Head-To-Head Review: Bioceres Crop Solutions (NASDAQ:BIOX) & Alico (NASDAQ:ALCO)

Bioceres Crop Solutions (NASDAQ:BIOX) and Alico (NASDAQ:ALCO) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, risk and analyst recommendations.

Volatility & Risk

Bioceres Crop Solutions has a beta of 0.33, suggesting that its stock price is 67% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alico has a beta of 0.98, suggesting that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Bioceres Crop Solutions and Alico”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Bioceres Crop Solutions	$333.30 million	0.25	-$51.80 million	($0.81)	-1.62
Alico	$46.64 million	5.47	$6.97 million	($20.55)	-1.62

Alico has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Bioceres Crop Solutions. Alico is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bioceres Crop Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Bioceres Crop Solutions and Alico, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Bioceres Crop Solutions	0	2	2	0	2.50
Alico	0	0	0	0	0.00

Bioceres Crop Solutions currently has a consensus price target of $4.17, indicating a potential upside of 218.07%. Given Bioceres Crop Solutions’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Bioceres Crop Solutions is more favorable than Alico.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

17.7% of Bioceres Crop Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.3% of Alico shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of Bioceres Crop Solutions shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.3% of Alico shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Bioceres Crop Solutions	-15.27%	-14.72%	-6.21%
Alico	-355.13%	-58.27%	-35.19%

Summary

Bioceres Crop Solutions beats Alico on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Bioceres Crop Solutions

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

About Alico

Alico, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an agribusiness and land management company in the United States. The company operates in two segments, Alico Citrus, and Land Management and Other Operations. The Alico Citrus segment engages in planting, owning, cultivating, and/or managing citrus groves to produce fruit for sale to fresh and processed citrus markets, including activities related to the purchase and resale of fruit and value-added services, which include contracting for the harvesting, marketing, and hauling of citrus. The Land Management and Other Operations segment is involved in the activities related to native plant sales, grazing and hunting leasing, management, and/or conservation of unimproved native pastureland; and activities related to rock mining royalties and other insignificant lines of business, as well as in the activities related to owning and/or leasing improved farmland. The company was incorporated in 1960 and is based in Fort Myers, Florida.