Head-To-Head Comparison: NuScale Power (SMR) versus Its Competitors

NuScale Power (NYSE:SMR) is one of 218 public companies in the “Electrical Equipment” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare NuScale Power to similar companies based on the strength of its valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, dividends and profitability.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares NuScale Power and its competitors revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
NuScale Power	$31.48 million	-$355.79 million	-3.74
NuScale Power Competitors	$2.30 billion	$135.95 million	20.68

NuScale Power’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than NuScale Power. NuScale Power is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Volatility and Risk

NuScale Power has a beta of 2.3, suggesting that its stock price is 130% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NuScale Power’s competitors have a beta of -19.47, suggesting that their average stock price is 2,047% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for NuScale Power and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
NuScale Power	3	9	4	1	2.18
NuScale Power Competitors	2162	5001	6947	417	2.39

NuScale Power presently has a consensus price target of $13.50, suggesting a potential upside of 23.46%. As a group, “Electrical Equipment” companies have a potential upside of 21.49%. Given NuScale Power’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe NuScale Power is more favorable than its competitors.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

78.4% of NuScale Power shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.1% of shares of all “Electrical Equipment” companies are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of NuScale Power shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 15.0% of shares of all “Electrical Equipment” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares NuScale Power and its competitors’ 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%
NuScale Power Competitors	-218.47%	-87.35%	-8.79%

Summary

NuScale Power competitors beat NuScale Power on 8 of the 13 factors compared.

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.