Financial Survey: Cibus (CBUS) and Its Rivals

Cibus (NASDAQ:CBUS) is one of 20 public companies in the “Agricultural chemicals” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare Cibus to related companies based on the strength of its profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, risk and earnings.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Cibus and its peers revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Cibus	$323,000.00	-$16.89 million	-0.93
Cibus Competitors	$5.33 billion	$1.09 billion	5.12

Cibus’ peers have higher revenue and earnings than Cibus. Cibus 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 Cibus and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Cibus	-10,176.78%	-26.34%	-14.99%
Cibus Competitors	-880.11%	-18.06%	-18.47%

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for Cibus and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Cibus	0	0	0	0	N/A
Cibus Competitors	271	749	777	82	2.36

As a group, “Agricultural chemicals” companies have a potential upside of 26.62%. Given Cibus’ peers higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Cibus has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

21.7% of Cibus shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.7% of shares of all “Agricultural chemicals” companies are owned by institutional investors. 4.4% of Cibus shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.3% of shares of all “Agricultural chemicals” companies are owned by company 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.

Risk and Volatility

Cibus has a beta of 1.91, indicating that its share price is 91% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cibus’ peers have a beta of 1.16, indicating that their average share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Cibus peers beat Cibus on 8 of the 10 factors compared.

About Cibus

Cibus, Inc., a agricultural technology 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. The company is based in San Diego, California.