Bioceres Crop Solutions (NASDAQ:BIOX – Get Free Report) and Flotek Industries (NYSE:FTK – Get Free Report) are both small-cap materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation and profitability.
Profitability
This table compares Bioceres Crop Solutions and Flotek Industries’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Bioceres Crop Solutions | -94.76% | -39.11% | -9.45% |
| Flotek Industries | 12.97% | 21.57% | 10.89% |
Volatility and Risk
Bioceres Crop Solutions has a beta of 0.47, indicating that its share price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Flotek Industries has a beta of 1.42, indicating that its share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent recommendations for Bioceres Crop Solutions and Flotek Industries, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Bioceres Crop Solutions | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.50 |
| Flotek Industries | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3.20 |
Bioceres Crop Solutions presently has a consensus target price of $2.00, suggesting a potential upside of 752.51%. Flotek Industries has a consensus target price of $34.67, suggesting a potential upside of 45.22%. Given Bioceres Crop Solutions’ higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Bioceres Crop Solutions is more favorable than Flotek Industries.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Bioceres Crop Solutions and Flotek Industries”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Bioceres Crop Solutions | $238.30 million | 0.06 | -$54.40 million | ($3.66) | -0.06 |
| Flotek Industries | $237.26 million | 3.64 | $30.53 million | $0.99 | 24.11 |
Flotek Industries has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Bioceres Crop Solutions. Bioceres Crop Solutions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Flotek Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
17.7% of Bioceres Crop Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.9% of Flotek Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of Bioceres Crop Solutions shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of Flotek Industries shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Flotek Industries beats Bioceres Crop Solutions on 11 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 Flotek Industries
Flotek Industries, Inc. operates as a technology-driven green chemistry and data company that serves customers across industrial and commercial markets in the United States, the United Arab Emirates, and internationally. It operates through two segments: Chemistry Technologies (CT) and Data Analytics (DA). The CT segment designs, develops, manufactures, packages, distributes, delivers, and markets green specialty chemicals that enhance the profitability of hydrocarbon producers, as well as green specialty chemistries, and logistics and technology services. This segment primarily serves integrated oil and gas, oilfield services, independent oil and gas, national and state-owned oil, geothermal energy, solar energy, and alternative energy companies. The DA segment designs, develops, produces, sells, and supports equipment and services that create and provide valuable information on the composition and properties of energy customers' hydrocarbon fluids. It sells its products directly through a mix of in-house sales professionals, as well as contractual agency agreements. Flotek Industries, Inc. was incorporated in 1985 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
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