Allient (NASDAQ:ALNT) and Bloom Energy (NYSE:BE) Financial Comparison

Bloom Energy (NYSE:BE) and Allient (NASDAQ:ALNT) are both industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, valuation, analyst recommendations and dividends.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

77.0% of Bloom Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.6% of Allient shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.0% of Bloom Energy shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 15.0% of Allient shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Bloom Energy	13.53%	45.29%	11.39%
Allient	4.98%	13.55%	7.05%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Bloom Energy and Allient, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Bloom Energy	1	13	11	1	2.46
Allient	0	3	3	0	2.50

Bloom Energy currently has a consensus price target of $263.05, suggesting a potential upside of 22.89%. Allient has a consensus price target of $84.00, suggesting a potential downside of 4.57%. Given Bloom Energy’s higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Bloom Energy is more favorable than Allient.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Bloom Energy and Allient”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Bloom Energy	$2.02 billion	31.27	-$88.43 million	$1.63	131.32
Allient	$554.48 million	2.70	$22.03 million	$1.70	51.78

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

Volatility and Risk

Bloom Energy has a beta of 3.63, suggesting that its stock price is 263% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Allient has a beta of 1.62, suggesting that its stock price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Bloom Energy beats Allient on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Bloom Energy

Bloom Energy Corporation designs, manufactures, sells, and installs solid-oxide fuel cell systems for on-site power generation in the United States and internationally. The company offers Bloom Energy Server, a solid oxide technology that converts fuel, such as natural gas, biogas, hydrogen, or a blend of these fuels into electricity through an electrochemical process without combustion. It sells its products through direct and indirect sales channels to utilities, data centers, agriculture, retail, hospitals, higher education, biotech, and manufacturing industries. The company was formerly known as Ion America Corp. and changed its name to Bloom Energy Corporation in 2006. Bloom Energy Corporation was incorporated in 2001 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

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.