NuScale Power (NYSE:SMR) and SES AI (NYSE:SES) Head-To-Head Contrast

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for NuScale Power and SES AI, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	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 target price of $10.67, suggesting a potential upside of 88.96%. SES AI has a consensus target price of $2.55, suggesting a potential upside of 228.19%. Given SES AI’s higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe SES AI is more favorable than NuScale Power.

Earnings and Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
NuScale Power	$10.69 million	226.92	-$1.25 billion	($2.92)	-1.93
SES AI	$23.46 million	12.30	-$74.26 million	($0.20)	-3.88

SES AI has higher revenue and 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.

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	N/A	N/A	N/A
SES AI	N/A	N/A	N/A

Insider & Institutional Ownership

78.4% of NuScale Power shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.8% of SES AI shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of NuScale Power shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 13.8% of SES AI shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Volatility & Risk

NuScale Power has a beta of 2.36, indicating that its share price is 136% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SES AI has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

NuScale Power beats SES AI on 7 of the 12 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.