Head-To-Head Survey: Farmmi (NASDAQ:FAMI) vs. FMC (NYSE:FMC)

Farmmi (NASDAQ:FAMI) and FMC (NYSE:FMC) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability and risk.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations for Farmmi and FMC, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Farmmi	0	0	0	0	0.00
FMC	1	7	5	0	2.31

FMC has a consensus price target of $49.58, suggesting a potential upside of 30.81%. Given FMC’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe FMC is more favorable than Farmmi.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

0.3% of Farmmi shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.9% of FMC shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of Farmmi shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of FMC shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Farmmi and FMC”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Farmmi	$64.13 million	0.04	-$4.66 million	N/A	N/A
FMC	$4.25 billion	1.12	$341.10 million	$0.80	47.38

FMC has higher revenue and earnings than Farmmi.

Risk & Volatility

Farmmi has a beta of 1.64, suggesting that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FMC has a beta of 0.76, suggesting that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Farmmi and FMC’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Farmmi	N/A	N/A	N/A
FMC	2.42%	9.36%	3.51%

Summary

FMC beats Farmmi on 10 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Farmmi

Farmmi, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in processing and sale of agricultural products in China, the United States, Japan, Canada, Europe, Korea, and the Middle East. The company offers Shiitake mushrooms, Mu Er mushrooms, and other edible fungi, such as bamboo fungi, agrocybe aegerila, pleurotus eryngii, grifola frondose, coprinus comatus, and hericium erinaceus, as well as dried edible fungi. It is also involved in trading of cotton, corn, and other agricultural products. The company's products are offered under Lishui Shangeng, Farmmi Liangpin, Forasen, and Puyangtang brands. It offers its products through local distributors to processing manufacturers, supermarkets, restaurants, cafeterias, and local specialty stores. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Lishui, China.

About FMC

FMC Corporation, an agricultural sciences company, provides crop protection, plant health, and professional pest and turf management products. It develops, markets, and sells crop protection chemicals that includes insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides; and biologicals, crop nutrition, and seed treatment products, which are used in agriculture to enhance crop yield and quality by controlling a range of insects, weeds, and diseases, as well as in non-agricultural markets for pest control. The company markets its products through its own sales organization and through alliance partners, independent distributors, and sales representatives. It operates in North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. The company was founded in 1883 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.