Head to Head Survey: Blink Charging (NASDAQ:BLNK) vs. Vertiv (NYSE:VRT)

Blink Charging (NASDAQ:BLNK) and Vertiv (NYSE:VRT) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation and earnings.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

44.6% of Blink Charging shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.9% of Vertiv shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Blink Charging shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Vertiv 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.

Risk & Volatility

Blink Charging has a beta of 2.07, suggesting that its stock price is 107% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vertiv has a beta of 2.07, suggesting that its stock price is 107% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Blink Charging and Vertiv, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Blink Charging	1	1	1	0	2.00
Vertiv	0	4	22	2	2.93

Blink Charging currently has a consensus price target of $2.50, suggesting a potential upside of 365.55%. Vertiv has a consensus price target of $357.83, suggesting a potential upside of 48.66%. Given Blink Charging’s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Blink Charging is more favorable than Vertiv.

Profitability

This table compares Blink Charging and Vertiv’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Blink Charging	-52.24%	-57.97%	-25.95%
Vertiv	15.09%	50.47%	15.87%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Blink Charging and Vertiv”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Blink Charging	$103.52 million	0.75	-$83.39 million	($0.40)	-1.34
Vertiv	$10.23 billion	9.06	$1.33 billion	$4.42	54.46

Vertiv has higher revenue and earnings than Blink Charging. Blink Charging is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vertiv, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Vertiv beats Blink Charging on 12 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Blink Charging

Blink Charging Co., through its subsidiaries, owns, operates, manufactures, and provides electric vehicle (EV) charging equipment and networked EV charging services in the United States and internationally. The company offers residential and commercial EV charging equipment that enable EV drivers to recharge at various location types. It also provides Blink Network, a cloud-based system that operates, maintains, and manages various Blink charging stations and associated charging data, back-end operations, and payment processing, as well as offers fleets, property owners, managers, parking companies, and state and municipal entities with cloud-based services that enable the remote monitoring and management of EV charging stations; and EV drivers with station information, including station location, availability, and applicable fees. In addition, the company offers EV charging hardware, software services, and service plans. It has strategic partnerships across transit/destination locations, including airports, auto dealers, healthcare/medicals, hotels, mixed-use and municipal locations, multifamily residential and condos, parks and recreation areas, parking lots, religious institutions, restaurants, retailers, schools and universities, stadiums, supermarkets, transportation hubs, and workplace locations. Blink Charging Co. was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Bowie, Maryland.

About Vertiv

Vertiv Holdings Co, together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and services critical digital infrastructure technologies and life cycle services for data centers, communication networks, and commercial and industrial environments in the Americas, the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. It offers AC and DC power management products, switchgear and busbar products, thermal management products, integrated rack systems, modular solutions, and management systems for monitoring and controlling digital infrastructure that are integral to the technologies used for various services, including e-commerce, online banking, file sharing, video on-demand, energy storage, wireless communications, Internet of Things, and online gaming. The company also provides lifecycle management services, predictive analytics, and professional services for deploying, maintaining, and optimizing its products and their related systems; and preventative maintenance, acceptance testing, engineering and consulting, performance assessments, remote monitoring, training, spare parts, and digital critical infrastructure software services. It offers its products primarily under the Vertiv, Liebert, NetSure, Geist, E&I, Powerbar, and Avocent brands. The company serves cloud services, financial services, healthcare, transportation, manufacturing, energy, education, government, social media, and retail industries through a network of direct sales professionals, independent sales representatives, channel partners, and original equipment manufacturers. Vertiv Holdings Co is headquartered in Westerville, Ohio.