ClearSign Technologies (NASDAQ:CLIR – Get Free Report) and Komatsu (OTCMKTS:KMTUY – Get Free Report) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.
Profitability
This table compares ClearSign Technologies and Komatsu’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| ClearSign Technologies | -96.07% | -58.08% | -44.61% |
| Komatsu | 8.93% | 10.51% | 5.93% |
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for ClearSign Technologies and Komatsu, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| ClearSign Technologies | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Komatsu | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2.00 |
Insider and Institutional Ownership
24.0% of ClearSign Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.2% of Komatsu shares are held by institutional investors. 5.2% of ClearSign Technologies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of Komatsu shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares ClearSign Technologies and Komatsu”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| ClearSign Technologies | $5.23 million | 4.75 | -$5.50 million | ($0.91) | -4.01 |
| Komatsu | $27.45 billion | 1.60 | $2.48 billion | $2.73 | 17.32 |
Komatsu has higher revenue and earnings than ClearSign Technologies. ClearSign Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Komatsu, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Risk and Volatility
ClearSign Technologies has a beta of 1.43, meaning that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Komatsu has a beta of 1.06, meaning that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Komatsu beats ClearSign Technologies on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
About ClearSign Technologies
ClearSign Technologies Corporation designs and develops products and technologies to enhance emission and operational performance, energy efficiency, emission reduction, safety, and overall cost-effectiveness of industrial and commercial systems in the United States, the People's Republic of China, and Hong Kong. The company's technologies include ClearSign core burner technology consists of an industrial burner body and a downstream porous ceramic or metal flame stabilizing structure; ClearSign core process burner technology that provides a direct burner replacement for traditional refinery process heaters; ClearSign core boiler burner technology; ClearSign core flaring burners that can be used individually, or in combination, to provide a flare product with extremely low nitrogen oxide emissions; and ClearSign eye flame sensor, an electrical flame sensor for industrial applications. It serves energy, institutional, commercial and industrial boiler, chemical, and petrochemical industries. The company was formerly known as ClearSign Combustion Corporation and changed its name ClearSign Technologies Corporation in November 2019. ClearSign Technologies Corporation was incorporated in 2008 and is headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
About Komatsu
Komatsu Ltd. manufactures and sells construction, mining, and utility equipment in Japan, the Americas, Europe, China, Rest of Asia, Oceania, the Middle East, Africa, and CIS countries. It operates through three segments: Construction, Mining and Utility Equipment; Retail Finance; and Industrial Machinery and Others. The company offers construction and mining equipment, including excavators, wheel loaders, bulldozers, motor graders, dump truck, rope and hybrid shovels, electric wheel loaders, continuous miners, and jumbo drills. It also provides forestry equipment, including harvesters, forwarders, feller bunchers, excavators, mini excavators, and forklifts; demolition, waste, and recycling equipment, such as mobile crushers, hydraulic excavators, wheel loaders, and mini shovels; material handling equipment; and tunnel-boring machines, pipe layers, towing tractors, and engines. In addition, the company offers industrial machinery, including presses, sheet-metal machinery, 3D laser cutting machine, transfer machines, battery manufacturing equipment, wire saws, thermos modules, thermoelectric generation module, and temperature control products; quarry equipment; agricultural and livestock equipment; EH sensor device; iron and steel casting products; and logistics equipment. Further, the company provides retail financing; construction machinery rental services; remanufactured products; other support services; transportation, warehousing, packing, and other services; and purchases and sells used equipment. Komatsu Ltd. was founded in 1884 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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