Woodside Energy Group (NYSE:WDS) and Bloom Energy (NYSE:BE) Head to Head Review

Woodside Energy Group (NYSE:WDS) and Bloom Energy (NYSE:BE) are both large-cap energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, risk and dividends.

Volatility & Risk

Woodside Energy Group has a beta of 0.4, meaning that its stock price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bloom Energy has a beta of 3.01, meaning that its stock price is 201% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Woodside Energy Group and Bloom Energy”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Woodside Energy Group	$13.18 billion	2.41	$3.57 billion	N/A	N/A
Bloom Energy	$1.47 billion	23.21	-$29.23 million	N/A	N/A

Woodside Energy Group has higher revenue and earnings than Bloom Energy.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for Woodside Energy Group and Bloom Energy, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Woodside Energy Group	0	3	1	1	2.60
Bloom Energy	3	10	10	1	2.38

Bloom Energy has a consensus price target of $100.57, indicating a potential downside of 30.46%. Given Bloom Energy’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Bloom Energy is more favorable than Woodside Energy Group.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Woodside Energy Group	N/A	N/A	N/A
Bloom Energy	0.84%	8.74%	2.08%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

3.2% of Woodside Energy Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.0% of Bloom Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Woodside Energy Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.6% of Bloom Energy shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Bloom Energy beats Woodside Energy Group on 9 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Woodside Energy Group

Woodside Energy Group Ltd engages in the exploration, evaluation, development, production, and marketing of hydrocarbons in the Asia Pacific, Africa, the Americas, and the Europe. The company produces liquefied natural gas, pipeline gas, crude oil and condensate, and natural gas liquids. It holds interests in the Pluto LNG, North West Shelf, Wheatstone and Julimar-Brunello, Bass Strait, Ngujima-Yin FPSO, Okha FPSO, Pyrenees FPSO, Macedon, Shenzi, Mad dog, Greater Angostura, as well as Scarborough, Sangomar, Trion, Calypso, Browse, Liard, Atlantis, Woodside Solar opportunity, and Sunrise and Troubadour. The company involves in development of new energy products and carbon services. The company was formerly known as Woodside Petroleum Ltd and changed its name to Woodside Energy Group Ltd in May 2022. Woodside Energy Group Ltd was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Perth, Australia.

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.