BE vs. NPWR, RUN, USAC, CEIX, NS, BTU, AY, NEP, KOS, and ARLP
Should you be buying Bloom Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bloom Energy include NET Power (NPWR), Sunrun (RUN), USA Compression Partners (USAC), CONSOL Energy (CEIX), NuStar Energy (NS), Peabody Energy (BTU), Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure (AY), NextEra Energy Partners (NEP), Kosmos Energy (KOS), and Alliance Resource Partners (ARLP). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
NET Power (NYSE:NPWR) and Bloom Energy (NYSE:BE) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation and dividends.
NET Power has a beta of -0.07, indicating that its share price is 107% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bloom Energy has a beta of 2.77, indicating that its share price is 177% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Bloom Energy had 2 more articles in the media than NET Power. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Bloom Energy and 5 mentions for NET Power. NET Power's average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat Bloom Energy's score of 0.07 indicating that Bloom Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Bloom Energy received 245 more outperform votes than NET Power when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.99% of users gave Bloom Energy an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave NET Power an outperform vote.
53.6% of NET Power shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.0% of Bloom Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 20.0% of NET Power shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.5% of Bloom Energy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
NET Power presently has a consensus price target of $21.33, indicating a potential upside of 96.98%. Bloom Energy has a consensus price target of $16.69, indicating a potential upside of 41.84%. Given Bloom Energy's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe NET Power is more favorable than Bloom Energy.
NET Power has a net margin of 0.00% compared to NET Power's net margin of -22.66%. NET Power's return on equity of -23.88% beat Bloom Energy's return on equity.
NET Power has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Bloom Energy.
Summary
Bloom Energy beats NET Power on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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