NextNRG (NASDAQ:NXXT – Get Free Report) and Ormat Technologies (NYSE:ORA – Get Free Report) are both energy companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, risk and dividends.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
10.6% of NextNRG shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.5% of Ormat Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 69.1% of NextNRG shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Ormat Technologies shares are held by 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.
Profitability
This table compares NextNRG and Ormat Technologies’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| NextNRG | -85.79% | N/A | -270.09% |
| Ormat Technologies | 14.12% | 5.35% | 2.36% |
Analyst Ratings
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| NextNRG | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2.50 |
| Ormat Technologies | 0 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 2.75 |
NextNRG presently has a consensus price target of $5.50, indicating a potential upside of 191.01%. Ormat Technologies has a consensus price target of $120.22, indicating a potential upside of 5.08%. Given NextNRG’s higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe NextNRG is more favorable than Ormat Technologies.
Risk & Volatility
NextNRG has a beta of -0.54, meaning that its stock price is 154% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ormat Technologies has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares NextNRG and Ormat Technologies”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| NextNRG | $27.77 million | 9.15 | -$16.19 million | ($2.02) | -0.94 |
| Ormat Technologies | $879.65 million | 7.91 | $123.73 million | $2.18 | 52.48 |
Ormat Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than NextNRG. NextNRG is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ormat Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Ormat Technologies beats NextNRG on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About NextNRG
NextNRG, Inc. engages in the provision of fuel delivery services. It provides app-based interface customers with the ability to select the time and location of their fueling. It offers diesel, red diesel, and REC-90. The company was founded by Yehuda Levy and Michael D. Farkas on March 28, 2019 and is headquartered in Miami, FL.
About Ormat Technologies
Ormat Technologies, Inc. engages in the geothermal and recovered energy power business in the United States, Indonesia, Kenya, Turkey, Chile, Guatemala, Guadeloupe, New Zealand, Honduras, and internationally. It operates in three segments: Electricity, Product, and Energy Storage. The Electricity segment develops, builds, owns, and operates geothermal, solar photovoltaic, and recovered energy-based power plants; and sells electricity. The Product segment designs, manufactures, and sells equipment for geothermal and recovered energy-based electricity generation; and provides services relating to the engineering, procurement, construction, operation, and maintenance of geothermal and recovered energy-based power plants. This segment serves contractors; and owners and operators of interstate natural gas pipelines, gas processing plants, and cement plants, as well as companies in other energy-intensive industrial processes. The Energy Storage segment offers battery energy storage systems and related services. Ormat Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Reno, Nevada.
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