Financial Survey: N2OFF (NASDAQ:NITO) & Lavoro (NASDAQ:LVRO)

Lavoro (NASDAQ:LVRO) and N2OFF (NASDAQ:NITO) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings and profitability.

Profitability

This table compares Lavoro and N2OFF’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Lavoro	N/A	N/A	N/A
N2OFF	-2,422.21%	-196.54%	-142.36%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Lavoro and N2OFF”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Lavoro	$1.89 billion	0.10	-$152.49 million	($1.63)	-0.95
N2OFF	$210,000.00	19.05	-$5.19 million	N/A	N/A

N2OFF has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Lavoro.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

2.5% of Lavoro shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.2% of N2OFF shares are held by institutional investors. 7.0% of N2OFF shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk & Volatility

Lavoro has a beta of 0.49, meaning that its share price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, N2OFF has a beta of 1.64, meaning that its share price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for Lavoro and N2OFF, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Lavoro	3	1	0	0	1.25
N2OFF	1	0	0	0	1.00

Lavoro currently has a consensus target price of $3.44, indicating a potential upside of 122.49%. Given Lavoro’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Lavoro is more favorable than N2OFF.

Summary

Lavoro beats N2OFF on 6 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Lavoro

Lavoro Limited operates as an agricultural inputs retailer. The company operates through three segments: Brazil Cluster, LATAM Cluster, and Crop Care Cluster. It distributes agricultural inputs, such as crop protection, seeds, fertilizers, foliar fertilizers, biologicals, adjuvants, organominerals, and others for the agricultural industry. The company also produces specialty fertilizers, crop protection products, and biological crop inputs. It operates in Brazil, Colombia, and Uruguay. The company sells its products through its physical stores and digital channel. Lavoro Limited was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil.

About N2OFF

N2OFF, Inc., an agri-food tech company, engages in the development and sale of eco-friendly green solutions for the food industry to enhance food safety and shelf life of fresh produce. Its products are based on proprietary blend of food acids combined with various oxidizing agent-based sanitizers and low concentrated fungicides for cleaning, sanitizing, and controlling pathogens on fresh produce that are safer for human consumption and extend their shelf life by reducing their decay. The company’s products include SavePROTECT or PeroStar, a processing aid for post-harvest application that is added to fruit and vegetable wash water; and SF3HS and SF3H, a post-harvest cleaning and sanitizing solution to control plant and foodborne pathogens. It also offers SpuDefender for controlling post-harvest potato sprouts; and FreshProtect to control spoilage-creating microorganisms on post-harvest citrus fruit. The company was formerly known as Save Foods, Inc. and changed its name to N2OFF, Inc. in March 2024. N2OFF, Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Hod HaSharon, Israel.