Comparing Orion Digital (ORIO) & Its Competitors

Orion Digital (NASDAQ:ORIO) is one of 923 publicly-traded companies in the “Banks” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its competitors? We will compare Orion Digital to similar businesses based on the strength of its risk, valuation, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and earnings.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for Orion Digital and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Orion Digital	1	1	0	0	1.50
Orion Digital Competitors	7409	29856	27291	1380	2.34

As a group, “Banks” companies have a potential upside of 17.42%. Given Orion Digital’s competitors stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Orion Digital has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Risk and Volatility

Orion Digital has a beta of 2.53, meaning that its share price is 153% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Orion Digital’s competitors have a beta of 0.60, meaning that their average share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

14.8% of Orion Digital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.7% of shares of all “Banks” companies are held by institutional investors. 12.3% of Orion Digital shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 9.8% of shares of all “Banks” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Orion Digital	-24.49%	-6.17%	-2.56%
Orion Digital Competitors	14.81%	9.27%	0.91%

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Orion Digital and its competitors top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Orion Digital	$49.11 million	-$6.11 million	-2.04
Orion Digital Competitors	$9.87 billion	$2.40 billion	20.26

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

Summary

Orion Digital competitors beat Orion Digital on 11 of the 13 factors compared.

Orion Digital Company Profile

Mogo Inc. operates as a financial technology company in Canada and internationally. The company provides digital solutions to the consumers to get in control of their financial health. It offers Mogo app to access a digital spending account with Mogo Visa Platinum Prepaid Card; MogoCrypto that enables the buying and selling of bitcoin; MogoProtect, a free ID fraud protection and monthly credit score monitoring; MogoMortgage, a digital mortgage experience; and MogoMoney that provides access to personal loans. The company also offers Mogo Trade, a free stock trading platform with real-time stock quotes and funding; and Mogo Ventures to manage its existing investments in strategic partners and companies. In addition, it operates Carta, a digital payments software platform that enable financial technology companies, banks, and corporations to issue payment products to consumers via multiple channels, including physical, virtual, and tokenized cards, as well as payment switching and routing services. Mogo Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.