Critical Analysis: Enlightify (ENFY) and Its Competitors

Enlightify (NYSE:ENFY) is one of 46 publicly-traded companies in the “CHEM – DIVERSIFD” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare Enlightify to similar companies based on the strength of its institutional ownership, profitability, risk, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations and dividends.

Risk and Volatility

Enlightify has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Enlightify’s competitors have a beta of 0.95, meaning that their average stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Enlightify and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Enlightify	-22.98%	-18.78%	-11.03%
Enlightify Competitors	-63.40%	-0.73%	-0.46%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for Enlightify and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Enlightify	1	0	0	0	1.00
Enlightify Competitors	671	2889	3314	110	2.41

As a group, “CHEM – DIVERSIFD” companies have a potential upside of 37.39%. Given Enlightify’s competitors stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Enlightify has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Enlightify and its competitors gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Enlightify	$79.21 million	-$28.41 million	-0.08
Enlightify Competitors	$10.41 billion	$486.03 million	-0.82

Enlightify’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Enlightify. Enlightify is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

0.1% of Enlightify shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.5% of shares of all “CHEM – DIVERSIFD” companies are owned by institutional investors. 14.0% of Enlightify shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.5% of shares of all “CHEM – DIVERSIFD” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Enlightify competitors beat Enlightify on 9 of the 13 factors compared.

Enlightify Company Profile

Enlightify, Inc. engages in the research, development, production, and sale of various types of fertilizers and agricultural products. It operates through the following segments: Jinong, Gufeng, and Yuxing. The Jinong segment includes fertilizer products, with focus on humic acid-based compound fertilizer. The Gufeng segment refers to the compound fertilizer, blended fertilizer, organic compound fertilizer, slow-release fertilizers, highly concentrated water-soluble fertilizers, and mixed organic-inorganic compound fertilizer. The Yuxing segment develops and produces agricultural products, such as top-grade fruits, vegetables, flowers, and colored seedlings. The company was founded by Tao Li on February 6, 1987 and is headquartered in Xi’an, China.