Contrasting NuScale Power (SMR) and Its Rivals

NuScale Power (NYSE:SMR) is one of 218 publicly-traded companies in the “Electrical Equipment” industry, but how does it contrast to its rivals? We will compare NuScale Power to related companies based on the strength of its valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, earnings and risk.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for NuScale Power and its rivals, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
NuScale Power	3	9	4	1	2.18
NuScale Power Competitors	2147	4983	6924	416	2.39

NuScale Power currently has a consensus target price of $13.50, indicating a potential upside of 37.59%. As a group, “Electrical Equipment” companies have a potential upside of 24.74%. Given NuScale Power’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe NuScale Power is more favorable than its rivals.

Volatility and Risk

NuScale Power has a beta of 2.26, suggesting that its stock price is 126% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NuScale Power’s rivals have a beta of -19.64, suggesting that their average stock price is 2,064% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

78.4% of NuScale Power shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.2% of shares of all “Electrical Equipment” companies are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of NuScale Power shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 15.0% of shares of all “Electrical Equipment” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares NuScale Power and its rivals revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
NuScale Power	$31.48 million	-$355.79 million	-3.36
NuScale Power Competitors	$2.31 billion	$137.32 million	20.26

NuScale Power’s rivals have higher revenue and earnings than NuScale Power. NuScale Power is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its rivals, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Profitability

This table compares NuScale Power and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
NuScale Power	-3,888.70%	-35.59%	-30.27%
NuScale Power Competitors	-218.83%	-207.77%	-8.81%

Summary

NuScale Power rivals beat NuScale Power on 8 of the 13 factors compared.

NuScale Power Company Profile

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.