HLGN vs. OPTT, WAVE, HGAS, MARPS, VVPR, ISUN, PEGY, NEWH, BNRG, and RCON
Should you be buying Heliogen stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Heliogen include Ocean Power Technologies (OPTT), Eco Wave Power Global AB (publ) (WAVE), Global Gas (HGAS), Marine Petroleum Trust (MARPS), VivoPower International (VVPR), iSun (ISUN), Pineapple Energy (PEGY), NewHydrogen (NEWH), Brenmiller Energy (BNRG), and Recon Technology (RCON). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Ocean Power Technologies (NASDAQ:OPTT) and Heliogen (NYSE:HLGN) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking and profitability.
Ocean Power Technologies received 209 more outperform votes than Heliogen when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.38% of users gave Ocean Power Technologies an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Heliogen an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Heliogen had 1 more articles in the media than Ocean Power Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Heliogen and 3 mentions for Ocean Power Technologies. Heliogen's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Ocean Power Technologies' score of 0.00 indicating that Ocean Power Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
11.9% of Ocean Power Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.6% of Heliogen shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Ocean Power Technologies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Heliogen shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Ocean Power Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Heliogen. Ocean Power Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Heliogen, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ocean Power Technologies has a beta of 2.14, suggesting that its stock price is 114% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Heliogen has a beta of 2.31, suggesting that its stock price is 131% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ocean Power Technologies has a net margin of -614.25% compared to Ocean Power Technologies' net margin of -830.91%. Heliogen's return on equity of -86.93% beat Ocean Power Technologies' return on equity.
Summary
Ocean Power Technologies beats Heliogen on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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