Contrasting Oklo (OKLO) and Its Competitors

Oklo (NYSE:OKLO) is one of 108 publicly-traded companies in the “Electric services” industry, but how does it compare to its peers? We will compare Oklo to related businesses based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk and earnings.

Risk & Volatility

Oklo has a beta of -0.01, meaning that its stock price is 101% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Oklo’s peers have a beta of -1.07, meaning that their average stock price is 207% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for Oklo and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Oklo	0	3	3	0	2.50
Oklo Competitors	1178	4961	4769	101	2.34

Oklo presently has a consensus target price of $44.25, indicating a potential upside of 101.25%. As a group, “Electric services” companies have a potential upside of 16.31%. Given Oklo’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Oklo is more favorable than its peers.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Oklo	N/A	-32.11%	-13.72%
Oklo Competitors	3.59%	7.49%	1.48%

Valuation and Earnings

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Oklo	N/A	$11.87 million	-2.17
Oklo Competitors	$1,278.11 billion	$598.83 million	16.55

Oklo’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than Oklo. Oklo 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.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

85.0% of Oklo shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.0% of shares of all “Electric services” companies are owned by institutional investors. 21.8% of Oklo shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.1% of shares of all “Electric services” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Oklo peers beat Oklo on 7 of the 13 factors compared.

Oklo Company Profile

Oklo Inc. designs and develops fission power plants to provide reliable and commercial-scale energy to customers in the United States. It also provides used nuclear fuel recycling services. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Santa Clara, California.