Talen Energy (NASDAQ:TLN – Get Free Report) and Fluence Energy (NASDAQ:FLNC – Get Free Report) are both energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and profitability.
Risk & Volatility
Talen Energy has a beta of 1.97, suggesting that its share price is 97% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fluence Energy has a beta of 2.88, suggesting that its share price is 188% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Talen Energy and Fluence Energy”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Talen Energy | $2.12 billion | 8.10 | $998.00 million | $4.62 | 81.13 |
| Fluence Energy | $2.26 billion | 1.60 | -$48.31 million | ($0.42) | -47.10 |
Talen Energy has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Fluence Energy. Fluence Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Talen Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for Talen Energy and Fluence Energy, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Talen Energy | 0 | 3 | 13 | 0 | 2.81 |
| Fluence Energy | 6 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 1.92 |
Talen Energy presently has a consensus price target of $395.21, suggesting a potential upside of 5.44%. Fluence Energy has a consensus price target of $13.54, suggesting a potential downside of 31.53%. Given Talen Energy’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Talen Energy is more favorable than Fluence Energy.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
0.4% of Talen Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.2% of Fluence Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Talen Energy shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Fluence Energy shares are held 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 Talen Energy and Fluence Energy’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Talen Energy | 9.83% | 13.52% | 2.99% |
| Fluence Energy | -2.14% | -9.21% | -2.17% |
Summary
Talen Energy beats Fluence Energy on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Talen Energy
Talen Energy Corporation is a U.S.-based energy and power generation company. The Company owns or controls approximately 16,000 megawatts of capacity in wholesale power markets, principally in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Southwest regions of the United States. The Company generates and sells electricity, capacity and related products from power plants that use fuel sources, such as nuclear, natural gas and coal. The Company’s Susquehanna nuclear power plant has approximately two boiling water reactors with a combined capacity of over 2,600 megawatts. Its fossil fuel plants are located in Athens, Barney Davis, Bayonne, Brandon Shores, Brunner Island, Camden, Colstrip and Dartmouth, among others. It has an art energy trading center located in Allentown, Pennsylvania (PA), where it manages asset load obligations, fuel supply, capacity and related products, and all supporting physical or financial transactions for its electric generation portfolio.
About Fluence Energy
Fluence Energy, Inc., through its subsidiaries, offers energy storage products and solution, services, and artificial intelligence enabled software-as-a-service products for renewables and storage applications in the Americas, the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The company sells energy storage products with integrated hardware, software, and digital intelligence. Its energy storage products include Gridstack Pro, a large-scale front-of-the-meter application; Gridstack, a front-of-the-meter application; Sunstack, a DC-coupled energy storage product for DC-coupled solar + storage projects; Edgestack, for smaller-scale commercial and industrial use cases; and Ultrastack, for critical system requirements of distribution and transmission networks. The company also provides engineering and delivery services to support the deployment of its storage products; operational and maintenance services; and digital applications. It serves independent power producers, developer, utilities, and other generators. Fluence Energy, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. Fluence Energy, Inc. is a joint venture of Siemens Aktiengesellschaft and The AES Corporation.
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