BrasilAgro – Companhia Brasileira de Propriedades Agrícolas (NYSE:LND – Get Rating) and Yield10 Bioscience (NASDAQ:YTEN – Get Rating) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership and risk.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
7.7% of Yield10 Bioscience shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of BrasilAgro – Companhia Brasileira de Propriedades Agrícolas shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.3% of Yield10 Bioscience shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
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This table compares BrasilAgro – Companhia Brasileira de Propriedades Agrícolas and Yield10 Bioscience's top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| BrasilAgro – Companhia Brasileira de Propriedades Agrícolas | $1.17 billion | 0.27 | $99.18 million | $0.29 | 17.21 |
| Yield10 Bioscience | $450,000.00 | 32.02 | -$13.57 million | ($2.76) | -1.03 |
BrasilAgro – Companhia Brasileira de Propriedades Agrícolas has higher revenue and earnings than Yield10 Bioscience. Yield10 Bioscience is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BrasilAgro – Companhia Brasileira de Propriedades Agrícolas, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of current ratings for BrasilAgro – Companhia Brasileira de Propriedades Agrícolas and Yield10 Bioscience, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| BrasilAgro – Companhia Brasileira de Propriedades Agrícolas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A |
| Yield10 Bioscience | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3.00 |
Yield10 Bioscience has a consensus target price of $12.00, suggesting a potential upside of 322.54%. Given Yield10 Bioscience's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Yield10 Bioscience is more favorable than BrasilAgro – Companhia Brasileira de Propriedades Agrícolas.
Risk and Volatility
BrasilAgro – Companhia Brasileira de Propriedades Agrícolas has a beta of 0.77, meaning that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Yield10 Bioscience has a beta of 1.81, meaning that its share price is 81% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares BrasilAgro – Companhia Brasileira de Propriedades Agrícolas and Yield10 Bioscience's net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| BrasilAgro – Companhia Brasileira de Propriedades Agrícolas | 10.86% | 6.41% | 4.22% |
| Yield10 Bioscience | -3,014.67% | -154.59% | -106.96% |
Summary
BrasilAgro – Companhia Brasileira de Propriedades Agrícolas beats Yield10 Bioscience on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
About BrasilAgro – Companhia Brasileira de Propriedades Agrícolas
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BrasilAgro Cia Brasileira de Propriedades Agricolas focuses on the acquisition, development and exploration of agricultural properties. It operates through the following segments: Real Estate, Grains, Sugarcane, Cattle Raising, Cotton and Other. The Real Estate segment presents the P&L from operations carried out in the Company's subsidiaries. The Grain segment produces and markets soy and corn. The Sugarcane segment includes the sale of the raw product. The cattle raising segment consists of producing and selling beef calves after weaning, which characterizes the activity as breeding and fattening of cattle. The cotton segment is engaged primarily in the production and sale of cotton lint and seed. The Other segment engages in corporate activities. The company was founded on September 23, 2005 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
About Yield10 Bioscience
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Yield10 Bioscience, Inc. is an agricultural bioscience company, which engages in the development of oilseed Camelina sativa as a platform crop for large scale production of low carbon sustainable seed products. The company was founded by Anthony J. Sinskey, Simon F. Williams, and Oliver P. Peoples in 1992 and is headquartered in Woburn, MA.
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