Reviewing GrainCorp (GRCLF) and The Competition

GrainCorp (OTCMKTS:GRCLF) is one of 330 publicly-traded companies in the “Food Products” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare GrainCorp to related companies based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership and risk.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

18.5% of GrainCorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.0% of shares of all “Food Products” companies are owned by institutional investors. 18.1% of shares of all “Food Products” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares GrainCorp and its competitors gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
GrainCorp	N/A	N/A	18.32
GrainCorp Competitors	$13.74 billion	$706.87 million	-2,368.98

GrainCorp’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than GrainCorp. GrainCorp 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.

Analyst Recommendations

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

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
GrainCorp	0	1	0	0	2.00
GrainCorp Competitors	2367	8202	8281	401	2.35

As a group, “Food Products” companies have a potential upside of 11.02%. Given GrainCorp’s competitors stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe GrainCorp has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
GrainCorp	N/A	N/A	N/A
GrainCorp Competitors	-13.56%	-146.31%	-4.57%

Dividends

GrainCorp pays an annual dividend of $0.35 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.7%. GrainCorp pays out 159.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. As a group, “Food Products” companies pay a dividend yield of 11.8% and pay out 31.4% of their earnings in the form of a dividend. GrainCorp lags its competitors as a dividend stock, given its lower dividend yield and higher payout ratio.

Summary

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

GrainCorp Company Profile

GrainCorp Limited operates as an agribusiness and processing company in Australasia, Asia, North America, Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and internationally. It operates through two segments, Agribusiness and Processing. The company handles and trades in wheat, barley, sorghum, corn, oilseeds, pulses, organics, animal fats, and used cooking oils and vegetable oils for animal feed purposes; handles, processes, and stores grains and oilseeds; refines, bleaches, deodorizes, and blends edible fats and oil products; and crushes, processes, manufactures, and distributes edible oils. It also supplies vegetable oil and molasses-based feed supplements to enhance farm productivity; and produces canola oil and canola meal. In addition, the company provides blended and single oils, infant nutrition, bakery products, margarines, spreads, and frying shortening; crushes oilseed products used in cooking oils, spreads and shortenings, prepared foods, meal for dairy, poultry and livestock, cosmetics, and lubricants; and operates bulk port terminals. Further, it engages in the procurement, shipping, accreditation, and value-added supply of tallow and used cooking oil. GrainCorp Limited was founded in 1916 and is headquartered in Barangaroo, Australia.