Financial Survey: DKSH (DKSHF) vs. Its Peers

DKSH (OTCMKTS:DKSHF) is one of 204 publicly-traded companies in the “Professional Services” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare DKSH to related companies based on the strength of its dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

13.4% of DKSH shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.3% of shares of all “Professional Services” companies are held by institutional investors. 17.1% of shares of all “Professional Services” companies are held by company 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.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for DKSH and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
DKSH	0	0	1	0	3.00
DKSH Competitors	1496	6306	9076	485	2.49

As a group, “Professional Services” companies have a potential upside of 37.37%. Given DKSH’s competitors higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe DKSH has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
DKSH	N/A	N/A	N/A
DKSH Competitors	-0.52%	19.36%	4.24%

Valuation and Earnings

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
DKSH	N/A	N/A	0.50
DKSH Competitors	$3.36 billion	$228.41 million	27.97

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

Summary

DKSH competitors beat DKSH on 8 of the 11 factors compared.

About DKSH

DKSH Holding AG provides various market expansion services in Thailand, Greater China, Malaysia, Singapore, rest of the Asia Pacific, and internationally. The company offers sourcing, market insights, marketing, sales, eCommerce, distribution, logistics, and after-sales services. It operates through four segments: Healthcare, Consumer Goods, Performance Materials, and Technology. The Healthcare segment provides various services, such as registration, regulatory, market entry studies, importation, customs clearance, marketing and sales, physical distribution, invoicing, and cash collection services for ethical pharmaceuticals, consumer health, and over-the-counter health products, as well as medical devices. The Consumer Goods segment offers a range of services, including product feasibility studies, registration, importation, customs clearance, marketing and merchandising, sales, warehousing, physical distribution, invoicing, cash collection, and after-sales services for fast moving consumer goods, food services, luxury goods, and fashion and lifestyle products, as well as hair and skin cosmetics. The Performance Materials segment sources, markets, and distributes a range of specialty chemicals and ingredients for the pharmaceutical, personal care, food and beverage, and industrial applications, as well as provides market expansion services for performance materials. The Technology segment offers market expansion services comprising a range of capital investment goods and analytical instruments in the areas of infrastructure, industrial materials and supplies, precision and textile machinery, semiconductors, photovoltaic and electronics, agriculture, and hospitality, as well as specialized industrial applications. The company was founded in 1865 and is based in Zurich, Switzerland.