Reviewing Australian Oilseeds (COOT) and Its Competitors

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

Institutional & Insider Ownership

13.0% 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 insiders. Comparatively, 15.1% of shares of all “FOOD – MISC/DIVERSIFIED” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation and Earnings

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Australian Oilseeds	$27.01 million	-$840,000.00	-34.38
Australian Oilseeds Competitors	$8.99 billion	$395.89 million	40.83

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

Analyst Ratings

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

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Australian Oilseeds	1	0	0	0	1.00
Australian Oilseeds Competitors	818	3653	3912	166	2.40

As a group, “FOOD – MISC/DIVERSIFIED” companies have a potential upside of 27.16%. Given Australian Oilseeds’ peers stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Australian Oilseeds has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Australian Oilseeds	-2.98%	-104.19%	-4.15%
Australian Oilseeds Competitors	-5.86%	-18.91%	1.38%

Risk & Volatility

Australian Oilseeds has a beta of -0.01, suggesting that its share price is 101% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Australian Oilseeds’ peers have a beta of 0.80, suggesting that their average share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Australian Oilseeds peers 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.