SPWR vs. SOL, MAXN, CSIQ, JKS, SHLS, ALCC, SKE, GFR, WTI, and SOI
Should you be buying SunPower stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SunPower include Emeren Group (SOL), Maxeon Solar Technologies (MAXN), Canadian Solar (CSIQ), JinkoSolar (JKS), Shoals Technologies Group (SHLS), AltC Acquisition (ALCC), Skeena Resources (SKE), Greenfire Resources (GFR), W&T Offshore (WTI), and Solaris Oilfield Infrastructure (SOI). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Emeren Group (NYSE:SOL) and SunPower (NASDAQ:SPWR) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, community ranking and dividends.
Emeren Group presently has a consensus price target of $5.80, indicating a potential upside of 217.81%. SunPower has a consensus price target of $4.76, indicating a potential upside of 154.07%. Given SunPower's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Emeren Group is more favorable than SunPower.
Emeren Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than SunPower. Emeren Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SunPower, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Emeren Group has a beta of 1.78, meaning that its share price is 78% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SunPower has a beta of 1.73, meaning that its share price is 73% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SunPower received 438 more outperform votes than Emeren Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.24% of users gave SunPower an outperform vote while only 45.73% of users gave Emeren Group an outperform vote.
44.1% of Emeren Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.4% of SunPower shares are held by institutional investors. 18.0% of Emeren Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of SunPower shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Emeren Group has a net margin of -8.91% compared to Emeren Group's net margin of -14.15%. SunPower's return on equity of 0.26% beat Emeren Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, SunPower had 22 more articles in the media than Emeren Group. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for SunPower and 3 mentions for Emeren Group. SunPower's average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat Emeren Group's score of -0.43 indicating that Emeren Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Emeren Group beats SunPower on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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