Head to Head Review: Blue Owl Capital Co. III (OBDE) & The Competition

Blue Owl Capital Co. III (NYSE:OBDE) is one of 670 public companies in the “Holding & other investment offices” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its peers? We will compare Blue Owl Capital Co. III to related companies based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, dividends, valuation, earnings and institutional ownership.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings for Blue Owl Capital Co. III and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Blue Owl Capital Co. III	0	0	1	0	3.00
Blue Owl Capital Co. III Competitors	126	570	872	14	2.49

Blue Owl Capital Co. III currently has a consensus price target of $16.00, suggesting a potential upside of 3.29%. As a group, “Holding & other investment offices” companies have a potential upside of 65.05%. Given Blue Owl Capital Co. III’s peers higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Blue Owl Capital Co. III has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Profitability

This table compares Blue Owl Capital Co. III and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Blue Owl Capital Co. III	67.44%	14.48%	7.40%
Blue Owl Capital Co. III Competitors	-35.13%	-44.66%	0.01%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

53.8% of shares of all “Holding & other investment offices” companies are held by institutional investors. 25.2% 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 will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Blue Owl Capital Co. III and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Blue Owl Capital Co. III	$422.83 million	$271.96 million	6.22
Blue Owl Capital Co. III Competitors	$1.17 billion	$87.73 million	58.37

Blue Owl Capital Co. III’s peers have higher revenue, but lower earnings than Blue Owl Capital Co. III. Blue Owl Capital Co. III 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.

Blue Owl Capital Co. III Company Profile

Blue Owl Capital Corporation is a specialty finance company focused on lending to U.S. middle-market companies. Blue Owl Capital Corporation is based in NEW YORK.