Head-To-Head Contrast: Australian Oilseeds (COOT) versus Its Competitors

Australian Oilseeds (NASDAQ:COOT) is one of 69 public companies in the “FOOD – MISC/DIVERSIFIED” industry, but how does it compare to its competitors? We will compare Australian Oilseeds to related businesses based on the strength of its risk, profitability, valuation, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for Australian Oilseeds and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Australian Oilseeds	1	0	0	0	1.00
Australian Oilseeds Competitors	785	3606	3871	163	2.40

As a group, “FOOD – MISC/DIVERSIFIED” companies have a potential upside of 25.82%. Given Australian Oilseeds’ competitors stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Australian Oilseeds has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Earnings and Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Australian Oilseeds	$27.01 million	-$800,000.00	-52.00
Australian Oilseeds Competitors	$8.99 billion	$395.89 million	18.21

Australian Oilseeds’ competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Australian Oilseeds. Australian Oilseeds 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.

Volatility & Risk

Australian Oilseeds has a beta of -0.11, indicating that its share price is 111% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Australian Oilseeds’ competitors have a beta of 0.80, indicating that their average share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

13.0% of Australian Oilseeds shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.9% of shares of all “FOOD – MISC/DIVERSIFIED” companies are held by institutional investors. 69.1% of Australian Oilseeds shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.1% of shares of all “FOOD – MISC/DIVERSIFIED” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Australian Oilseeds	-2.98%	-102.42%	-4.13%
Australian Oilseeds Competitors	-6.16%	-19.12%	1.26%

Summary

Australian Oilseeds competitors beat Australian Oilseeds on 11 of the 13 factors compared.

About Australian Oilseeds

Australian Oilseeds Holdings Ltd. engages in the manufacture and sale oil seeds through its subsidiaries. It focuses on acquiring, engaging in a share exchange, share reconstruction, and amalgamation with, purchasing all or substantially all the assets of, entering contractual arrangements with, or engaging in any other similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities. The company was founded on December 29, 2022 and is headquartered in Cootamundra, Australia.