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ORI.AU Orica Limited
AU AUD Basic Materials
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As of 30 Oct 2026
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Market facts
- Market cap
- 11B
- P/E ratio
- 44.8
- Analyst target
- 25.9542
- Dividend yield
- 2.7%
- Beta
- 0.66
Profile
Instrument facts
- Exchange
- AU
- Currency
- AUD
- Sector
- Basic Materials
- Industry
- Specialty Chemicals
- ISIN
- AU000000ORI1
- Market cap
- 11B
- P/E ratio
- 44.8
- Analyst target
- 25.9542
- Dividend yield
- 2.7%
- Beta
- 0.66
About
About Orica Limited
Orica Limited manufactures, distributes, and sells commercial blasting systems, explosives, mining and tunnelling support systems, and various chemical products and services in Australia, Canada, the United States, and internationally. It provides 4D bulk explosives systems, packaged explosives, initiating systems, boosters, and seismic explosive ranges; technical services; and supplementary services. The company 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, it provides specialty mining chemical products, such as cyanide, emulsifiers, and sodium cyanide, as well as PRO services; end-to-end benchmarks and insights at various stages of the blasting process; and nitrogen fertilizers, which includes urea ammonium nitrate and ammonia. Further, the company offers resources to explore the use of chemical energy in blasting, blasting fundamentals, and properties of explosives and blast design principles; training courses; initiating systems; and geotechnical deformation and convergence monitoring solutions. Additionally, it provides digital solutions, including BlastIQ, OREPro 3D, CHAMP NAVIGATOR, CHAMPORI, CHAMP MAGSHOT, CHAMP OSA, FRAGTrack, GroundProbe, 3vGeomatics, MEASURAND, NAVSTAR, rst, SYSCOM Instruments, NEXT GEN SHOTPlus, RHINO, DRILLMax, WIREBmr, ENVIRO Track, Integrated Extraction Simulator, Advanced Vibration Management, Axis mining technology, SHOTPlus, OREPro 3D Predict, and Design for Outcome. The company serves surface coal, surface metal, iron ore, quarrying, underground mining and construction, construction, civil infrastructure, oil and gas, and agriculture markets. The company was formerly known as ICI Australia Limited and changed its name to Orica Limited in February 1998. Orica Limited was founded in 1874 and is headquartered in East Melbourne, Australia.
Research context
Orica Limited appears in PyInvesting’s Australia Stock catalogue. The price history above describes this recorded instrument; it does not by itself identify a company’s business or establish a continuous investment return.
- Currency
- AUD
- Sector
- Basic Materials
- Industry
- Specialty Chemicals
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5 years, 6 months ago
Orica Limited is currently in a long term downtrend where the price is trading 6.5% below its 200 day moving average.
From a valuation standpoint, the stock is 99.9% cheaper than other stocks from the Basic Materials sector with a price to sales ratio of 1.0.
Orica Limited's total revenue sank by 10.4% to $3B since the same quarter in the previous year.
Its net income has dropped by 98.5% to $3M since the same quarter in the previous year.
Finally, its free cash flow fell by 92.5% to $24M since the same quarter in the previous year.
Based on the above factors, Orica Limited gets an overall score of 1/5.