ORA Price Forecast Based on Dividend Discount Model

For dividend yielding stocks, the Dividend Discount Model (DDM) is a common valuation tool; it attempts to extrapolate a fair share price based primarily on the dividend the stock provides relative to a number of other quantiative aspects of its business. As for ORA, the DDM model, as implemented by StockNews, implies a negative return of 78.29% relative to its current price. Digging deeper, the aspects of Ormat Technologies Inc's dividend discount model that we found most interesting were:

• Compared to other US stocks that pay a dividend, Ormat Technologies Inc's dividend yield of 0.49% is in the bottom 6.33%.
• In comparison to other US listed dividend yielding stocks in the Utilities sector, the expected return of -78.29%, based on the stock's current share price and target price based on a dividend discount model, is greater than merely 1.41% of the DDM-forecasted return of its its sector peers.
• ORA's annual revenue of 718 million US dollars puts it in the small-sized revenue class; relative to suck stocks, it has a discount rate lower than 11.51% of dividend issuing stocks in its revenue class.
• Compared to all dividend issuing stocks in our set, Ormat Technologies Inc bears a discount rate, according to our calculations, lower than merely 1.41% of them (lower discount rates are generally perceived as positive, and a sign of lower risk).

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