Blink Charging (NASDAQ:BLNK – Get Free Report) and NuScale Power (NYSE:SMR – Get Free Report) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends and profitability.
Volatility & Risk
Blink Charging has a beta of 2.07, indicating that its share price is 107% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NuScale Power has a beta of 2.36, indicating that its share price is 136% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
44.6% of Blink Charging shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.4% of NuScale Power shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Blink Charging shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of NuScale Power shares are owned by 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.
Analyst Ratings
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Blink Charging | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
| NuScale Power | 4 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2.12 |
Blink Charging currently has a consensus price target of $2.50, indicating a potential upside of 437.52%. NuScale Power has a consensus price target of $12.96, indicating a potential upside of 79.95%. Given Blink Charging’s higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Blink Charging is more favorable than NuScale Power.
Profitability
This table compares Blink Charging and NuScale Power’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Blink Charging | -52.24% | -57.97% | -25.95% |
| NuScale Power | -3,888.70% | -35.59% | -30.27% |
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Blink Charging and NuScale Power”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Blink Charging | $103.52 million | 0.65 | -$83.39 million | ($0.40) | -1.16 |
| NuScale Power | $31.48 million | 98.33 | -$355.79 million | ($2.92) | -2.47 |
Blink Charging has higher revenue and earnings than NuScale Power. NuScale Power is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Blink Charging, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Blink Charging beats NuScale Power on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Blink Charging
Blink Charging Co., through its subsidiaries, owns, operates, manufactures, and provides electric vehicle (EV) charging equipment and networked EV charging services in the United States and internationally. The company offers residential and commercial EV charging equipment that enable EV drivers to recharge at various location types. It also provides Blink Network, a cloud-based system that operates, maintains, and manages various Blink charging stations and associated charging data, back-end operations, and payment processing, as well as offers fleets, property owners, managers, parking companies, and state and municipal entities with cloud-based services that enable the remote monitoring and management of EV charging stations; and EV drivers with station information, including station location, availability, and applicable fees. In addition, the company offers EV charging hardware, software services, and service plans. It has strategic partnerships across transit/destination locations, including airports, auto dealers, healthcare/medicals, hotels, mixed-use and municipal locations, multifamily residential and condos, parks and recreation areas, parking lots, religious institutions, restaurants, retailers, schools and universities, stadiums, supermarkets, transportation hubs, and workplace locations. Blink Charging Co. was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Bowie, Maryland.
About NuScale Power
NuScale Power Corporation engages in the development and sale of modular light water reactor nuclear power plants to supply energy for electrical generation, district heating, desalination, hydrogen production, and other process heat applications. It offers NuScale Power Module (NPM), a water reactor that can generate 77 megawatts of electricity (MWe); and VOYGR power plant designs for three facility sizes that are capable of housing from one to four and six or twelve NPMs. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon. NuScale Power Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Fluor Enterprises, Inc.
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