PLUG vs. BE, HOLI, THR, BLDP, NPWR, EAF, FCEL, HYZN, ENCP, and HTOO
Should you be buying Plug Power stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Plug Power include Bloom Energy (BE), Hollysys Automation Technologies (HOLI), Thermon Group (THR), Ballard Power Systems (BLDP), NET Power (NPWR), GrafTech International (EAF), FuelCell Energy (FCEL), Hyzon Motors (HYZN), Energem (ENCP), and Fusion Fuel Green (HTOO). These companies are all part of the "electrical industrial apparatus" industry.
Bloom Energy (NYSE:BE) and Plug Power (NASDAQ:PLUG) are both mid-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends and earnings.
Bloom Energy presently has a consensus price target of $15.64, indicating a potential downside of 4.17%. Plug Power has a consensus price target of $5.49, indicating a potential upside of 64.82%. Given Bloom Energy's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Plug Power is more favorable than Bloom Energy.
Bloom Energy has a beta of 2.77, indicating that its stock price is 177% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Plug Power has a beta of 1.64, indicating that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Plug Power had 15 more articles in the media than Bloom Energy. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Plug Power and 8 mentions for Bloom Energy. Bloom Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Plug Power's score of 0.63 indicating that Plug Power is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Bloom Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Plug Power. Bloom Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Plug Power, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
77.0% of Bloom Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.5% of Plug Power shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.8% of Bloom Energy shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Plug Power shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Bloom Energy has a net margin of -22.27% compared to Bloom Energy's net margin of -181.96%. Plug Power's return on equity of -19.32% beat Bloom Energy's return on equity.
Plug Power received 499 more outperform votes than Bloom Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.37% of users gave Plug Power an outperform vote while only 60.88% of users gave Bloom Energy an outperform vote.
Summary
Bloom Energy beats Plug Power on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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