NuScale Power (NYSE:SMR – Get Free Report) and Allient (NASDAQ:ALNT – Get Free Report) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, valuation, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
78.4% of NuScale Power shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.6% of Allient shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of NuScale Power shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.0% of Allient shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for NuScale Power and Allient, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| NuScale Power | 4 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2.12 |
| Allient | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3.00 |
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares NuScale Power and Allient”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| NuScale Power | $31.48 million | 106.41 | -$355.79 million | ($2.92) | -2.67 |
| Allient | $554.48 million | 3.55 | $22.03 million | $1.70 | 68.21 |
Allient has higher revenue and earnings than NuScale Power. NuScale Power is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Allient, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares NuScale Power and Allient’s 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% |
| Allient | 4.98% | 13.55% | 7.05% |
Volatility and Risk
NuScale Power has a beta of 2.36, indicating that its stock price is 136% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Allient has a beta of 1.58, indicating that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Allient beats NuScale Power on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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.
About Allient
Allient Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and sells precision and specialty controlled motion components and systems for various industries in the United States, Canada, South America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. It offers brush and brushless DC motors, brushless servo and torque motors, coreless DC motors, integrated brushless motor-drives, gearmotors, gearing, modular digital servo drives, motion controllers, optical encoders, active and passive filters, input/output modules, industrial communications gateways, light-weighting technologies, and other controlled motion-related products, as well as nano precision positioning systems, servo control systems, and digital servo amplifiers and drives. The company sells its products to end customers and original equipment manufacturers in vehicle, medical, aerospace and defense, and industrial markets through direct sales force, authorized manufacturers’ representatives, and distributors. The company was formerly known as Allied Motion Technologies Inc. and changed its name to Allient Inc. in August 2023. Allient Inc. was incorporated in 1962 and is headquartered in Amherst, New York.
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