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Acorn Energy (ACFN) Competitors

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$25.56 +1.61 (+6.72%)
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ACFN vs. PESI, OABI, TRVG, TCX, ARAI, ATLN, YMT, MXCT, PMTS, and RCMT

Should you be buying Acorn Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Acorn Energy include Perma-Fix Environmental Services (PESI), OmniAb (OABI), Trivago N.V. ADS (TRVG), Tucows (TCX), Arrive AI (ARAI), Atlantic International (ATLN), Yimutian (YMT), MaxCyte (MXCT), CPI Card Group (PMTS), and RCM Technologies (RCMT). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.

Acorn Energy vs. Its Competitors

Perma-Fix Environmental Services (NASDAQ:PESI) and Acorn Energy (NASDAQ:ACFN) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk and earnings.

Acorn Energy has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Perma-Fix Environmental Services. Perma-Fix Environmental Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Acorn Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Perma-Fix Environmental Services$60.02M4.29-$19.98M-$1.13-12.33
Acorn Energy$10.99M5.81$6.29M$2.849.00

25.5% of Perma-Fix Environmental Services shares are held by institutional investors. 8.9% of Perma-Fix Environmental Services shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 35.1% of Acorn Energy shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Perma-Fix Environmental Services
1 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.00
Acorn Energy
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Perma-Fix Environmental Services has a beta of 0.24, indicating that its share price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Acorn Energy has a beta of 0.14, indicating that its share price is 86% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Perma-Fix Environmental Services and Perma-Fix Environmental Services both had 2 articles in the media. Acorn Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.62 beat Perma-Fix Environmental Services' score of 0.30 indicating that Acorn Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Perma-Fix Environmental Services
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Acorn Energy
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

Acorn Energy has a net margin of 54.10% compared to Perma-Fix Environmental Services' net margin of -31.25%. Acorn Energy's return on equity of 57.23% beat Perma-Fix Environmental Services' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Perma-Fix Environmental Services-31.25% -21.73% -13.38%
Acorn Energy 54.10%57.23%27.30%

Summary

Acorn Energy beats Perma-Fix Environmental Services on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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ACFN vs. The Competition

MetricAcorn EnergyServices – Engineering, Accounting, Surveying IndustryServices SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$59.91M$59.91M$1.52B$10.68B
Dividend YieldN/AN/A6.35%4.82%
P/E Ratio9.009.004.7429.84
Price / Sales5.815.815.88131.17
Price / Cash29.9529.95181.1461.44
Price / Book11.4111.413.676.60
Net Income$6.29M$6.29M-$22.18M$276.82M
7 Day Performance5.79%5.79%-0.41%2.07%
1 Month Performance-10.35%-10.35%-12.87%2.62%
1 Year PerformanceN/AN/A-22.65%32.86%

Acorn Energy Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ACFN
Acorn Energy
1.2817 of 5 stars
$25.56
+6.7%
N/AN/A$59.91M$10.99M9.0020Positive News
Gap Down
PESI
Perma-Fix Environmental Services
0.1338 of 5 stars
$13.01
+3.5%
N/A-2.9%$240.30M$60.02M-11.51290News Coverage
Gap Down
OABI
OmniAb
1.7045 of 5 stars
$1.66
-2.4%
$6.67
+301.6%
-59.4%$238.97M$26.39M-2.777
TRVG
Trivago N.V. ADS
2.6153 of 5 stars
$3.08
flat
$4.18
+35.7%
+86.1%$216.76M$504.24M-308.00710News Coverage
TCX
Tucows
0.3267 of 5 stars
$18.15
+0.4%
N/A-1.3%$201.07M$362.27M-2.031,000News Coverage
ARAI
Arrive AI
N/A$5.77
+0.9%
N/AN/A$190.56MN/A0.007Analyst Forecast
ATLN
Atlantic International
0.1196 of 5 stars
$3.07
+2.0%
N/AN/A$179.21M$442.61M-1.407News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
YMT
Yimutian
N/A$1.55
+1.3%
N/AN/A$177.28MN/A0.00573
MXCT
MaxCyte
3.9771 of 5 stars
$1.61
-9.0%
$7.00
+334.8%
-57.6%$171.64M$38.63M-3.7480
PMTS
CPI Card Group
3.582 of 5 stars
$15.09
-1.2%
$34.00
+125.3%
-23.7%$171.08M$480.60M13.471,500News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
RCMT
RCM Technologies
3.5288 of 5 stars
$22.42
-3.7%
$33.50
+49.4%
+9.5%$166.14M$299.92M12.743,140

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This page (NASDAQ:ACFN) was last updated on 10/24/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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