PLUG vs. BE, NPWR, HOLI, THR, BLDP, FCEL, EAF, ENCP, HYZN, and HTOO
Should you be buying Plug Power stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Plug Power include Bloom Energy (BE), NET Power (NPWR), Hollysys Automation Technologies (HOLI), Thermon Group (THR), Ballard Power Systems (BLDP), FuelCell Energy (FCEL), GrafTech International (EAF), Energem (ENCP), Hyzon Motors (HYZN), and Fusion Fuel Green (HTOO). These companies are all part of the "electrical industrial apparatus" industry.
Plug Power (NASDAQ:PLUG) and Bloom Energy (NYSE:BE) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.
Plug Power received 497 more outperform votes than Bloom Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.34% of users gave Plug Power an outperform vote while only 60.72% of users gave Bloom Energy an outperform vote.
Plug Power currently has a consensus target price of $5.48, suggesting a potential upside of 120.24%. Bloom Energy has a consensus target price of $15.64, suggesting a potential upside of 7.78%. Given Plug Power's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Plug Power is more favorable than Bloom Energy.
Bloom Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Plug Power. Bloom Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Plug Power, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
43.5% of Plug Power shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.0% of Bloom Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of Plug Power shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.8% of Bloom Energy shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Plug Power has a beta of 1.81, meaning that its stock price is 81% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bloom Energy has a beta of 2.8, meaning that its stock price is 180% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Bloom Energy has a net margin of -22.27% compared to Plug Power's net margin of -181.96%. Bloom Energy's return on equity of -19.32% beat Plug Power's return on equity.
In the previous week, Plug Power had 9 more articles in the media than Bloom Energy. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Plug Power and 15 mentions for Bloom Energy. Bloom Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Plug Power's score of 0.22 indicating that Bloom Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Bloom Energy beats Plug Power on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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