SMR vs. XPEL, MEC, NTIC, CBAT, BW, NAAS, GRMN, CTSH, MCHP, and ROK
Should you be buying NuScale Power stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NuScale Power include XPEL (XPEL), Mayville Engineering (MEC), Northern Technologies International (NTIC), China BAK Battery (CBAT), Babcock (BW), NaaS Technology (NAAS), Garmin (GRMN), Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTSH), Microchip Technology (MCHP), and Rockwell Automation (ROK).
NuScale Power vs. Its Competitors
XPEL (NASDAQ:XPEL) and NuScale Power (NYSE:SMR) are both fabricated products companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
XPEL currently has a consensus price target of $58.00, indicating a potential upside of 47.38%. NuScale Power has a consensus price target of $31.57, indicating a potential downside of 12.24%. Given XPEL's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe XPEL is more favorable than NuScale Power.
75.1% of XPEL shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.4% of NuScale Power shares are held by institutional investors. 9.5% of XPEL shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of NuScale Power shares are held by company 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.
In the previous week, NuScale Power had 18 more articles in the media than XPEL. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for NuScale Power and 1 mentions for XPEL. XPEL's average media sentiment score of 1.82 beat NuScale Power's score of 0.51 indicating that XPEL is being referred to more favorably in the media.
XPEL has a beta of 1.83, meaning that its share price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NuScale Power has a beta of 2.04, meaning that its share price is 104% more volatile than the S&P 500.
XPEL has higher revenue and earnings than NuScale Power. NuScale Power is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than XPEL, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
XPEL has a net margin of 10.92% compared to NuScale Power's net margin of -273.36%. XPEL's return on equity of 21.89% beat NuScale Power's return on equity.
Summary
XPEL beats NuScale Power on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (NYSE:SMR) was last updated on 7/3/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
