Bloom Energy (NYSE:BE) versus Greenfire Resources (NYSE:GFR) Financial Survey

Greenfire Resources (NYSE:GFR) and Bloom Energy (NYSE:BE) are both energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk and earnings.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

88.9% of Greenfire Resources shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.0% of Bloom Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 20.0% of Greenfire Resources shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.6% of Bloom Energy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Greenfire Resources and Bloom Energy”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Greenfire Resources	$600.67 million	0.69	$88.61 million	$1.35	4.44
Bloom Energy	$2.02 billion	18.12	-$88.43 million	($0.38)	-408.05

Greenfire Resources has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Bloom Energy. Bloom Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Greenfire Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Risk and Volatility

Greenfire Resources has a beta of 0.29, meaning that its stock price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bloom Energy has a beta of 3.07, meaning that its stock price is 207% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Greenfire Resources and Bloom Energy’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Greenfire Resources	20.20%	15.64%	10.47%
Bloom Energy	-4.37%	8.38%	2.05%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for Greenfire Resources and Bloom Energy, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Greenfire Resources	1	1	0	0	1.50
Bloom Energy	3	11	11	1	2.38

Bloom Energy has a consensus price target of $128.29, suggesting a potential downside of 17.26%. Given Bloom Energy’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Bloom Energy is more favorable than Greenfire Resources.

Summary

Greenfire Resources beats Bloom Energy on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Greenfire Resources

Greenfire Resources Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the development, exploration, and operation of oil and gas properties in the Athabasca oil sands region of Alberta. The company operates the Tier-1 oil sands assets located in Western Canada. It utilizes steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) extraction technology, a situ thermal oil recovery process to recover diluted and non- diluted bitumen. The company is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

About Bloom Energy

Bloom Energy Corporation designs, manufactures, sells, and installs solid-oxide fuel cell systems for on-site power generation in the United States and internationally. The company offers Bloom Energy Server, a solid oxide technology that converts fuel, such as natural gas, biogas, hydrogen, or a blend of these fuels into electricity through an electrochemical process without combustion. It sells its products through direct and indirect sales channels to utilities, data centers, agriculture, retail, hospitals, higher education, biotech, and manufacturing industries. The company was formerly known as Ion America Corp. and changed its name to Bloom Energy Corporation in 2006. Bloom Energy Corporation was incorporated in 2001 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.