Contrasting Enlight Renewable Energy (NASDAQ:ENLT) & Otter Tail (NASDAQ:OTTR)

Enlight Renewable Energy (NASDAQ:ENLT) and Otter Tail (NASDAQ:OTTR) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings and risk.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings for Enlight Renewable Energy and Otter Tail, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Enlight Renewable Energy	0	2	2	0	2.50
Otter Tail	1	1	0	0	1.50

Enlight Renewable Energy currently has a consensus target price of $18.50, suggesting a potential upside of 8.95%. Otter Tail has a consensus target price of $68.00, suggesting a potential downside of 19.32%. Given Enlight Renewable Energy’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Enlight Renewable Energy is more favorable than Otter Tail.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

38.9% of Enlight Renewable Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.3% of Otter Tail shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of Otter Tail shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Enlight Renewable Energy and Otter Tail’s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Enlight Renewable Energy	$255.70 million	7.68	$70.92 million	$0.57	29.79
Otter Tail	$1.35 billion	2.61	$294.19 million	$7.00	12.04

Otter Tail has higher revenue and earnings than Enlight Renewable Energy. Otter Tail is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Enlight Renewable Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Volatility and Risk

Enlight Renewable Energy has a beta of 1.84, meaning that its stock price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Otter Tail has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Enlight Renewable Energy and Otter Tail’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Enlight Renewable Energy	27.74%	5.05%	1.68%
Otter Tail	21.81%	21.64%	9.41%

About Enlight Renewable Energy

Enlight Renewable Energy Ltd operates a renewable energy platform in Israel, Central-Eastern Europe, Western Europe, and the United States. The company develops, finances, constructs, owns, and operates utility-scale renewable energy projects. It develops wind energy and solar energy projects, as well as energy storage projects. The company was incorporated in 1981 and is headquartered in Rosh Haayin, Israel.

About Otter Tail

Otter Tail Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in electric utility, manufacturing, and plastic pipe businesses in the United States. It operates through three segments: Electric, Manufacturing, and Plastics. The Electric segment produces, transmits, distributes, and sells electric energy in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota; and operates as a participant in the Midcontinent Independent System Operator markets. This segment generates electricity through coal, fuel oil, solar, wind, and natural gas. It serves approximately residential, commercial, and industrial customers. The Manufacturing segment engages in the contract machining, metal parts stamping, fabrication and painting, production of plastic thermoformed horticultural containers, life science and industrial packaging, and material handling components and extruded raw material stock for the recreational vehicle, lawn and garden, agricultural, construction, and industrial and energy equipment end markets. The Plastics segment manufactures polyvinyl chloride pipes for municipal water, rural water, wastewater, storm drainage and water reclamation system, and other uses for customers in the horticulture, medical and life sciences, industrial, recreation, and electronics industries. This segment markets its products to wholesalers and distributors through independent sales representatives, company salespersons, and customer service representatives. The company was formerly known as Otter Tail Power Company and changed its name to Otter Tail Corporation in 2001. Otter Tail Corporation was founded in 1907 and is headquartered in Fergus Falls, Minnesota.