Cibus (NASDAQ:CBUS – Get Free Report) and Adecoagro (NYSE:AGRO – Get Free Report) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, risk, valuation, earnings and institutional ownership.
Profitability
This table compares Cibus and Adecoagro’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Cibus | -3,492.30% | -174.58% | -29.48% |
| Adecoagro | -0.55% | -1.17% | -0.46% |
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Cibus and Adecoagro, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Cibus | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Adecoagro | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
Risk and Volatility
Cibus has a beta of 1.62, meaning that its stock price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Adecoagro has a beta of 0.44, meaning that its stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
33.8% of Cibus shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.3% of Adecoagro shares are held by institutional investors. 49.4% of Cibus 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.
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares Cibus and Adecoagro”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Cibus | $3.64 million | 40.41 | -$127.08 million | ($2.98) | -0.91 |
| Adecoagro | $1.43 billion | 0.98 | -$6.76 million | ($0.08) | -174.71 |
Adecoagro has higher revenue and earnings than Cibus. Adecoagro is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cibus, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Adecoagro beats Cibus on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Cibus
Cibus, Inc., a agricultural biotechnology 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. Cibus, Inc. is based in San Diego, California.
About Adecoagro
Adecoagro S.A. operates as an agro-industrial company in South America. The company mainly operates through three segments: Farming; Sugar, Ethanol and Energy; and Land Transformation. It engages in farming crops, rice and other agricultural products, dairy operations, and land transformation activities, as well as sugar, ethanol, and energy production activities. The company is involved in the planting, harvesting, and sale of grains, oilseeds, and fibers, including wheat, corn, soybeans, peanuts, cotton, sunflowers, and others; provision of grain warehousing/conditioning, handling, and drying services to third parties; and purchase and sale of crops produced by third parties. It also plants, harvests, processes, and markets rice; and produces and sells raw milk, UHT, cheese, and powder milk. In addition, the company engages in the cultivating and transforming of sugarcane into ethanol, sugar, and electricity. Further, it is involved in the identification and acquisition of underdeveloped and undermanaged farmland, and the realization of value through the strategic disposition of assets. Adecoagro S.A. was founded in 2002 and is based in Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
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