OPAL vs. CTRI, KEN, CEPU, EDN, NNE, NEP, XIFR, AMPS, NFE, and NGL
Should you be buying OPAL Fuels stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of OPAL Fuels include Centuri (CTRI), Kenon (KEN), Central Puerto (CEPU), Empresa Distribuidora y Comercializadora Norte Sociedad Anónima (EDN), Nano Nuclear Energy (NNE), Nextera Energy Partners (NEP), XPLR Infrastructure (XIFR), Altus Power (AMPS), New Fortress Energy (NFE), and NGL Energy Partners (NGL). These companies are all part of the "utilities" industry.
OPAL Fuels vs.
Centuri (NYSE:CTRI) and OPAL Fuels (NASDAQ:OPAL) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, dividends, profitability, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Centuri currently has a consensus target price of $19.00, indicating a potential downside of 15.57%. OPAL Fuels has a consensus target price of $3.00, indicating a potential downside of 8.54%. Given OPAL Fuels' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe OPAL Fuels is more favorable than Centuri.
Centuri has a beta of 1.06, meaning that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, OPAL Fuels has a beta of 1.21, meaning that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
OPAL Fuels has a net margin of 3.30% compared to Centuri's net margin of -8.90%. OPAL Fuels' return on equity of -4.08% beat Centuri's return on equity.
OPAL Fuels has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Centuri. OPAL Fuels is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Centuri, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
12.2% of OPAL Fuels shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Centuri shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 84.6% of OPAL Fuels shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
OPAL Fuels received 9 more outperform votes than Centuri when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.00% of users gave OPAL Fuels an outperform vote while only 45.00% of users gave Centuri an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Centuri had 2 more articles in the media than OPAL Fuels. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Centuri and 1 mentions for OPAL Fuels. Centuri's average media sentiment score of 1.61 beat OPAL Fuels' score of 0.00 indicating that Centuri is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
OPAL Fuels beats Centuri on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:OPAL) was last updated on 6/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff