Bloom Energy (NYSE:BE – Get Free Report) and Ormat Technologies (NYSE:ORA – Get Free Report) are both energy companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings and dividends.
Risk & Volatility
Bloom Energy has a beta of 3.07, meaning that its share price is 207% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ormat Technologies has a beta of 0.77, meaning that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for Bloom Energy and Ormat Technologies, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Bloom Energy | 3 | 10 | 11 | 2 | 2.46 |
| Ormat Technologies | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 2.80 |
Profitability
This table compares Bloom Energy and Ormat Technologies’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Bloom Energy | -4.37% | 8.38% | 2.05% |
| Ormat Technologies | 14.12% | 5.35% | 2.36% |
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Bloom Energy and Ormat Technologies”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Bloom Energy | $2.02 billion | 18.12 | -$88.43 million | ($0.38) | -408.05 |
| Ormat Technologies | $879.65 million | 8.47 | $123.73 million | $2.18 | 56.22 |
Ormat Technologies has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Bloom Energy. Bloom Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ormat Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
77.0% of Bloom Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.5% of Ormat Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 3.5% of Bloom Energy shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Ormat Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Ormat Technologies beats Bloom Energy on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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.
About Ormat Technologies
Ormat Technologies, Inc. engages in the geothermal and recovered energy power business in the United States, Indonesia, Kenya, Turkey, Chile, Guatemala, Guadeloupe, New Zealand, Honduras, and internationally. It operates in three segments: Electricity, Product, and Energy Storage. The Electricity segment develops, builds, owns, and operates geothermal, solar photovoltaic, and recovered energy-based power plants; and sells electricity. The Product segment designs, manufactures, and sells equipment for geothermal and recovered energy-based electricity generation; and provides services relating to the engineering, procurement, construction, operation, and maintenance of geothermal and recovered energy-based power plants. This segment serves contractors; and owners and operators of interstate natural gas pipelines, gas processing plants, and cement plants, as well as companies in other energy-intensive industrial processes. The Energy Storage segment offers battery energy storage systems and related services. Ormat Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Reno, Nevada.
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