Section 1: Company Fundamentals

1.1 Summary Table

1.2 The Key Positives, Negatives, and Investment summary

1.3 Key Metrics

GOGL over the last five years has been in an upward trending momentum in its revenues and gross profits, the primary contributor being the increased revenue growth in both Time Charter and Voyage Charter segments. GOGL has grown its revenues and gross margin at an impressive 5-year CAGR of 36.18% and 64.74% respectively. Furthermore, the higher CAGR for gross profit means increased efficiency in managing the cost of revenues by the company over the last five years. Another example of improved efficiency is increased profitability margins at each level of the operational process and increased return to shareholders seen through increased ROE on a YoY basis. Finally, even though GOGL has leveraged its balance sheet compared to the industry median, still the company is taking successful efforts to control the Debt/Equity ratio, which can be evident from the downward sloping Debt/Equity ratio in the previous five quarters.

1.4 Consistent dividend payments with impressive dividend yield:

GOGL has had a history of paying dividends for 22 years, as the first dividend was paid on 11^th February 2000. GOGL has an impressive dividend yield of 28.24% and at an annual dividend of USD 2.40 per share. The dividend is paid every three months and the last ex-dividend date was September 6, 2022, with the dividend payment date being September 14, 2022. GOGL has a dividend payout ratio of 80.12% on an LTM basis, making the stock a good opportunity for regular income preferring investors.

Section 2: Golden Ocean Group Ltd. (“Buy” at the closing market price of USD 8.50, as of September 19, 2022)

2.1 Company Details

2.2 Valuation and Technical Guidance

Note: This report may be updated with details around fundamental and technical analysis, price/ chart in due course, as appropriate 

Note 1: Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.

Note 2: The reference date for all price data, currency, technical indicators, support, and resistance levels is 19 September 2022. The reference data in this report has been partly sourced from REFINITIV.

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