Texas Pacific Land (NYSE:TPL – Get Free Report) and Clean Energy Technologies (NASDAQ:CETY – Get Free Report) are both energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, risk and valuation.
Volatility & Risk
Texas Pacific Land has a beta of 0.61, indicating that its stock price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Clean Energy Technologies has a beta of -1.49, indicating that its stock price is 249% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares Texas Pacific Land and Clean Energy Technologies’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Texas Pacific Land | 60.03% | 35.52% | 31.95% |
| Clean Energy Technologies | -263.45% | -94.40% | -38.97% |
Earnings and Valuation
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Texas Pacific Land | $798.19 million | 31.89 | $481.38 million | $7.30 | 50.56 |
| Clean Energy Technologies | $2.16 million | 4.78 | -$6.81 million | ($1.51) | -0.56 |
Texas Pacific Land has higher revenue and earnings than Clean Energy Technologies. Clean Energy Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Texas Pacific Land, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Texas Pacific Land and Clean Energy Technologies, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Texas Pacific Land | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Clean Energy Technologies | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
Texas Pacific Land presently has a consensus price target of $639.00, suggesting a potential upside of 73.12%. Given Texas Pacific Land’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Texas Pacific Land is more favorable than Clean Energy Technologies.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
59.9% of Texas Pacific Land shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.5% of Clean Energy Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 6.9% of Texas Pacific Land shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 37.5% of Clean Energy Technologies 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.
Summary
Texas Pacific Land beats Clean Energy Technologies on 13 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Texas Pacific Land
Texas Pacific Land Corporation engages in the land and resource management, and water services and operations businesses. The company owns a 1/128th nonparticipating perpetual oil and gas royalty interest (NPRI) under approximately 85,000 acres of land; a 1/16th NPRI under approximately 371,000 acres of land; and approximately 4,000 additional net royalty acres, total of approximately 195,000 NRA located in the western part of Texas. The Land and Resource Management segment manages surface acres of land, and oil and gas royalty interest in West Texas. This segment also engages in easements, such as transporting oil, gas and related hydrocarbons, power line and utility, and subsurface wellbore easements. In addition, this segment leases its land for processing, storage, and compression facilities and roads; and is involved in sale of materials, such as caliche, sand, and other material, as well as sells land. The Water Services and Operations segment provides full-service water offerings, including water sourcing, produced-water treatment, infrastructure development, and disposal solutions to operators in the Permian Basin. This segment also holds produced water royalties. Texas Pacific Land Corporation was founded in 1888 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
About Clean Energy Technologies
Clean Energy Technologies, Inc. designs, produces, and markets clean energy products and integrated solutions that focuses on energy efficiency and renewable energy in the United States. It operates through four segments: Clean Energy HRS and CETY Europe, CETY Renewables Waste to Energy Solutions, engineering and Manufacturing Business, and CETY HK. The company offers Clean Cycle, which generates electricity by recycling wasted heat produced in manufacturing, waste to energy, and power generation facilities. It also converts waste products created in manufacturing, agriculture, wastewater treatment plants, and other industries to electricity, renewable natural gas, hydrogen, and bio char. In addition, the company offers engineering, consulting, and project management solutions. Further, the company is involved in the sourcing and suppling of liquefied natural gas to industries and municipalities located in the southern part of Sichuan Province and portions of Yunnan Province. The company was formerly known as Probe Manufacturing, Inc. and changed its name to Clean Energy Technologies, Inc. in November 2015. Clean Energy Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Irvine, California. Clean Energy Technologies, Inc. is a subsidiary of MGW Investment I Ltd.
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