Shoals Technologies Group (NASDAQ:SHLS) and Enovix (NASDAQ:ENVX) Head to Head Review

Shoals Technologies Group (NASDAQ:SHLS) and Enovix (NASDAQ:ENVX) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Shoals Technologies Group and Enovix, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Shoals Technologies Group	0	7	11	0	2.61
Enovix	2	3	6	1	2.50

Shoals Technologies Group currently has a consensus target price of $10.67, suggesting a potential upside of 37.46%. Enovix has a consensus target price of $10.77, suggesting a potential upside of 301.97%. Given Enovix’s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Enovix is more favorable than Shoals Technologies Group.

Profitability

This table compares Shoals Technologies Group and Enovix’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Shoals Technologies Group	5.41%	10.07%	6.38%
Enovix	-473.89%	-64.50%	-19.31%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

50.9% of Enovix shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Shoals Technologies Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 12.7% of Enovix shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility & Risk

Shoals Technologies Group has a beta of 1.85, meaning that its stock price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Enovix has a beta of 2.49, meaning that its stock price is 149% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Shoals Technologies Group and Enovix”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Shoals Technologies Group	$475.33 million	2.75	$33.57 million	$0.19	40.84
Enovix	$35.88 million	16.39	-$156.74 million	($0.81)	-3.31

Shoals Technologies Group has higher revenue and earnings than Enovix. Enovix is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Shoals Technologies Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Shoals Technologies Group beats Enovix on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Shoals Technologies Group

Shoals Technologies Group, Inc. provides electrical balance of system (EBOS) solutions and components for solar, battery energy, and electric vehicle (EV) charging applications in the United States and internationally. The company designs, manufactures, and sells system solutions for both homerun and combine-as-you-go wiring architectures, as well as offers technical support services. It provides EBOS components, including combiners; plug-n-play branch connectors and inline fuses; AC disconnects; recombiners; wireless monitoring; junction boxes; wire management; EV power cabinets; and battery energy storage systems cabinets, as well as cable assemblies, transition enclosures, and splice boxes. In addition, the company offers eMobility solutions, such as a power center, which combines equipment needed to protect the charging equipment and transform voltage levels from the electric utility to those needed on the respective site; quick connect solutions for chargers to connect to the Shoals system; big lead assembly (BLA) technology in the EV space to connect multiple chargers to a single power center; and a raceway system that protects the above ground EV BLAs in walk over and drive over applications. Further, it provides Snapshot IV, a solar operations and maintenance solution that monitors the specific voltage and current of individual solar panels and compares the results against the manufacturer's projected performance. The company sells its products to engineering, procurement, and construction firms that build solar energy projects; utilities; solar developers, independent power producers; solar module manufacturers; and charge point operators. Shoals Technologies Group, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Portland, Tennessee.

About Enovix

Enovix Corporation designs develops and manufactures silicon-anode lithium-ion batteries. It serves wearables and IoT, smartphone, laptops and tablets, industrial and medical, and electric vehicles industries. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Fremont, California.