Nextpower (NASDAQ:NXT) and Nano Nuclear Energy (NASDAQ:NNE) Financial Analysis

Nano Nuclear Energy (NASDAQ:NNE) and Nextpower (NASDAQ:NXT) are both industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.

Risk and Volatility

Nano Nuclear Energy has a beta of 5.42, indicating that its stock price is 442% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nextpower has a beta of 1.95, indicating that its stock price is 95% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Nano Nuclear Energy and Nextpower”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Nano Nuclear Energy	N/A	N/A	-$40.07 million	($0.69)	-28.49
Nextpower	$3.56 billion	4.33	$585.88 million	$3.86	26.29

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

Insider and Institutional Ownership

67.4% of Nextpower shares are owned by institutional investors. 18.6% of Nano Nuclear Energy shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Nextpower shares are owned by 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.

Profitability

This table compares Nano Nuclear Energy and Nextpower’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Nano Nuclear Energy	N/A	-6.66%	-6.55%
Nextpower	16.36%	26.29%	15.02%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings for Nano Nuclear Energy and Nextpower, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Nano Nuclear Energy	1	2	3	1	2.57
Nextpower	0	4	22	1	2.89

Nano Nuclear Energy currently has a consensus target price of $39.00, indicating a potential upside of 98.37%. Nextpower has a consensus target price of $146.12, indicating a potential upside of 44.00%. Given Nano Nuclear Energy’s higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Nano Nuclear Energy is more favorable than Nextpower.

Summary

Nextpower beats Nano Nuclear Energy on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Nano Nuclear Energy

NANO Nuclear Energy, Inc. is a microreactor and nuclear technology company, which provides supply energy services. Its products in technical development are ZEUS, a solid core battery reactor, and ODIN, a low-pressure coolant reactor. The company is founded by Jiang Yu in February, 2022 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

About Nextpower

Nextpower, formerly known as Nextracker, an energy solutions company, provides solar trackers and software solutions for utility-scale and distributed generation solar projects in the United States and internationally. The company offers tracking solutions, which includes NX Horizon, a solar tracking solution; and NX Horizon-XTR, a terrain-following tracker designed to expand the addressable market for trackers on sites with sloped, uneven, and challenging terrain. It also provides TrueCapture, a self-adjusting tracker control system, which boosts solar power plant production by optimizing the position of individual tracker row in response to site features, such as varying topography and changing weather conditions; and NX Navigator, that assists solar power plant owners and operators in monitoring, controlling, and protecting their solar projects. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Fremont, California. As of March 31, 2024 Nextracker Inc. (Nextpower) was formerly a subsidiary of Flex Ltd.