Head to Head Analysis: NuScale Power (SMR) versus The Competition

NuScale Power (NYSE:SMR) is one of 218 publicly-traded companies in the “Electrical Equipment” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its rivals? We will compare NuScale Power to similar businesses based on the strength of its institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, valuation, risk and profitability.

Risk & Volatility

NuScale Power has a beta of 2.3, meaning that its share price is 130% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NuScale Power’s rivals have a beta of -19.47, meaning that their average share price is 2,047% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

78.4% of NuScale Power shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.1% of shares of all “Electrical Equipment” companies are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of NuScale Power shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.0% of shares of all “Electrical Equipment” companies are held by company 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.

Profitability

This table compares NuScale Power and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
NuScale Power	-3,888.70%	-35.59%	-30.27%
NuScale Power Competitors	-217.90%	-115.50%	-8.84%

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for NuScale Power and its rivals, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
NuScale Power	4	8	4	1	2.12
NuScale Power Competitors	2179	5013	6960	420	2.39

NuScale Power presently has a consensus price target of $12.96, indicating a potential upside of 54.05%. As a group, “Electrical Equipment” companies have a potential upside of 30.60%. Given NuScale Power’s higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe NuScale Power is more favorable than its rivals.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares NuScale Power and its rivals revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
NuScale Power	$31.48 million	-$355.79 million	-2.88
NuScale Power Competitors	$2.32 billion	$137.32 million	21.31

NuScale Power’s rivals have higher revenue and earnings than NuScale Power. NuScale Power is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its rivals, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Summary

NuScale Power rivals beat NuScale Power on 8 of the 13 factors compared.

About NuScale Power

NuScale Power Corporation engages in the development and sale of modular light water reactor nuclear power plants to supply energy for electrical generation, district heating, desalination, hydrogen production, and other process heat applications. It offers NuScale Power Module (NPM), a water reactor that can generate 77 megawatts of electricity (MWe); and VOYGR power plant designs for three facility sizes that are capable of housing from one to four and six or twelve NPMs. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon. NuScale Power Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Fluor Enterprises, Inc.