OLB Group (OLB) & Its Competitors Head-To-Head Review

OLB Group (NASDAQ:OLB) is one of 341 publicly-traded companies in the “Financial Services” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare OLB Group to similar businesses based on the strength of its earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends and valuation.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
OLB Group	-68.26%	-76.38%	-35.87%
OLB Group Competitors	-412.58%	-39.71%	-5.80%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

3.8% of OLB Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.2% of shares of all “Financial Services” companies are held by institutional investors. 42.1% of OLB Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 22.0% of shares of all “Financial Services” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk and Volatility

OLB Group has a beta of 2.08, suggesting that its share price is 108% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, OLB Group’s peers have a beta of 2.51, suggesting that their average share price is 151% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for OLB Group and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
OLB Group	1	0	0	0	1.00
OLB Group Competitors	1996	6954	11733	446	2.50

As a group, “Financial Services” companies have a potential downside of 8.24%. Given OLB Group’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe OLB Group has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Earnings and Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
OLB Group	$8.68 million	-$5.87 million	-0.60
OLB Group Competitors	$6.73 billion	$1.10 billion	9.78

OLB Group’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than OLB Group. OLB Group 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.

Summary

OLB Group peers beat OLB Group on 11 of the 13 factors compared.

OLB Group Company Profile

The OLB Group, Inc. is a financial technology company that provides payment processing and merchant services to small and midsized businesses. Its solutions are designed to help merchants accept and manage transactions across in-store, online and mobile channels. The company’s offerings include point-of-sale systems, e-commerce payment tools, mobile payment acceptance and integrated business-management services. Through its merchant-services platform, OLB supports functions such as transaction processing, payment security and merchant account management.