FMC (NYSE:FMC) & AMAYA Global (OTCMKTS:AYAG) Critical Review

FMC (NYSE:FMC) and AMAYA Global (OTCMKTS:AYAG) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, profitability and valuation.

Profitability

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

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

Volatility & Risk

FMC has a beta of 0.76, meaning that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AMAYA Global has a beta of -0.31, meaning that its share price is 131% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for FMC and AMAYA Global, as reported by MarketBeat.

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

FMC presently has a consensus price target of $49.58, indicating a potential upside of 36.89%. Given FMC’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe FMC is more favorable than AMAYA Global.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

91.9% of FMC shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of FMC shares are owned by 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.

Valuation & Earnings

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

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
FMC	$4.25 billion	1.07	$341.10 million	$0.80	45.28
AMAYA Global	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

FMC has higher revenue and earnings than AMAYA Global.

Summary

FMC beats AMAYA Global on 10 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

About AMAYA Global

AMAYA Global Holdings Corp., through its subsidiaries, engages in planting, preserving, packaging, and marketing navel oranges for distribution and sale in the People’s Republic of China. The company has planted 1,077,098 orange trees in orchards with approximately 5,152 acres of land in Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province. It sells its products to wholesale, retail, and institutional customers through distributors under the General Red brand. The company was formerly known as General Agriculture Corporation and changed its name to AMAYA Global Holdings Corp. in February 2020. AMAYA Global Holdings Corp. was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, USA.