Comparing Oceanagold (OGC) and The Competition

Oceanagold (NYSE:OGC) is one of 1,989 public companies in the “Metals & Mining” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare Oceanagold to similar businesses based on the strength of its risk, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Oceanagold and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Oceanagold	1	0	1	2	3.00
Oceanagold Competitors	6264	22317	31884	1741	2.47

As a group, “Metals & Mining” companies have a potential upside of 38.17%. Given Oceanagold’s peers higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Oceanagold has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Profitability

This table compares Oceanagold and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Oceanagold	N/A	N/A	N/A
Oceanagold Competitors	-1,174,432,924,478,955,600.00%	48.32%	-2.69%

Valuation & Earnings

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Oceanagold	$2.25 billion	N/A	24.83
Oceanagold Competitors	$4.48 billion	$267.99 million	-20.08

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

Dividends

Oceanagold pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Oceanagold pays out 35.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Metals & Mining” companies pay a dividend yield of 5.0% and pay out 6.6% of their earnings in the form of a dividend. Oceanagold lags its peers as a dividend stock, given its lower dividend yield and higher payout ratio.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

15.9% of shares of all “Metals & Mining” companies are held by institutional investors. 17.6% of shares of all “Metals & Mining” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Oceanagold peers beat Oceanagold on 8 of the 13 factors compared.