Financial Analysis: Allient (NASDAQ:ALNT) versus Brenmiller Energy (NASDAQ:BNRG)

Allient (NASDAQ:ALNT) and Brenmiller Energy (NASDAQ:BNRG) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends and institutional ownership.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current recommendations for Allient and Brenmiller Energy, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Allient	0	0	5	1	3.17
Brenmiller Energy	1	0	0	0	1.00

Allient presently has a consensus target price of $84.00, suggesting a potential downside of 16.41%. Given Allient’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Allient is more favorable than Brenmiller Energy.

Profitability

This table compares Allient and Brenmiller Energy’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Allient	4.98%	13.55%	7.05%
Brenmiller Energy	N/A	N/A	N/A

Risk & Volatility

Allient has a beta of 1.62, meaning that its stock price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brenmiller Energy has a beta of -0.6, meaning that its stock price is 160% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

61.6% of Allient shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.2% of Brenmiller Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 15.0% of Allient shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 38.1% of Brenmiller Energy 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.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Allient and Brenmiller Energy”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Allient	$554.48 million	3.08	$22.03 million	$1.70	59.11
Brenmiller Energy	$387,000.00	1.07	-$13.90 million	($262.42)	-0.01

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

Summary

Allient beats Brenmiller Energy on 14 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Allient

Allient Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and sells precision and specialty controlled motion components and systems for various industries in the United States, Canada, South America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. It offers brush and brushless DC motors, brushless servo and torque motors, coreless DC motors, integrated brushless motor-drives, gearmotors, gearing, modular digital servo drives, motion controllers, optical encoders, active and passive filters, input/output modules, industrial communications gateways, light-weighting technologies, and other controlled motion-related products, as well as nano precision positioning systems, servo control systems, and digital servo amplifiers and drives. The company sells its products to end customers and original equipment manufacturers in vehicle, medical, aerospace and defense, and industrial markets through direct sales force, authorized manufacturers’ representatives, and distributors. The company was formerly known as Allied Motion Technologies Inc. and changed its name to Allient Inc. in August 2023. Allient Inc. was incorporated in 1962 and is headquartered in Amherst, New York.

About Brenmiller Energy

Brenmiller Energy Ltd. develops, produces, markets, and sells thermal energy storage (TES) systems based on its proprietary technology that enables renewable integration, increases energy efficiency, and reduces carbon emissions. Its TES system dispatches thermal energy on demand in the form of steam, which can be saturated for industrial use, or in the form of a superheated steam, which can be used to activate steam turbines. It markets its proprietary TES systems under the bGen name. The company was formerly known as Brenmiller Energy Consulting Ltd. and changed its name to Brenmiller Energy Ltd. in 2017. Brenmiller Energy Ltd was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Rosh HaAyin, Israel.