CGA vs. EVGN, SNES, NITO, SVFD, UAN, NTR, CF, MOS, ICL, and SMG
Should you be buying China Green Agriculture stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of China Green Agriculture include Evogene (EVGN), SenesTech (SNES), N2OFF (NITO), Save Foods (SVFD), CVR Partners (UAN), Nutrien (NTR), CF Industries (CF), Mosaic (MOS), ICL Group (ICL), and Scotts Miracle-Gro (SMG). These companies are all part of the "agricultural chemicals" industry.
China Green Agriculture (NYSE:CGA) and Evogene (NASDAQ:EVGN) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, risk and institutional ownership.
Evogene has a consensus target price of $3.62, suggesting a potential upside of 385.46%. Given Evogene's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Evogene is more favorable than China Green Agriculture.
China Green Agriculture has a beta of 0.47, meaning that its share price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Evogene has a beta of 1.47, meaning that its share price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500.
China Green Agriculture has a net margin of -27.43% compared to Evogene's net margin of -233.66%. China Green Agriculture's return on equity of -22.74% beat Evogene's return on equity.
0.1% of China Green Agriculture shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.4% of Evogene shares are held by institutional investors. 34.3% of China Green Agriculture shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.4% of Evogene shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Evogene received 26 more outperform votes than China Green Agriculture when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.35% of users gave Evogene an outperform vote while only 55.30% of users gave China Green Agriculture an outperform vote.
China Green Agriculture has higher revenue and earnings than Evogene. Evogene is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than China Green Agriculture, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Evogene had 2 more articles in the media than China Green Agriculture. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Evogene and 1 mentions for China Green Agriculture. Evogene's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat China Green Agriculture's score of 0.00 indicating that Evogene is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Evogene beats China Green Agriculture on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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