Comparing Oklo (OKLO) and Its Competitors

Oklo (NYSE:OKLO) is one of 108 publicly-traded companies in the “Electric services” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its peers? We will compare Oklo to similar companies based on the strength of its institutional ownership, risk, valuation, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations and profitability.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Oklo and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Oklo	0	2	3	0	2.60
Oklo Competitors	1170	4950	4758	101	2.35

Oklo presently has a consensus price target of $44.25, indicating a potential upside of 99.01%. As a group, “Electric services” companies have a potential upside of 24.95%. Given Oklo’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Oklo is more favorable than its peers.

Risk and Volatility

Oklo has a beta of -0.01, indicating that its share price is 101% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Oklo’s peers have a beta of -1.07, indicating that their average share price is 207% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Oklo and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Oklo	N/A	$11.87 million	-2.19
Oklo Competitors	$1,278.11 billion	$598.83 million	17.22

Oklo’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than Oklo. Oklo 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.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Oklo	N/A	-32.11%	-13.72%
Oklo Competitors	3.59%	7.49%	1.48%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

85.0% of Oklo shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.0% of shares of all “Electric services” companies are owned by institutional investors. 21.8% of Oklo shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.2% of shares of all “Electric services” companies are owned by company 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.

Summary

Oklo peers beat Oklo on 7 of the 13 factors compared.

About Oklo

Oklo Inc. designs and develops fission power plants to provide reliable and commercial-scale energy to customers in the United States. It also provides used nuclear fuel recycling services. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Santa Clara, California.