Contrasting Australian Oilseeds (COOT) & Its Peers

Australian Oilseeds (NASDAQ:COOT) is one of 69 publicly-traded companies in the “FOOD – MISC/DIVERSIFIED” industry, but how does it compare to its competitors? We will compare Australian Oilseeds to related businesses based on the strength of its valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, risk and analyst recommendations.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Australian Oilseeds and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Australian Oilseeds	1	0	0	0	1.00
Australian Oilseeds Competitors	786	3609	3876	164	2.41

As a group, “FOOD – MISC/DIVERSIFIED” companies have a potential upside of 26.45%. Given Australian Oilseeds’ competitors stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Australian Oilseeds has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Australian Oilseeds and its competitors top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Australian Oilseeds	$41.70 million	-$800,000.00	-43.25
Australian Oilseeds Competitors	$8.97 billion	$395.89 million	18.25

Australian Oilseeds’ competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Australian Oilseeds. Australian Oilseeds 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.

Risk & Volatility

Australian Oilseeds has a beta of -0.11, indicating that its stock price is 111% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Australian Oilseeds’ competitors have a beta of 0.80, indicating that their average stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

12.9% of Australian Oilseeds shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.9% of shares of all “FOOD – MISC/DIVERSIFIED” companies are owned by institutional investors. 69.1% of Australian Oilseeds shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.1% of shares of all “FOOD – MISC/DIVERSIFIED” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Australian Oilseeds	-2.98%	-102.42%	-4.13%
Australian Oilseeds Competitors	-6.16%	-19.12%	1.26%

Summary

Australian Oilseeds competitors beat Australian Oilseeds on 11 of the 13 factors compared.

About Australian Oilseeds

Australian Oilseeds Holdings Ltd. engages in the manufacture and sale oil seeds through its subsidiaries. It focuses on acquiring, engaging in a share exchange, share reconstruction, and amalgamation with, purchasing all or substantially all the assets of, entering contractual arrangements with, or engaging in any other similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities. The company was founded on December 29, 2022 and is headquartered in Cootamundra, Australia.