Bioceres Crop Solutions (BIOX) & Its Rivals Financial Analysis

Bioceres Crop Solutions (NASDAQ:BIOX) is one of 19 public companies in the “Agricultural 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, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, valuation and dividends.

Risk & Volatility

Bioceres Crop Solutions has a beta of 0.42, suggesting that its share price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bioceres Crop Solutions’ peers have a beta of 1.13, suggesting that their average share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current recommendations for Bioceres Crop Solutions and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Bioceres Crop Solutions	0	0	4	0	3.00
Bioceres Crop Solutions Competitors	249	690	728	64	2.35

Bioceres Crop Solutions currently has a consensus price target of $23.67, indicating a potential upside of 110.18%. As a group, “Agricultural chemicals” companies have a potential upside of 19.47%. Given Bioceres Crop Solutions’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Bioceres Crop Solutions is more favorable than its peers.

Earnings & Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Bioceres Crop Solutions	$419.80 million	$16.70 million	43.16
Bioceres Crop Solutions Competitors	$5.75 billion	$1.21 billion	6.05

Bioceres Crop Solutions’ peers have higher revenue and earnings than Bioceres Crop Solutions. Bioceres Crop Solutions is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more expensive 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	3.85%	5.03%	1.94%
Bioceres Crop Solutions Competitors	-942.70%	-25.93%	-19.96%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

13.4% of Bioceres Crop Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.4% of shares of all “Agricultural chemicals” companies are held by institutional investors. 7.8% of shares of all “Agricultural chemicals” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Bioceres Crop Solutions beats its peers on 7 of the 13 factors compared.

Bioceres Crop Solutions Company Profile

Bioceres Crop Solutions Corp., together with its subsidiaries, provides crop productivity solutions. It operates in three segments: Seed and Integrated Products, Crop Protection, and Crop Nutrition. 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. The company also offers HB4, a drought tolerant seed technology program. It operates in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, the United States, Paraguay, South Africa, France, Uruguay, and internationally. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Rosario, Argentina.