Critical Contrast: Evergreen (EVGR) and Its Peers

Evergreen (NASDAQ:EVGR) is one of 673 public companies in the “Holding & other investment offices” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its peers? We will compare Evergreen to related businesses based on the strength of its earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership and risk.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Evergreen and its peers revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Evergreen	N/A	$3.67 million	42.04
Evergreen Competitors	$1.05 billion	$84.35 million	62.54

Evergreen’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than Evergreen. Evergreen 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 Evergreen and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Evergreen	N/A	-31.43%	4.04%
Evergreen Competitors	-17.66%	-43.09%	-0.30%

Analyst Recommendations

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

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Evergreen	0	0	0	0	N/A
Evergreen Competitors	128	730	961	19	2.47

As a group, “Holding & other investment offices” companies have a potential upside of 59.34%. Given Evergreen’s peers higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Evergreen has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

69.3% of Evergreen shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.3% of shares of all “Holding & other investment offices” companies are held by institutional investors. 31.3% of Evergreen shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 26.7% of shares of all “Holding & other investment offices” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Evergreen beats its peers on 5 of the 9 factors compared.

Evergreen Company Profile

Evergreen Corporation is a blank check company. It intends to enter into a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, recapitalization, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities. The company was incorporated in 2021 and is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.