Analyzing NuScale Power (SMR) & Its Peers

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for NuScale Power and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
NuScale Power	4	8	4	1	2.12
NuScale Power Competitors	2185	5026	6972	420	2.39

NuScale Power presently has a consensus target price of $12.96, suggesting a potential upside of 50.51%. As a group, “Electrical Equipment” companies have a potential upside of 24.61%. Given NuScale Power’s higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe NuScale Power is more favorable than its competitors.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares NuScale Power and its competitors top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
NuScale Power	$10.69 million	-$355.79 million	-2.95
NuScale Power Competitors	$2.42 billion	$138.62 million	22.72

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

Volatility and Risk

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

Profitability

This table compares NuScale Power and its competitors’ 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	-217.86%	-115.34%	-8.78%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

78.4% of NuScale Power shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.2% of shares of all “Electrical Equipment” companies are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of NuScale Power shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.3% of shares of all “Electrical Equipment” companies are owned by company 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.

Summary

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

NuScale Power Company Profile

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.