Financial Comparison: OLB Group (OLB) versus Its Rivals

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

Insider & Institutional Ownership

3.8% of OLB Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.0% of shares of all “Financial Services” companies are held by institutional investors. 60.2% of OLB Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 21.9% of shares of all “Financial Services” 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.

Analyst Ratings

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

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
OLB Group	1	0	0	0	1.00
OLB Group Competitors	1977	6923	11684	444	2.50

As a group, “Financial Services” companies have a potential downside of 6.45%. Given OLB Group’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe OLB Group has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Volatility and Risk

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.

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	$6.38 billion	$1.09 billion	8.47

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.

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%

Summary

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

About OLB Group

The OLB Group, Inc. is a diversified fintech e-commerce merchant services provider and Bitcoin crypto mining enterprise. The Company’s eCommerce platform delivers e-commerce services for a digital commerce solution to over 10,500 merchants in all 50 states. The Company’s wholly owned subsidiary, DMINT, Inc, is engaged in the mining of Bitcoin utilizing low carbon natural gas with over 1,000 application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC)-based S19j Pro 96T mining computers. www.olb.com and www.olb.com/investors-data.