Financial Comparison: Orica (OCLDF) and Its Rivals

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Orica and its competitors revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Orica	N/A	N/A	8.45
Orica Competitors	$8.00 billion	$217.41 million	-13.50

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

Dividends

Orica pays an annual dividend of $0.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Orica pays out 9.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Chemicals” companies pay a dividend yield of 3.3% and pay out 107.5% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Orica	N/A	N/A	N/A
Orica Competitors	-122.71%	-11.99%	-2.24%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

37.5% of Orica shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.5% of shares of all “Chemicals” companies are held by institutional investors. 14.0% of shares of all “Chemicals” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Orica beats its competitors on 5 of the 9 factors compared.

Orica Company Profile

Orica Limited manufactures, distributes, and sells commercial blasting systems, mining and tunnelling support systems, and various chemical products and services in Australia, Peru, the United States, and internationally. The company provides 4D bulk explosives systems, packaged explosives, initiating systems, boosters, and seismic explosive ranges; technical services and solutions; and supplementary services. It also offers automation solutions, including Avatel, a machine equipped with underground development charging system; and secondary breakage and hang up blasting, a tele-remote blasting solution. In addition, the company provides mining chemical products, such as cyanide sparges, emulsifiers, and sodium cyanide, as well as PRO services; digitally enabled benchmarks and insights at various stages of the blasting process; and nitrogen fertilizers, which includes urea ammonium nitrate and ammonia. Further, it offers resources to explore the use of chemical energy in blasting, blasting fundamentals, and properties of explosives and blasting principles; training courses; and geotechnical deformation and convergence monitoring solutions. Additionally, the company provides digital solutions, including MonitorIQ, an advanced processing and analytic software; BlastIQ, BlastVision, FRAGTrack, GroundProbe, RGR-Velox, LOADPlus, RHINO, DRILLMax, DRILLHub, WIREBmr, Axis mining technology, SHOTPlus, OREPro 3D Predict, Fortis Protect, Senatel, Exel Neo, Cyclo, and Bulkmaster. The company serves surface coal, surface metal, iron ore, quarrying, underground mining and construction, construction, civil infrastructure, oil and gas, and agriculture markets. Orica Limited was founded in 1874 and is headquartered in East Melbourne, Australia.