Financial Survey: BioLargo (BLGO) versus Its Rivals

BioLargo (NASDAQ:BLGO) is one of 32 publicly-traded companies in the “Chemicals & allied products” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its rivals? We will compare BioLargo to related companies based on the strength of its profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, dividends and earnings.

Risk and Volatility

BioLargo has a beta of 0.2, indicating that its share price is 80% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BioLargo’s rivals have a beta of 1.81, indicating that their average share price is 81% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for BioLargo and its rivals, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
BioLargo	0	0	0	0	N/A
BioLargo Competitors	139	1251	1567	44	2.51

As a group, “Chemicals & allied products” companies have a potential upside of 13.55%. Given BioLargo’s rivals higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe BioLargo has less favorable growth aspects than its rivals.

Profitability

This table compares BioLargo and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
BioLargo	-16.53%	-58.35%	-32.12%
BioLargo Competitors	-591.84%	5.15%	-0.65%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

0.0% of BioLargo shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.6% of shares of all “Chemicals & allied products” companies are owned by institutional investors. 20.3% of BioLargo shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.6% of shares of all “Chemicals & allied products” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares BioLargo and its rivals revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
BioLargo	$12.23 million	-$3.50 million	-8.16
BioLargo Competitors	$6.84 billion	$211.64 million	69.50

BioLargo’s rivals have higher revenue and earnings than BioLargo. BioLargo is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its rivals, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Summary

BioLargo rivals beat BioLargo on 8 of the 10 factors compared.

BioLargo Company Profile

BioLargo, Inc. invents, develops, and commercializes various platform technologies. Its technologies solve challenging environmental problems comprising per – and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) water contamination, advanced water and wastewater treatment, industrial odor and volatile organic compounds control, air quality control, infection control, and myriad environmental remediation. The company provides full-service environmental engineering services. BioLargo, Inc. was incorporated in 1991 and is based in Westminster, California.