Basic Materials
Orica Limited(OCLDY)
Live Price
Offline$16.51
+0.00% today
1Y Change
+33.15%
Window
Jun 26, 2025 โ Jun 17, 2026
- Market Cap
- $9.81B
- Revenue Growth
- +5.9%
- EPS Growth
- -69.4%
- Dividend Yield
- 2.7%
Coverage: 245 bars ยท Jun 26, 2025 โ Jun 17, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Orica Limited (OCLDY) is a Basic Materials stock with a market cap of $9.81B and listed on OTC. The stock last traded around $16.51 and up 33.1% across the available one-year price window (Jun 26, 2025 โ Jun 17, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +5.9%, EPS growth of -69.4%, a dividend yield of 2.7%. What stands out right now is revenue +5.9%, EPS -69.4%, free cash flow +52.3% with operating margin 11.0% and ROIC 5.1%. The dividend matters to the case here, with a current yield around 2.7%. Valuation already assumes a fairly strong business story at P/E 63.3 and price/sales 1.2. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a turnaround or cyclical reset than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines OCLDY price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Basic Materials peers on this page.
Sector Context
How this name stacks up against nearby peers on first-pass metrics.
Revenue Growth
Above sector median
+5.9% vs 0.0% peer median
Operating Margin
Near sector median
+11.0% vs +10.5% peer median
What Changed This Quarter
Latest report context and the signals most likely to have changed the story.
Latest report is on the board
2026 was reported on May 6, 2026, but the surprise data is still limited.
The operating picture looks softer than before
Revenue is at +5.9% and EPS is at -69.4%, with operating margin around 11.0%.
Shareholder return is still part of the story
The stock is still offering a dividend yield around 2.7%, which matters if the thesis depends on income as much as growth.
Earnings Reaction Memory
How the stock has tended to move after recent reports.
Across the last 3 reported quarters, the stock averaged +3.2% over the next 5 trading days and finished higher after 2 of those reports.
View quarter-by-quarter reaction table
| Quarter | EPS ฮ | 1D | 5D | 20D |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2026 May 6, 2026 | โ | +0.0% | +0.0% | +13.6% |
2025 May 7, 2025 | โ | +0.0% | +4.8% | +10.2% |
2024 Nov 13, 2024 | โ | +0.0% | +4.8% | +10.2% |
Benchmark Edge
OCLDY vs SPY, QQQ, and Sector ETFs
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
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Normalized return
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Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
OCLDY Max Drawdown
-33.58%
Trailing 1Y
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Calendar-Year Returns
Uses the longest available daily history for OCLDY and SPY.
Company Overview
Orica Limited
Other OTC
Orica Limited manufactures and sells commercial explosives and blasting systems in Australia, the United States, and internationally. The company provides 4D bulk explosives systems, packaged explosives, initiating systems, boosters, and seismic systems; and data, reporting, analytics, blasting, contracted, and supplementary services. It also offers automation solutions, including Avatel, a machine equipped with underground development charging system; and secondary breakage and hang up blasting, a tele-remote blasting solution. In addition, the company provides mining chemical products, such as cyanide sparges, emulsifiers, and sodium cyanide, as well as PRO services; digitally enabled benchmarks and insights at various stages of the blasting process; nitrogen fertilizers, which include urea ammonium nitrate and ammonia; and environmental monitoring and consultancy services. Further, it offers chemical and mechanical earth control products, adhesives, and ground support equipment comprising steel bolts and plates, glass fiber reinforced polymer bolts, injectable chemicals and foams, mesh, resin capsules, cementitious grouts and coatings, pumps, soil anchoring systems, ballast bonding polymers, and accessories, as well as engineering services. Additionally, the company provides resources to explore the use of chemical energy in blasting, blasting fundamentals, and properties of explosives and blast design principles; and geotechnical deformation and convergence monitoring solutions. It serves surface coal, surface metal, iron ore, quarrying, underground mining and construction, construction, civil infrastructure, oil and gas, and agriculture markets. The company was founded in 1874 and is headquartered in East Melbourne, Australia.
- Leadership
- Sanjeev Kumar Gulab Gandhi
- IPO Date
- Mar 14, 2012
- Employees
- 14.0k
- Street Address
- 1 Nicholson Street
- Mailing
- East Melbourne, VIC, 3002
- Region
- East Melbourne, VIC, AU
- Reporting Currency
- USD
- Investor Line
- 61 3 9665 7111
- Last Updated
- May 3, 2026
Key Fundamentals
Valuation, growth, profitability, and balance sheet signals.
Valuation
- P/E
- 63.3
- EV/EBITDA
- 8.8
- Price/Sales
- 1.2
- Price/Book
- 2.5
Growth
- Revenue
- +5.9%
- EPS
- -69.4%
- Free Cash Flow
- +52.3%
Profitability
- Gross Margin
- 30.5%
- Operating Margin
- 11.0%
- Net Margin
- 2.0%
- ROE
- 3.7%
- ROIC
- 5.1%
Balance Sheet
- Debt/Equity
- 0.72
- Current Ratio
- 1.22
Earnings Reports
Latest News
Official Releases
Company announcements and filings-style updates.
Next Step
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