Comparing OSR (OSRH) and Its Competitors

OSR (NASDAQ:OSRH) is one of 844 public companies in the “Biotechnology” industry, but how does it compare to its peers? We will compare OSR to similar companies based on the strength of its earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, risk and valuation.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for OSR and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
OSR	1	0	0	0	1.00
OSR Competitors	9838	15122	45436	1587	2.54

As a group, “Biotechnology” companies have a potential upside of 102.62%. Given OSR’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe OSR has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
OSR	-593.15%	-8.36%	-6.24%
OSR Competitors	-12,357.18%	-197.96%	-30.56%

Earnings and Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
OSR	$1.81 million	-$27.06 million	-0.40
OSR Competitors	$727.32 million	$12.25 million	-15.19

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

Risk and Volatility

OSR has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, OSR’s peers have a beta of 1.15, meaning that their average share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

55.3% of OSR shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.9% of shares of all “Biotechnology” companies are owned by institutional investors. 36.9% of OSR shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 13.1% of shares of all “Biotechnology” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

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

OSR Company Profile

OSR Holdings leverages its international network of partners in the US, Europe, and South Korea to market and license its pipeline of proprietary platform technologies for broad application to efficient clinical trial programs, with the ultimate goal of addressing unmet medical needs. We partner with biotherapeutics companies with innovative and proprietary drug R&D “platform technologies” versus “assets only” companies, whose commercial viability is heavily dependent on positive results for individual treatment modalities in extremely rigorous and time consuming clinical trials. We focus on value creation through investments and collaborations with US and EU biotech companies, with the strategic goal of expansion into South Korea (specifically) and Asia (generally). OSR Holdings is headquartered in Paju, South Korea.