SANW vs. AQB, YGF, LQR, NAII, AAGRW, AGRIW, CHSCO, CHSCN, CHSCM, and CHSCL
Should you be buying S&W Seed stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of S&W Seed include AquaBounty Technologies (AQB), YanGuFang International Group (YGF), LQR House (LQR), Natural Alternatives International (NAII), African Agriculture (AAGRW), AgriFORCE Growing Systems (AGRIW), CHS (CHSCO), CHS (CHSCN), CHS (CHSCM), and CHS (CHSCL).
AquaBounty Technologies (NASDAQ:AQB) and S&W Seed (NASDAQ:SANW) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking and risk.
AquaBounty Technologies has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, S&W Seed has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.
S&W Seed has a net margin of 18.36% compared to S&W Seed's net margin of -1,114.81%. S&W Seed's return on equity of -15.68% beat AquaBounty Technologies' return on equity.
In the previous week, AquaBounty Technologies and AquaBounty Technologies both had 2 articles in the media. AquaBounty Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat S&W Seed's score of 0.00 indicating that S&W Seed is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
S&W Seed received 164 more outperform votes than AquaBounty Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.56% of users gave AquaBounty Technologies an outperform vote while only 61.48% of users gave S&W Seed an outperform vote.
8.9% of AquaBounty Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.7% of S&W Seed shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of AquaBounty Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 10.2% of S&W Seed shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
AquaBounty Technologies currently has a consensus target price of $25.00, suggesting a potential upside of 1,182.05%. S&W Seed has a consensus target price of $3.00, suggesting a potential upside of 614.29%. Given S&W Seed's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe AquaBounty Technologies is more favorable than S&W Seed.
S&W Seed has higher revenue and earnings than AquaBounty Technologies. AquaBounty Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than S&W Seed, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
S&W Seed beats AquaBounty Technologies on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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