SES AI (NYSE:SES) and NuScale Power (NYSE:SMR) Financial Contrast

NuScale Power (NYSE:SMR) and SES AI (NYSE:SES) are both industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings and institutional ownership.

Volatility & Risk

NuScale Power has a beta of 2.42, indicating that its share price is 142% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SES AI has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings for NuScale Power and SES AI, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
NuScale Power	4	7	4	1	2.12
SES AI	1	1	1	0	2.00

NuScale Power presently has a consensus price target of $10.67, indicating a potential upside of 89.80%. SES AI has a consensus price target of $2.55, indicating a potential upside of 221.40%. Given SES AI’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe SES AI is more favorable than NuScale Power.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares NuScale Power and SES AI”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
NuScale Power	$31.48 million	76.72	-$355.79 million	($2.92)	-1.92
SES AI	$21.00 million	14.03	-$73.04 million	($0.20)	-3.97

SES AI has lower revenue, but higher earnings than NuScale Power. SES AI is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NuScale Power, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

78.4% of NuScale Power shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.8% of SES AI shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of NuScale Power shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.7% of SES AI shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares NuScale Power and SES AI’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%
SES AI	-289.64%	-26.21%	-20.78%

Summary

NuScale Power beats SES AI on 8 of the 15 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 SES AI

SES AI Corporation engages in the development and production of high-performance Lithium-metal rechargeable batteries for electric vehicles, electric vehicle take-off and landing, and other applications. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts.