Head to Head Analysis: American Vanguard (NYSE:AVD) & N2OFF (NASDAQ:NITO)

American Vanguard (NYSE:AVD) and N2OFF (NASDAQ:NITO) 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 earnings, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for American Vanguard and N2OFF, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
American Vanguard	0	0	4	0	3.00
N2OFF	0	0	0	0	N/A

American Vanguard currently has a consensus price target of $16.67, suggesting a potential upside of 213.28%. Given American Vanguard’s higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe American Vanguard is more favorable than N2OFF.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

79.0% of American Vanguard shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.2% of N2OFF shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.1% of American Vanguard shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.2% of N2OFF shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility and Risk

American Vanguard has a beta of 0.87, meaning that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, N2OFF has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares American Vanguard and N2OFF’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
American Vanguard	-0.60%	1.85%	0.85%
N2OFF	N/A	-100.78%	-87.04%

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares American Vanguard and N2OFF”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
American Vanguard	$585.05 million	0.25	$7.52 million	$0.26	20.46
N2OFF	$260,000.00	4.77	-$6.52 million	N/A	N/A

American Vanguard has higher revenue and earnings than N2OFF.

Summary

American Vanguard beats N2OFF on 8 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About American Vanguard

American Vanguard Corporation, through its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and markets specialty chemicals for agricultural, commercial, and consumer uses in the United States and internationally. It manufactures and formulates chemicals, including insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, soil health, plant nutrition, molluscicides, growth regulators, soil fumigants, and biorationals in liquid, powder, and granular forms for crops, turf and ornamental plants, and human and animal health protection. The company also markets, sells, and distributes end-use chemical and biological products for crop applications; and distributes chemicals for turf and ornamental markets. It distributes its products through national distribution companies, and buying groups or co-operatives; and through sales offices, sales force executives, sales agents, and wholly owned distributors. American Vanguard Corporation was incorporated in 1969 and is headquartered in Newport Beach, California.

About N2OFF

N2OFF, Inc., an agri-food tech company, engages in the development and sale of eco-friendly green solutions for the food industry to enhance food safety and shelf life of fresh produce. Its products are based on proprietary blend of food acids combined with various oxidizing agent-based sanitizers and low concentrated fungicides for cleaning, sanitizing, and controlling pathogens on fresh produce that are safer for human consumption and extend their shelf life by reducing their decay. The company’s products include SavePROTECT or PeroStar, a processing aid for post-harvest application that is added to fruit and vegetable wash water; and SF3HS and SF3H, a post-harvest cleaning and sanitizing solution to control plant and foodborne pathogens. It also offers SpuDefender for controlling post-harvest potato sprouts; and FreshProtect to control spoilage-creating microorganisms on post-harvest citrus fruit. The company was formerly known as Save Foods, Inc. and changed its name to N2OFF, Inc. in March 2024. N2OFF, Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Hod HaSharon, Israel.