ:BIOX) is one of 296 public companies in the “Chemicals” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare Bioceres Crop Solutions to similar businesses based on the strength of its risk, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability and dividends.

Earnings & Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Bioceres Crop Solutions	$238.30 million	-$258.15 million	-0.06
Bioceres Crop Solutions Competitors	$7.96 billion	$229.42 million	20.56

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

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Bioceres Crop Solutions	-94.76%	-41.35%	-9.55%
Bioceres Crop Solutions Competitors	-54.07%	-0.31%	-1.28%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for Bioceres Crop Solutions and its peers, 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	3271	12237	14147	520	2.39

Bioceres Crop Solutions currently has a consensus price target of $2.00, suggesting a potential upside of 759.48%. As a group, “Chemicals” companies have a potential upside of 6.73%. Given Bioceres Crop Solutions’ higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Bioceres Crop Solutions is more favorable than its peers.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

17.7% of Bioceres Crop Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.4% of shares of all “Chemicals” companies are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of Bioceres Crop Solutions shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 13.7% of shares of all “Chemicals” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk and Volatility

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’ peers have a beta of 0.94, suggesting that their average stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

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

About Bioceres Crop Solutions

Bioceres Crop Solutions Corp. is an Argentina-based agricultural biotechnology company focused on developing technologies that improve crop productivity, resilience and sustainability. The company serves farmers and agricultural businesses through products designed to support crop establishment, nutrition, protection and performance under challenging environmental conditions. Its portfolio includes the HB4 biotechnology platform, which is used in drought-tolerant wheat and soybean varieties, as well as biological seed treatments, microbial inoculants, biofertilizers, biostimulants and biological crop-protection products.