Cosan (NYSE:CSAN – Get Free Report) is one of 75 publicly-traded companies in the “Other Alt Energy” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare Cosan to similar businesses based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability and risk.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Cosan and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
Cosan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3.50 |
Cosan Competitors | 255 | 978 | 1641 | 54 | 2.51 |
Cosan presently has a consensus target price of $19.00, suggesting a potential upside of 306.77%. As a group, “Other Alt Energy” companies have a potential downside of 3.74%. Given Cosan’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Cosan is more favorable than its peers.
Valuation and Earnings
Gross Revenue | Net Income | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
Cosan | $8.15 billion | -$1.75 billion | 3.54 |
Cosan Competitors | $5.38 billion | $332.42 million | 7.29 |
Cosan has higher revenue, but lower earnings than its peers. Cosan 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 Cosan and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
Cosan | -25.77% | -24.39% | -7.53% |
Cosan Competitors | -41.99% | -24.92% | -4.00% |
Institutional and Insider Ownership
40.6% of shares of all “Other Alt Energy” companies are held by institutional investors. 18.4% of shares of all “Other Alt Energy” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Dividends
Cosan pays an annual dividend of $0.31 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.6%. Cosan pays out 23.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Other Alt Energy” companies pay a dividend yield of 1.0% and pay out 54.4% of their earnings in the form of a dividend. Cosan is clearly a better dividend stock than its peers, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Risk & Volatility
Cosan has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cosan’s peers have a beta of -71.88, indicating that their average stock price is 7,288% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Cosan beats its peers on 9 of the 15 factors compared.
About Cosan
Cosan S.A. engages in the fuel distribution business. It operates through Raízen, Compass, Moove, Rumo, and Radar segments. The company’s Raízen segment engages in the production, commercialization, origination, and trading of ethanol, bioenergy, renewable sources, and sugar; trading and resale of electricity; and distribution and commercialization of fuels and lubricants. Its Compass segment distributes piped natural gas to industrial, residential, commercial, automotive, and cogeneration customers; and develops infrastructure projects in a regasification terminal, offshore gas pipeline, and thermal generation projects utilizing natural gas, as well as commercialization of electricity and natural gas. The company’s Moove segment produces and distributes lubricants under the Comma brand. Its Rumo segment provides logistics services for rail transportation, port storage, and loading of goods, including grains and sugar; and leases locomotives, wagons, and another railroad equipment, as well as operates containers. The company’s Radar segment manages agricultural property. It operates in Brazil, England, France, Spain and Portugal, Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay and Paraguay, the United States, Asia, and internationally. Cosan S.A. was founded in 1936 and is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil.
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