Oriental Land (OLCLY) versus Its Competitors Critical Contrast

Oriental Land (OTCMKTS:OLCLY) is one of 165 public companies in the “Diversified Consumer Services” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare Oriental Land to related companies based on the strength of its risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, valuation, dividends and institutional ownership.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings for Oriental Land and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Oriental Land	0	1	0	0	2.00
Oriental Land Competitors	1440	3453	5298	197	2.41

As a group, “Diversified Consumer Services” companies have a potential upside of 63.58%. Given Oriental Land’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Oriental Land has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Oriental Land	18.41%	12.13%	8.28%
Oriental Land Competitors	-3.82%	-29.65%	2.33%

Dividends

Oriental Land pays an annual dividend of $0.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Oriental Land pays out 11.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Diversified Consumer Services” companies pay a dividend yield of 6.0% and pay out 36.4% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Volatility and Risk

Oriental Land has a beta of 0.52, meaning that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Oriental Land’s peers have a beta of 0.53, meaning that their average share price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Oriental Land and its peers revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Oriental Land	$4.68 billion	$804.41 million	44.29
Oriental Land Competitors	$3.26 billion	$221.82 million	15.39

Oriental Land has higher revenue and earnings than its peers. Oriental Land is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

49.0% of shares of all “Diversified Consumer Services” companies are held by institutional investors. 19.5% of shares of all “Diversified Consumer Services” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Oriental Land peers beat Oriental Land on 8 of the 15 factors compared.

Oriental Land Company Profile

Oriental Land Co., Ltd. is a Japanese leisure and hospitality company best known for operating Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, near Tokyo. The resort includes Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea, which the company operates under agreements with The Walt Disney Company. Oriental Land also operates resort hotels, the Disney Resort Line monorail, and Ikspiari, a shopping and dining complex. Its business centers on providing theme park, lodging, transportation, retail and food services to visitors.